Body positive but not confident
I am a very body positive person, but I'm not very confident in my own skin at all. For some reason I'm good at giving people advice to love themselves but no matter my efforts to do the same, I can't.
Right now I'm trying a new path of yoga and meditation to help me build confidence and self-love but I would love some more advice.
I also have to add that for this past year I've been fighting disordered eating tendencies (restricting my diet a lot, fasting, counting calories obsessively, at times staying below 800 daily, binging and comfort eating, and over exercising at times - I haven't been diagnosed with an eating disorder and I don't fit the diagnostic criteria) and body dysmorphia (NOT body dysmorphic disorder), which to me basically means I fixate on the flaws on my body and I can hardly see anything beautiful at all.
Currently my diet is much more flexible, I've basically managed to break the binge/restrict cycle and I watch what I eat so I don't exaggerate but mostly I let myself eat what I want, and I exercise to get stronger. This has helped in the past but not right now.
Do any of you have any advice on how to start being a bit more loving towards my body?
Thank you all so much ♥
Extra info: I am 164 cm and about 51 kg, which should be around 5'4 an113ch
Edit: I'd still like to lose some weight (maybe 1 or 1.5 kg, so not much) but since I'm at a healthy weight I won't do it until I love my body. And when I eventually do, I'll do so in a healthy, controlled way. Do you think this could help?
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