Body Weight and Health

You weigh too much. Or too little. Or you weigh exactly what some table defines as correct — and still feel wrong. The subject of body weight is so laden with shame, norms and self-condemnation that most people can barely distinguish whether their discomfort comes from the body or from the head.

Medicine works with BMI values, threshold values and risk statistics. And yes — there are physical connections between weight and certain conditions. But the psychosomatic perspective asks differently: What does your body weight express about your relationship with yourself? Why does your body take precisely this form — and why do you experience it as a problem?

Your weight is not a verdict. It is a mirror.