With friends like these, ill he think before long
reddit.comMy friend is a butcher. She sent me a visual representation of the weight ive lost recently in pork belly form
Here is a blessing I wrote for a friend who had lost 100 lbs and was struggling with the change:
A blessing for a friend to offer her body
For the ways you have carried me through every day since I was born, I offer my gratitude.
For the pleasure you have given me, I praise you.
For the pain you have endured for me, I respect you.
For the protection you
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But more than the new body size, it was the lightness of being that enthralled me; although I didn’t quite understand the connection between trusting myself around food and trusting less tangible hungers (for rest, contact, meaning), the relationship with food became the lens through which I began to see almost everything.
Geneen Roth • Women Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
The Elephant in the Room: One Fat Man's Quest to Get Smaller in a Growing America
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