Dorcas Adunbiode
5 min readJun 23, 2024

One Reason Any Woman Shouldn't Try Lose Weight

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- "You want to walk into a room and make heads turn because you look stunning in a sleek, form-fitting dress."

- "You aim to post a photo on social media and receive numerous compliments and likes for your attractive appearance."

- "You hope to fit into the latest trendy outfits effortlessly"

- "You desire to receive admiring glances from strangers when you walk down the street

- "You wish to attend events without worrying about your size, without people gawking at you because you're larger.

DON'T DO IT!!!

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Don't start a weight loss journey because you want to fit into society's definition of beauty!

Only you can talk of the insults and bullying you've had to endure because you're plus size. And here is me, a total stranger, telling you over shared wifi to not take your escape out of it, without giving you a tangible reason or reasons for that.

Well, I was going to get there..

And here's why…

I said don't lose weight because you want your admirers to increase or so that you can escape the scrutiny of weight watchers…

… Because you WILL die in the process, without achieving your aim!

But when did weight loss start killing people?

Since inception.

And just because they don't inscribe on people's tombstones “she died while trying to lose weight” doesn't mean it never happened.

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I'm coming, I'd help you out of this dilemma I got you into:

Desperately trying to lose weight means you're under chronic stress and anxiety already.

Desperately trying to lose weight means your options are rapid weight loss options like elongated work out times, popping pills and drinks acclaimed as miracle weight loss products, extremely strict diet rules, etc.

Chronic stress and anxiety are the basic requirements for quite a number of diseases and conditions that could lead to death.

Moreover, rapid weight loss options are great tools for short term results. They are not a sustainable process that only produces unsustainable results.

This implies you're in a vicious cycle of weight loss and weight regain. A cycle which if you don't intentionally get out of, will kill you.

And apart from unsustainability, rapid weight loss options leave you physically strained and with imbalanced nutrients intake.

All these increase your chances of dying really fast.

Also, the validation you're looking for wouldn't come when you lose weight. Bullies hardly let go of their victims that easily.

When you shed those fat, they either continue to remind you of what you used to look like or have their dirty claws on other parts of your life that come to them as faulty.

The confidence you desire doesn't come with a size 6. It's born and built on your person rather than weight or size.

In fact, say you have the perfect size now and then you realize everything you thought it would come with didn’t magically appear with it (because they won’t!).

That leaves you longing until you're lost in the abyss of depression. Then you spend a whole lot of your time trying to decide which way is better than the other to exit life.

Do you now see?

Every angle there is to it comes at you wielding a sharp dagger.

Hence why I said you’d die in the process.

Am I telling you to indulge your body into destruction by not losing weight?

Nah!

Am I telling you not to choose healthier living options?

Hell no!!

What I am getting at is this..

The entire purpose of weight loss is. .. to be HEALTHIER.

So whatever, by way of motivation or process, that will not consider your immediate and long term physical and mental wellbeing for weight loss isn't worth trying.

You should be making efforts to live, not to die.

So my dear reader, you need to kill off that desperation to lose weight before it drives you to an early grave.

And I'd gladly help you to kill and uproot it because I know where it stems from:

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It's from self-hate. You've allowed people's coldness and reservation for your weight to get to you overly much. You now hate your body for giving people the excuse to hate you and treat you like trash. You think your body denies you of things you're qualified for, so you hate it.

It's an unending loop.

But you can still get out of it.

How?

By finding love again with your body despite what people have to say about it.

You really need to love your body to consider its health while trying to lose weight. Which is the only valid reason for weight loss.

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Without self love, you can't get it right with weight loss.

It's all you need for a good start.

And if you need help with falling in love with your body as a plus size woman, I have what you need.

Get yourself this ebook “A Smash On The Fat Woman Stereotype: How To Love Your Body In A Society That Hates It”.

You will get all you need to start loving your body right from it.

Lose weight for your health and not your death.

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