If you make the top requests to a psychologist working with eating behavior, then the first three positions will look like this: help you lose weight; help you stop “eating” stress; help you accept your body. And we’ll talk about this third point today. Dissatisfaction with appearance, figure, weight greatly spoils life, does not allow you to relax and feel confident. It seems that all everyone notices are the folds on your sides and your thick thighs. This fixation on weight and its overvaluation is a core pathology in an eating disorder. This is where the eating disorder flywheel begins to spin: go on a diet to get your body in shape, then go crazy and overeat, then, perhaps, induce vomiting or compensate for what you have eaten in some other way. And off we go... Therefore, working with body image, adequate self-perception and acceptance at any weight is an important part of restoring a harmonious relationship with the body and food. To start now, I suggest doing this practice for self-acceptance. You will need a piece of paper, a pen and colored pencils/markers. Write down 12 parts of the body and face on a piece of paper. Try to include more than just weight-related items here. Let there be ears, forehead, feet, etc. Now for each point write at least 3 associations - what comes to your mind when you think about this part of the body. Let's say my wrist is thin, graceful, like my mother's .Take pencils and highlight: visual associations associated with the way it looks - blue*; functional, i.e. related to what functions it performs - red; tactile, i.e. associated with how this part of the body feels to the touch - green; symbolic, i.e. associated with what it means to you - yellow. * You can choose other colors, to suit your taste. Which color turned out the most? If you have many lines of different colors on a piece of paper and there is no advantage to any one, then your relationship are quite harmonious with the body. If blue, then you most likely have difficulties in your relationship with your body and should think about diagnosing an eating disorder. But first, you can try the following: come up with new associations for each recorded body part. These should be those associations that are still in the minority. For example, if you have very little green, then your task is to come up with tactile associations. If you want to work on accepting your body, come for a consultation. You can start with a free demo consultation.