Overweight and the Desire to Lose Weight

You stand before the mirror and see a body that does not match what you consider right. Too much stomach, hips too wide, too soft, too round. Perhaps you have dozens of diets behind you. Perhaps you count calories, avoid certain foods, move with a guilty conscience rather than with joy. Perhaps you have given up and eat without looking — because looking has become too painful.

Medicine speaks of Body Mass Index, adiposity, metabolic syndrome. And yes — there is a range in which overweight becomes medically relevant. But the question BodySignal asks is a different one: What is your body carrying that cannot be measured in kilograms? What is it protecting by growing? And above all: whose voice is actually telling you that the way you are is not right?

Overweight is not always a problem. Sometimes it is an answer.