17/06/2025
💯agree! Losing weight has deeper layers, not just diet and exercise..
This is an invitation for you to start your healing journey today, see comments for more..🍃
Gaining weight is not always because of poor diet or lack of exercise. It can also be due to these factors:
1. A toxic partner
This is someone who controls your every move, throws low-key insults and calls them jokes even when it clearly hurts, isolates you from your friends, and guilt-trips you to keep you close. When you keep holding in your emotions just to avoid conflict, your body starts to absorb the pressure. That’s when stress eating begins or your metabolism slows down.
2. A toxic work environment
If you're always being criticized, micromanaged, or called too sensitive, your body starts to feel unsafe. You live in constant stress, and that stress raises your cortisol levels. Over time, it messes with your hormones and leads to fat gain, especially around your belly.
3. Unhealed childhood patterns
If you grew up in a home where food was used as a reward or as comfort after pain, those habits stay with you. You eat when you're sad, you restrict yourself when you feel unworthy, and you binge when you feel unseen. It’s not a lack of control. It’s a pattern your body remembers.
4. Lack of emotional safety
When you're always adjusting just to avoid someone's anger, when you're too careful with your words just to keep things calm, your body never gets to relax. You don’t sleep well. You look for comfort in food. And your body holds on to weight because it thinks you're in danger. It's not laziness. It's your nervous system protecting you.
5. Grief you haven’t processed
Grief doesn’t always come from death. Sometimes it’s losing the old version of yourself, or letting go of a future that didn’t happen, or never getting the closure you needed. When you avoid the pain and distract yourself instead, your body ends up holding it all in.
