Atkins

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

That was me last weekend. You don't suck. I fall into the same trap of equating self-worth with weight. So take the advice that I should give myself. You are worth more than the sum total of the numbers on the scale. If you eat badly this weekend, it does not make you a failure of a person. It just means that you need to pamper yourself while you're sick. You'll go back to eating healthy right away.

Doesn't most of our culture equate self-worth with weight? I know that most people I encounter think less of me because of my weight. You'd think that would make me work harder at weightloss, but it just makes me give up. I'd make such a lousy anorexic.