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Do you ever get stuck on Facebook comparing old photos of yourself to the most recent ones and are angry because you’ve changed?
Do you ever get stuck on Instagram looking at models in bikinis and cry because you don’t look that way?
Do you ever google the most recent diet fads and wish you had the willpower to follow those to a T?
The internet impacts the way we see ourselves in big ways. There are plenty of opportunities for comparing, belittling, stalking, obsessing over different body types, bikini shots and the life that others seem to live.
It’s quite easy to get into a spiral of self-doubt, self-rejection and the feeling of always being less than when you spend too much time on the social web.
This episode of Escape Diet Prison is dedicated to the influence that Facebook and Co. have on your body image, diet plans and self-image.
Telling my story of not having access to wifi for 3 months, I share my favorite ways of learning to deal with the dangers of the internet in a healthy way.
Log off
This one is quite obvious but super effective. Try logging off when everything gets too much or do it every day as a preventative measure to save your self-image.
Upload fewer photos
If the comparison of yourself to yourself or others takes over your life, stop uploading so many photos to the social web. This is not a great long terms strategy, but it will kickstart your way to a healthier body image.
Up your self-care
In times of being vulnerable, you’ve got to kick your self-care routine up a notch. Do what feels good, ask the right questions, get out, lean in, do what you have to do to ground yourself again.
Educate yourself
Remember that photoshop, filters, angels, poses, lighting are real and dramatically alter the way one looks in photos. Keep that in mind when you go down a toxic spiral of self-hate because others just look a billion times better than you ever will.
Build Resilience
This is what it all comes down to. Cultivating resilience to the harm that the internet can do to your self-image takes commitment but it’ll help you to be online, see photos of others or yourself and not get triggered by them anymore.
Enjoy this episode of Escape Diet Prison and do share it if it helped or inspired you.
Love and light,
You love eating and still, you are secretly afraid of it. Because it makes you gain weight (you think), it makes you unattractive (you believe), it makes you feel guilty (unfortunately, yes) and it makes you feel more and more at war with yourself (maybe that is true too).
So, how can you start being more relaxed around food again and make it an event?
This program will show you how.
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