Ep 092 - Do you compare your body to your past self?

<p>Welcome to How to Love Your Body - today on the podcast we will be talking about comparing your body to your PAST body, this is the most challenging comparison that women come to us struggling with.</p> <p>To work on this and find some healing for yourself be sure to grab your free worksheet here <a href='http://www.thebodylovesociety.com/92'>www.thebodylovesociety.com/92</a></p> <p>When we ask about comparison women say the hardest thing to move on from is comparison to their past bodies.</p> <p>And that makes sense, we create an identity for ourselves as we live our lives and a big part of that (sadly) is based around the way we look. So a couple decades later when we look different, it can feel very uncomfortable.</p> <p>Who are we now if we aren’t the fit one, the thin one, the super healthy one, or even the one always trying to lose weight.</p> <p>Even though these things really are so minor in WHO we are, we base a lot of our self worth/ identity around these things.</p> <p>If we are constantly comparing our bodies to our past bodies, it’s almost impossible to find peace now.</p> <p>So how do we deal with this?</p> <p>One great tool is to create a mindset shift using a different aspect of your life from your past that has changed (when we focus on weight and body it can be hard to see clearly and it is a very emotional subject in our weight obsessed culture).</p> <p>For instance:</p> <p>(Lauren shares her life as a past athlete)</p> <p>(Jenna shares her life as a past model) </p> <p>Yes, these times in our past had a lot of positives, we look back at them lovingly, but they are in the past and there’s no way to change that. Our lives are different now, we grew up, started families, found work we loved. A lot has changed and there are losses to that and things that we have gained.</p> <p>It’s the same with our bodies - whether it was a time of restriction and it was really hard for you or whether your body has just naturally changed over the years, there are things you’ve lost an