What to do when you feel jealous of someone's weight loss

Picture this   You’re sitting scrolling on social media and you see on your already curated feed (because you follow my advice 😉) a friend’s weight loss post. You notice all of the likes and the “Wow, well done, what’s your secret?!” comments.   Or maybe you meet with your girlfriends and one of them has lost X amount of lbs on the X diet and everyone is telling her how amazing she looks.   In either scenario, here are the likely emotions that you’ll experience:   Envy – you desperately want the weight loss too.   Anger – All of a sudden you can’t stand your friend and you feel like she’s done you wrong somehow. Like you were quite happy in your anti-diet, food freedom and body love world and she’s come along and burst your bubble.   Frustration – Maybe diets do work after all but you sure as hell couldn’t stick to one. “Why can’t I do that too? What’s wrong with me?”   Hopelessness – you’re sitting there feeling awful about yourself in the body you have now since you gave up dieting. You thought you were doing ok until now… you wonder if you’ll ever be happy because you can’t stick to a diet no matter how hard you try (and even if you could, you know you’d gain the weight back plus more) AND your body positivity bubble has just burst. Hopeless, useless, sad, pointless, blah…   Can you relate?   So what can you do to stop yourself from spiralling into a negative, self-abusive thought pattern that ends with the solution of “I should diet!”…?   Let’s dive in my love.   www.victoriakleinsman.com