By Margarita Tartakovsky, MS
Does how you look make you feel unworthy of love, satisfying relationships, a good job or true happiness?
Most of us can list at least five things that would change for the “better” if we were trim and toned. For instance:
1. I’d be happier
2. I’d be prettier
3. I’d be popular
4. I’d be more confident
5. I’d finally like myself
For most of my life, I wanted to look different, and that different included being thin. Even when I got there my sophomore year of college, I was so afraid of losing my almost stick-thin status that I restricted and then overate and tried to exercise not for health’s sake but because I wanted to shed more pounds. I’d wake up to a pitch-black morning, drag myself out of my warm bed, and run from my apartment to the one-room gym a few minutes away. I was miserable. And, not surprisingly, that lasted all of one week.
