2021-01-18
36 分钟Pushkin.
Year after year, one of the most common New Year's resolutions is losing weight.
Many of us start the New Year hating what we see in the mirror.
And so we resolve to fix it, not by eating just a tad healthier,
but by completely overhauling our entire food intake.
January can feel like a time when everyone is on some eating regime.
Our social media feeds fill up with diet ads and articles about paleo and keto and master cleanses and cabbage soup.
Our friends download calorie counting apps and pledge to cut out carbs and sugar.
It's hard not to get swept up in all the fresh start diet culture frenzy,
especially if you're not feeling all that positive about how you look after the holidays.
I know all this very well because I too have had my fair share of January diet overhauls.
I have started many,
many a new year hating what I saw in the mirror and obsessing over my own eating habits.
And what was the result of all this strict dieting weeks later?
More often than not,
I wound up beating myself up for not living up to that perfect picture of health I'd envisioned on New Year's Eve.
A resolution I thought would make me happier ended up making me feel more disappointed and more depressed than ever.
It's been hard for me to break this annual cycle.
But last year around this time, Andrea Wachter came to my rescue.
Andrea is a psychotherapist who specializes in disordered eating and the problem of diet culture.