If you think that losing fat will solve your body image issues..

have a read of this…

The likelihood is your low body image has very little to do withy our body fat % but of course you don’t buy that so let me give you some proof…

Yesterday I had a discussion with a client who was struggling with body image - she wanted to lose more fat in the belief she would feel better if she did (this client is already lean).

I asked her to keep track of her body image over the week…

The weekend prior had been her daughter’s wedding - she felt AMAZING, loved the way she looked.

Tuesday had been a very low body image day despite the fact her body fat levels had not changed since the weekend.

Friday she felt great again - she trained at a different gym with excellent lighting & saw some very defined triceps for the first time.

Yet on Saturday morning had another really low body image day and didn’t want to go out with her partner… then SHOCK her period came Monday (peri menopausal so harder to track).

The point I wanted to highlight is that her body image had fluctuated drastically throughout the week despite absolutely no change in body fat levels.

So how can we say the body fat level is the issue?

Your body image is impacted by a whole host of things - including but not limited to - sleep, mood, menstrual cycle, come down post event, exercise (or lack of), the weather (sun makes everything better), whether you’ve argued with your partner, your clothing, the gym lighting, flippant comments that you internalise, what you last ate and your interpretation of it etc etc etc… the list could go on forever.

If your body image is fluctuating despite no change in body fat then body fat is not the problem.

You can’t diet your way into better body image. In fact you often find the leanest people/ models have the WORST body image.