December 11, 2025
Have you noticed how many of the loudest body-positivity figures in the media have suddenly and dramatically lost weight? This didn’t happen by accident, and it didn’t happen in isolation. Weight-loss jabs entered the mainstream, and almost overnight the visual landscape shifted. Pretending those two things aren’t connected is naive at best and dishonest at worst.
At the same time, social media is quietly — and sometimes aggressively — warping our understanding of what real bodies actually look like.
This conversation isn’t about celebrating obesity on one end or glorifying anorexia on the other. Extremes sell, but they don’t help. The real issue is far less sensational and far more human: we live in a world where most people were never properly educated about food, movement, or health.
We are a species driven by emotion. Trauma happens. Mental health struggles happen. Comfort eating happens. Drinking happens. Snacking happens. And many people simply aren’t fuelling their bodies in a way that supports energy, strength, or longevity. Instead of education, we’ve been given shame, noise, and rules that change every five minutes.
Food gets demonised. Exercise gets framed as punishment. Movement is taught as something you do only if you hate your body enough to want it smaller. People are taught that exercise is about “beating” yourself — suffering through workouts you dread — rather than building strength, confidence, and mental resilience.
And then there’s social media.
Filters have become frightening. Bodies are posed, edited, contorted, and distorted beyond recognition. Women stick their bums out, turn their feet inward to manufacture thigh gaps, arch their backs, and stand in positions no one naturally exists in. None of this is accidental. And girls and women grow up comparing themselves to images that quite literally aren’t real.
That constant comparison breeds shame. Shame leads to avoidance. And avoidance keeps people stuck in cycles they blame themselves for.
So they ask questions I hear all the time:
“Am I broken?”
“I’ve always been like this.”
No — you’re human, living in a system that profits from confusion.
The work I do isn’t about vague spirituality or performative self-love. I teach women how to find themselves in the most practical way possible: confidence, capability, and feeling absolutely bloody fabulous in their own skin.
Yes, I help people lose weight. But what I actually do is give them tools they can take into real life. I help them feel at home in a gym rather than intimidated by it. I load their gorgeous skeletons so they build strong bones, resilience, and a glow no filter can recreate.
I teach that “low-fat” isn’t the magic answer. That calories, frustratingly, still matter. That daily movement — especially walking — is wildly underrated. And that strength training changes not just your body, but how you move through the world.
Most importantly, I help people stop looking for a moral failure to explain their body.
You are not broken.
You were just never taught properly.
And it’s time we stopped pretending distorted images, extremes, and silence are doing anyone any good.
