Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Weight Loss Is BS
(And What to Do Instead)
Weight loss has become a swirling vortex of dodgy advice, pseudo-science and influencers whispering weird things while their cameras do slow, dramatic zooms.
And we—intelligent, educated, sensible women—have been falling for it.
Over and over again.
Now, before you get defensive, I’m not blaming you. I’m blaming the multi-billion dollar diet industry that’s been profiting from your frustration. The same industry that handed you food rules longer than the Constitution, labelled you “bad” for eating toast and convinced you that health meant starvation… oh and apparently you need a thigh gap.
If you’ve ever thought it was your fault that none of it worked?
That’s the biggest B.S. of all.
The Cost of Doing It the Hard Way
Let me guess. You’ve tried:
Keto
Intermittent fasting
That time you drank lemon juice with cayenne pepper for a week and hallucinated your ex in the hallway
And yet… the weight either didn’t budge or it left and came back with mates.
This doesn’t mean you’re weak. Or lazy. Or have the self-control of a Labrador near a sausage.
It means the whole system is rigged.
Because dieting doesn’t just fail 95% of the time—it does real damage.
To your metabolism.
To your mental health.
To your relationship with food, your body and your own bloody intuition.
And it teaches you that to be healthy, you need to suffer. You need to punish, restrict, deprive and whip your body into submission like you’re trying to tame an unbroken stallion.
Spoiler alert: You don’t.
The Truth About Weight Loss No One’s Telling You
Here it is. The mic-drop moment. The truth that unravels the whole narrative:
Your body already knows how to eat.
You’ve just been trained not to trust yourself.
Trained by years of calorie counting, point tracking, detox plans, “cheat days” and that weird moment in 2004 when bread became the enemy.
You don’t need more rules.
You don’t need more willpower.
And you definitely don’t need a personal trainer named Brad shouting “PAIN IS JUST WEAKNESS LEAVING THE BODY” while you attempt burpees in activewear that’s slowly strangling your pancreas.
What you need is a new approach. One grounded in science, sanity and self-respect.
And most importantly?
You were never broken.
You’ve Been Set Up to Fail (But Here’s How to Take Your Power Back)
Picture this: You’re standing at the edge of a tennis court. You’ve never played tennis in your life. Someone hands you a violin and says, “Alright then, love—go win Wimbledon.”
Absurd, right?
That’s what it’s like trying to lose weight using diet culture’s rules.
They don’t teach you how to eat for your body.
They don’t help you manage cravings, stress or emotional eating.
They just hand you a set of unrealistic restrictions, slap your hand when you inevitably “fail” and tell you to “just try harder.”
Enough of that.
This is your antidote.
It’s time to unlearn the crap that’s been drilled into you since you were 12 and read that carbs were evil in Dolly magazine.
Time to retrain your brain and your body to work together, like they were always meant to.
To stop making food the enemy.
Here’s the Magic Nobody Talks About
When you stop obsessing over food…
When you start listening to your body again…
When you realise hunger isn’t a moral failure…
Weight loss becomes a side effect.
Not a battle.
Not a full-time job.
Not a war between you and your willpower.
So no, I’m not going to give you a guide on how to be “good” or stick to a plan. You don’t need more control. You need more connection. With your body. With your cues. With your actual needs.
Because real health? It doesn’t come from restriction. It comes from respect.
And food? It was never meant to be a battleground.
It was meant to nourish. To delight. To connect us. To keep us alive.
So let’s stop shrinking ourselves with shame—
And start tuning in to our perfect gauge.