I’d love to have a serious conversation with her and say that she’s not anxious and unhappy because of her weight. It’s not the be all and end all.
The reason she puts weight back on is because it’s not that that makes her sad in the first place!
I feel as though she’s lost her way because she’s fallen down the rabbit hole (that we all do to be honest) of thin = happy. And more over, she’s passing the message on to Athena.
It’s really sad, she needs some real life friends. Friends that aren’t her brothers and sisters, friends her own age, friends with children, friends to go for days out with and something to do that isn’t work or going to her Mam’s house.
I hope her break does her some good but I think she’s putting a lot of pressure on herself to do a “big 30 day weight loss reveal”.
I don’t want this to sound snidey at all incase she reads it! I think she needs a bit of help and there is no shame in it. She’s worked a tough job during a pandemic, had a ‘relationship’ break down and she doesn’t understand that there’s a lot more going on here that ‘she’s put on weight’