Unhappy with my body
 

After I gave birth I was super happy with my body and now I'm happy with my weight but not happy with my stomach

Hello,

Just to clarify, are you seeking support about body image?

Yes please. I wasn’t very clear. I’m just not happy. Working on changing things but I seem to be up and down a lot with how I feel in relation to my body.

For me I think there's two approaches to help with body image. Firstly it can help to try to drown out the negatives with the positives - thinking about all the things my body enables me to do and that despite anything bad I do or have done do it, it relentlessly keeps on going, enabling me to breathe, think, talk and move around.

Sometimes that feels a bit fake and trying to just accept it is a better route. Yep, I don't like it and yep there will always be bits of me I'm not too keen on but there's no wrong way to have a body and if I want the people who look up to me to believe that, then I have to believe it too and not fixate on things I don't like.

I don't know if any of that helps. Basically I hear you and body image can be a bitch!

I'm nearly 3 years post partum and still waiting to get used to my new tummy!

I am carry a bit more weight than before I had my daughter but most of the changes that are hard to adjust too are the feel. It's wobbly and doughy now. I lost a lot of weight when breastfeeding and this was the case when I was underweight too so I know the bit that I hate the most is just from the pregnancy. My husband calls it my achievement belly but it's hard when I look in the mirror.

Sorry not much help but I 100% can relate. Much love x