Let’s talk about a number that has held a toxic, vice-like grip on women’s lives for decades.
The number on the bathroom scale!
From a very young age, we are conditioned to believe that a lower number equals success, health, and desirability.
Standard fitness culture reinforces this by tracking progress almost exclusively through weight loss and generic, outdated charts like the Body Mass Index (BMI).
Let’s play a quick game of truth or dare.
Truth: When was the last time you watched a perfectly polished, hyper-edited, highly aesthetic video on social media and actually felt a deep, memorable connection to the person who made it?
Chances are, never. You probably scrolled past it three seconds later, completely forgetting what you just saw.
Yet, creators and marketers are still hopelessly obsessed with a single metric: Reach.
We’ve all seen these standard fitness slogans plastered across social media. They are meant to be motivating, but let’s be entirely honest: they were designed for people who only have to worry about bringing their sneakers to the gym. They completely ignore the invisible luggage the rest of us are carrying.
A lot of people assume that intelligent women don’t fall into emotionally unhealthy relationships.
That if a woman is educated, self-aware, emotionally articulate, financially independent, or professionally successful… she should “know better.”
But human beings don’t choose relationships only through logic.