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Hey gang, moans will be back soon I promise. This post is just an honest conversation with y'all about what's been going on behind the scenes these past six months. Lots has been changing, and I wanted to tell the whole story. If this is potentially triggering for you, please please please engage responsibly.

Love y'all and I'll be spanking y'all again tomorrow.

PS. If you're early to this, I am live ranking all the GWA tags. twitch.tv/velslibrary

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Mina

Just a couple minutes in and I already know this will hit me. I had an ED from ages 14-17 in the midst of some very bad unaddressed mental issues. Even despite being older now, I still weigh myself and frown at the number despite it being muscle as I'm VERY physically active at my job. This also stems from my struggles with chronic illness. It is so difficult to love your body in modern society when our societies standards of "attractiveness" are constantly changing definitions. And what they find "abnormal" is changing, too. This realization made me look within myself and see that there is no point in trying to appeal to others. That feeling hot as fuck feels better than tirelessly trying to conform to something unachievable. That being kind to myself was more rewarding than coming back home empty handed. Talking about these things is so incredibly difficult. You're awesome for sharing this, because with the direction I'm hearing I know someone else, whos currently at their lowest, will need to hear this right now. I know I certainly did.

Kat

Vel I’m proud of you! Chronic illness has stolen many years of participation in life from me because of issues with weight. My own journey recently took a 180 due to a new treatment and while I hadn’t given up hope I just couldn’t believe the life I envisioned for myself being attainable when it came to the person I saw in the mirror. Maybe it’s partially spite but I know I feel a sense of pride in myself purely for being dragged through the trenches mentally and physically for 30 years and still being here lol Hopefully through the ups and downs that keeps you going too.

Baseline Bandit

Thank you so much for sharing, I really needed to hear this and it has massively motivated me to just "trust the process" like you said. I've started and stopped so many times because I haven't seen any progress but progress doesn't happen overnight. I now look forward to my gym days to see what new limits I can push my body to and it feels amazing. So I'll say it again, thank you, and I hope you achieve your goals someday because it sounds awesome!

Synthetic

I wanna say a very whole hearted, Thank you for sharing and good for you Vel. 💜

Esmé

Sweet Vel!! Thank you so so much for being so giving and vulnerable with us to share your experience. I've had a similar experience of losing weight (unintentionally at the time, I was doing things I shouldn't and not sleeping for days) and was praised heartily for it by my peers. At the same time, I had folks worried about me and in the most fucked up way, I felt good that they were worried about me because that meant I was skinny. I gained the weight back plus more, lost it again and gained a large amount of muscle, and then lost muscle and gained weight back again once I stepped into a corporate professional role. I'm at the point now where I'm trying so fucking hard to embrace body neutrality and be thankful that I get to lift weights and do yoga and also eat ice cream and do all the things I want, but it is hard to not freak out when I see the number on the scale. I'm older than I was when I was at my skinniest, and even now seeing stretch marks appear when I feel like I've been so good and so active feels like a setback I can't get over, but I digress. It's a process and it'll always be a process, but your audios and your vulnerability helps more than you know. Hopefully sharing some part of me will help you as well. Sending big hugs ❤️

Mus ~~

Thank you for your honesty, Vel, and thank you for your trust. You've been through so much that would have ground down just about anyone else to a pile of dust. This hard-won strength is astonishing, and so very rare. You shine so brightly. You are deeply respected and deeply admired by more than just myself, but I can only speak for me. You may not need defenders; but most, if not all, of us would wreak mayhem for you without a qualm.

modernflail

Thank you for getting vulnerable and sharing your story ❤️

Riniarch

This hit me hard, in a good way, an important way... and I'm proud of you and everyone here (including me) that has a journey we are living. Thank you 💜

gemslittlebookshelf

I’ll be honest—I’ve listened to this more than a few times, and each time, I’ve struggled to find the right words to express just how much of an impact you’ve had, not just on me but on this entire community. Cheering ‘Go Vel!’ with pink, sparkling pom-poms from the sidelines doesn’t feel like enough. I want to acknowledge how incredibly brave and open you were in sharing your journey. Struggling with body image, weight issues, and motivation can feel overwhelming—I relate to this so much. But I’m learning to love myself, even if I never get back to the body I once had or achieve the ‘perfect’ version I imagined. I’m starting to be okay with that. I know you might not want to believe it, but you were just as incredible before this journey as you are now. If something doesn’t make you happy, you have every right to change it—but through it all, please remember to be kind to yourself. You are worthy of love and care, exactly as you are.