Same jacket, same place, vastly different mindsets.

Left: post christmas walk, 2015: empty, desperate,hateful and mercilessly critical, unable to think straight, heavily depressed, dealing with an eating disorder that started in 2013
Right: post christmas walk, 2017: calm, completely (weight) restored, (re)gained so much strength (!), still thinking about the ed, but honestly recovered with a new genuine desire for life and new experiences.

The difference

Okay, this is important to me.

I used to hate photos of any part of my body that wasn’t my eyes. I hated my body in general (figure, belly, arms, legs ), my chin, my skin, my lips, my teeth and my smile and because of that, I stopped smiling in photos altogether – or covered my face, as you can see above. 

However, I’ve been feeling a lot more (body) positive lately, so when I tried to take some photos yesterday, it didn’t go as planned because I just couldn’t stop smiling and that’s such a pleasant development.