{"id":1528,"date":"2018-01-15T21:21:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T02:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2018-01-15T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T02:51:00","slug":"no-bs-advice-stop-trying-to-lose-weight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shanafigueroa.com\/blog\/no-bs-advice-stop-trying-to-lose-weight\/","title":{"rendered":"No-BS Advice: Stop Trying to Lose Weight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the spirit of helping everyone reach their full kick-ass potential, I’ve decided to start a new blog feature called “No-BS Advice!” It’s similar to my Night Owl writing advice articles<\/a>, but shorter and aimed at the epic battles we fight in everyday life.<\/p>\n

To kick off the New Year, I’ll start with a piece of advice that’s particularly relevant:\u00a0Stop trying to lose weight. Just stop it already.<\/p>\n

Fat is not the enemy!<\/a> The REAL enemy is our culture\u2019s irrational hatred of fat. Being a size two or having rock-hard abs doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re healthy, and not <\/em>having those things doesn\u2019t mean you\u2019re not<\/em> healthy.<\/p>\n

Did you know 97% of people who lose weight via dieting end up gaining it all back<\/a>? It\u2019s not because all those people are weak-willed chocolate junkies. It\u2019s because their bodies were like \u201cWTF???\u201d and violently protested by jacking up their appetites while lowing their metabolisms to get back to their normal weight.<\/p>\n

We see people on television and think those actors are \u201chealthy\u201d weights. But the truth is there is no one-size-fits-all healthy weight, the same way describing how an \u201caverage person\u201d looks is unlikely to be accurate for any individual. Everybody\u2019s unique; there has literally been no other person exactly like you on earth. Trying to conform to some generic version of a \u201chealthy weight\u201d is a fool\u2019s errand.<\/p>\n

So start the New Year off right by saying \u201cFUCK IT\u201d to losing weight. Instead, focus on eating healthier, exercising more, and ridding yourself of bad habits. If you lose weight in the process, so be it. If not, then believe your body when it tells you you\u2019re just the right size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    In the spirit of helping everyone reach their full kick-ass potential, I’ve decided to start a new blog feature called “No-BS Advice!” It’s similar to my Night Owl writing advice articles, but shorter and aimed at the epic battles we fight in everyday life. To kick off the New Year, I’ll start with … <\/p>\n

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