Every new year, there is an influx of weight-loss goals, new diets or ‘lifestyle changes’ (that are just diets in disguise).
All over my feed I’ve been seeing posts about low-cal or low-carb meals, of people reminiscing their smaller bodies and their goals of becoming smaller.
And while I believe in body autonomy and believe that we all get to decide what to do with our bodies, I would like to offer the reminder that you don’t have to start a diet or try to lose weight - ever.
I’m assuming you’ve set those same goals before. Did they work? For how long? How did you feel when the diet / lifestyle change stopped working?
If you have to yet again go on a low-calorie diet to lose weight or you have to lose the same 30lbs you’ve already lost before, maybe it’s because your body doesn’t want to be at a smaller weight, and that’s okay!
Let’s focus on adding this year! Adding more self-care. Adding more vegetables. Adding more time to rest. Adding more time with loved ones. Adding some recipes you’re excited to cook to you ‘to-cook’ list!
Life is too short to spend it on making ourselves smaller.
Also think of your fat friends and family members when you’re posting about actively working towards having a body that doesn’t look like theirs.
I want to make it clear that I understand the want for weight-loss, especially for those who experience discrimination for the size of their bodies. This is not a post with the intention of shaming but instead with the intention of offering a gentle reminder in this time filled with diet culture rhetoric.
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UPDATES ON MY JOURNEY
Heyy all! I've been focusing on my senior professional medical year and it has been stressful. So here are some things I manifested effortlessly and a few things without me thinking about it. Long ass post ahead! ⚠️⚠️
1. Getting more pocket money than usual. Like my parents usually transact in my account like a $80 or $100 AUD per month. But in both feb and march this year, they transacted me $500 and $700 AUD! Plus! I occasionally find $10 or $50 cash in my classroom or on the streets sometimes (and they come lie next to my feet 😭) I'd ask everyone in my class if it's theirs, and they say no. What do y'all expect me to do? Like go and give it to the university management?? 😭 hell no, so i kept it lol.
2. MANIFESTED DIOR'S LIP OILS!! 😭😭 LIKE 5 OF THEM 😭 YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH I'VE OBSESSED WITH LIP OILS 😭😭 AND I WANTED THE RASPBERRY ONE SO BAD, AND GUESS WHAT? I MANIFESTED IT ALONG WITH 4 OTHER SHADESS OMGGG 😭😭😭
3. My crush giving me hints that she's obsessed with me 😭 like she literally told me 'you're so sweet and caring, I've never met a person like this after my grandma' cus her grandma passed away recently and she was so depressed. She even had an eye infection, so she stopped coming to the uni. So i had to make sure she's alright, and met her everyday cus she needed someone real bad. Like she needed to talk to someone and get that thing bothering her outta her head. I was there all along whatever she was going through (don't come at me y'all, ik if we help someone they would say all these things but she's my crush lol so) She's also getting real close to me, like she tells me how annoying people are lol. She loves skin ship, physical touch, being clingy around me, and complimenting me 😭😭 so these are the hints 😭 like friends wouldn't do that right? Would they?? (My friends diss me right in front of everyone 😶)
4. I've always been the type to care too much for the silliest things, nowadays I don't really put my energy into it and become all anxious. My anxiety levels have completely gone down like I'm literally cool asf?? Even while being in public?? Literally yess
5. Manifested getting my hair coloured next week! and my mom permitted me! For my cousin's engagement in april, I wanna be there like the hot younger sister I am lol. I just wanna make my relatives and their kids jealous cus they made fun of me when I was younger (my younger self has been dreaming for this moment) so why not a revenge glow up?? 😭
6. Losing weight even though I eat like a pig due to my study stress. Like literally I ate a 5 course meal one day and lost 2 kgs the next day? (cus I randomly checked my weight for 2 days cus I had to submit my height and weight to the university student records)
7. Getting a natural blush on my face! Like it's such a game changer, I look like a movie star y'all 😭✋🏻
8. My teachers complimenting me for my discipline and high scores. As yk uni professors don't even give af bout students and they complimented me??
9. Getting into a new friend group! My old one was too toxic and they would always bully me (verbally) my new friend group is literally soo damn enjoyable! Like they're the cool kids of the year 😭 and now I'm one too!
10. As I mentioned in my older post that I'm moving into an apartment. We moved in and it was too difficult for me to sleep as the place was new and also there we're disturbances in the night time like stomping noises or playing loud music at night. So the neighbors there were too sweet that they introduced and comforted us that it's okay and if something's bothering us they'll take care of it. And they literally made the people who we're causing those disturbances to vacate out 😭😭✋🏻
11. My hair getting shinier! It was brittle before as I was severely anemic, now my baby hair is back and it's shining ✨
12. I overheard my parents conversing that they should make me audition for an entertainment company....like what? 😭😭✋🏻 when I asked them once years back they denied giving me a 4 hour lecture and now they wanna make me audition?? Like literally 😭 y'all watch me at the Grammy's (after 5 years lol)
13. Getting into the void on command or intention.
14. I literally get free foods everywhere I go 😭😭
15. I got free gifts from my uncle who's living in France! He works at a fashion company and he sent me perfumes and a few outfits (I can't reveal it I'm sorry)
I ONLY WAS THINKING ABOUT GETTING MY LIP OIL, GETTING CLOSE TO MY CRUSH AND FOCUSING ON MY STUDIES. THE REST, I MANIFESTED WITHOUT THINKING ABOUT IT.
SO WHAT NEXT?
I've decided to respawn to my waiting next month. I'm still scripting how my waiting room should be... So it might take time for me. So till then I'm gonna be strengthening my self concept even more, and also getting more and more excited to be in my waiting room! I want my waiting room to be like a more like a sci fi movie and a princess fairytale combined 😭 (ik I'm weird). Like I just want my favorite anime characters to be there to help me script my DR ✋🏻 So I'm kinda in a more excited mode lately to script my waiting room! Will give you updates on how my waiting room will be in a future post! So until then take care, love you, byeeee byeeee!
- olivia 🤍
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They say that first step of recovery is admitting there is a problem. So.
There is a chance, a small, really, an insignificant chance, probably not even worthy of mentioning, that I. Might. Have some type of grain related allergy. Maybe.
Probably not. The indigestion, exhaustion, bloating and vicious repeating cycle of recovery after dropping certain foods and the relapse after said recovery when said foods inevitably return to diet is probably just a coincidence. Right. Right? 🥺
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Lots of people speak out against diet culture and dieting now. So in order to stay relevant, some trainers and companies co-opt that language and make you believe they fight diet culture. They post it in their insta bios, loud and proud. They promise they aren't selling you a diet... when they are.
So if they share:
- before and after pictures
- promote weight loss
- share low calorie meals / snacks / recipes
- programs aimed at changing your body
- messages about burning calories
- meal plans or promote calorie counting or any type of food restrictions (for non-medical reasons)
they are part of diet culture, they are promoting diet culture.
It's misleading to promote yourself as anti-diet and then still promote diet culture
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Hey , I'm in this void community since 2022 but take void seriously in 2023 April but still didn't get in , I feel down and trying to start again but nothing world still the old story repatation. Done almost all this methods here none of here is working enough 🙃.
Hey! I see, I'm sorry but literally the void community in general is pissing me off, not just you. Sorry if I was being rude, but that's what us happening around here. Idk why tf void is being overcomplicated, when that's YOU yourself in your purest state.
First off, why would you ever, for the love of God, assume that nothing is working? 🤦♀️ CHANGE YOUR ASSUMPTIONS. Don't come at me saying nothing is working, cus that phrase just pisses me off (pardon me cus that's like a trauma for me)
Affirm, affirm, affirm. Stick to new story no matter what. Repetition is the key for changing your assumptions. Visualise if you can. Make use of sleep/nap times to your advantage of reprogramming your mind. Listen to subliminals. Do new methods that seem fun. Have fun literally. Maintain a mental diet. Throw that old story out the equation. You have what you want. DOOR SLAM. Most importantly, live in the end. Put yourself on the pedestal. Take your power back.
Do what i said above (only the ones which you feel is comfortable, otherwise don't fucking stress about things you're not comfortable doing/can't do) for 3 days max, I guarantee you, you'll have a shift in your mindset and the 3d. Like literally change your fucking assumptions, working on it for 3 days, just 3 days.
People even have the audacity to come at bloggers telling it's 'nOt wOrKiNg'. Tf?? It's perfectly working, just change the topic which you focus on. It should work, cus it's the LAW. If you want it, and you truly fulfill it in your imagination, you should have it in the 3d too.
Stay true to yourself, and take your power back. Literally you're the creator. Wtf are you doing? You're literally telling me that you can't control the one that you created?? So no, stop that lame old, same old story and stick to that new story. If it takes more than a day Or max 3 days, you're not fulfilling yourself. IT SHOULD MANIFEST INSTANTLY, OR IN LESS THAN A DAY.
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I entirely blame my overeating on my Celtic ancestry. My brain still thinks I'm a Scottish peasant farmer who needs to stock up for the harsh winter ahead when in reality I edit Excel spreadsheets in my house with central heating.
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