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Kara Swisher

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Appearances Over Time

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And it's a long road back.

And so what I am findingβ€”

One day at a time, doing the recovery work around my body and the scale and dieting and binging is this radical self-love and acceptance for this one body that God gave me that I am only putting...

well, let's say 95% of the time, delicious, healthy food into, and that I am honoring and that I am

tending to the way that I would tend to a child, you know, because I always had kind of big thighs relative to my body.

And I wrote a piece about having this moment of radical clarity in a swimsuit on a beach with these teenagers looking at my body.

And I was about 40 and my thighs were not

you know, quite what I had hoped, let's say, and coming to just like all but raise my fist in victory because I felt okay.

And what I lost was that feeling that I am okay.

What you think about my body has nothing to do with what my body and me are about.

actively that I'm being restored to that acceptance.

You know what I did this morning after I took my shower?

I rubbed this delicious lotion into these thighs of mine, and I thanked my feet for how far they have brought me.

I think I'm on a constant...

Like this lady in Edinburgh who has a bagel shop.