‘This Is Body Dysmorphia’: Tamara Webb Shares Her Struggles Of Acceptance With Advice For Her Followers
Tamara Webb has taken to Instagram to share some great advice on keeping your mind and body in harmony, with a before and after picture of her previous and current physique.
Captioning the photo: “Please read this,” Tamara uploaded the piece this morning.
“It took me YEARS to realise that the reason I was never satisfied with how I looked and obsessing over what I SAW in the mirror was because I never dealt with the real problem. I never dealt with the real insecurities inside my head.”
Webb shared the very intimate confession with her 36k followers, exposing a flaw in society for applauding others seemingly only when they lose weight, “and that’s so f***** up!”
Calling out the comments section of social media as a driving force behind a dip in mental health today, she admits that the “funny thing is, I never saw the extremely thin girl you see on the left”.
“This is body dysmorphia,” Tamara states, also admitting to having to ask people to stop telling her how thin she was, because she simply just couldn’t see it.
“I looked at food as though it was my enemy, I overtrained and compensated a block of chocolate with a run. But still, I never saw that girl.” ⠀
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The fitness enthusiast and #balance aficionado shared the journey she underwent to break herself out of it all.
“First things first: it was hard. It was a long process. Especially mentally reversing the damage I did to myself.”
“I unfollowed all the accounts who made me feel like the person who I should be wasn’t good enough. I stopped weighing myself. I stopped taking post workout photos everyday to compare with.”
She admits that it all sounds ridiculous, but it was when she shifted the perspective of her goals from achieving a certain look to instead achieving a specific feeling from the efforts that things started to look up.
Webb also stopped compensating her meals with excessive workouts and began to focus more on her health instead of the way she looked because, as she puts it, “no one will ever remember me for my chiseled abs if I’m gone, right?”
What really changed for Tamara Webb? A dress size and a real smile. Now, instead of pretending to be happy, she is happy.