Sharing three tips for how to navigate when clothes don’t fit you, without trying a diet or intentional weight loss! When you leave dieting behind and begin to heal your relationship with food, you might notice some weight gain.When you have to diet in order to maintain a certain weight, that’s not the weight your body wants to naturally be at.Whatever weight you end up at once you have a more flexible and peaceful relationship with food is your healthy weight for your body.

When folks naturally gain weight as part of their healing journeys, often grief comes up around letting go of the thin ideal.And grief also comes up around letting go of the clothes that used to “fit them.” But the reality is the clothes never fit them, they tried to fit into the clothes.It’s not your job to fit into clothes, it’s the clothes’ job to fit you.  Diet culture sells us a lie that we should keep all of our too tight clothing as a motivator to lose weight.

Since when is a pair of jeans digging into your stomach a motivating force? You know what force that elicits? Shame.When you wear clothes that are not comfortable on your here-and-now body, you have a constant physical reminder that you hate your body.It’s basically an invitation for negative body image thoughts.

So what do you do when your clothes no longer fit you? You find new clothes that feel good on your here-and-now body.Here are three tips on how to navigate this: Clean out your closet.If you’re still h

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