"After a serious illness, the comedian decided to take her doctor's advice and lose weight. Here, she talks about her complex relationship with her body, the lifelong abuse she received because of her appearance and healing the inner hurt that weight-loss medication cannot address"
"It just seemed like a faff and something I wasn't interested in,"
"Because I wasn't going to put the effort into losing weight. I wasn't going to put the effort into hating myself either. I wanted to just be neutral on it."
Alison Spittle began encountering weight-loss culture in primary school when she first went to Slimming World. A serious illness led to a doctor's recommendation to lose weight, and she chose to follow that advice. She has a complex relationship with her body shaped by lifelong abuse and appearance-based mistreatment. She initially regarded dieting as a pointless faff and preferred neutrality rather than effortful self-hatred. Weight-loss medication and physical change cannot by themselves heal the deeper emotional hurt formed by years of abuse and shaming.
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