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Do You Need a Boyfriend to Lose Weight

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By lindagoffigan


Having a Boyfriend will Not Help You to Lose Weight

 Do You Need  a Boyfriend to  Lose Weight

Having a boyfriend will not help you to lose weight.  If you are losing weight for your boyfriend and not for yourself, then you are losing weight for the wrong reason.  Lose weight for yourself and for no one else, not even your boyfriend.

There are some girls out there with low self esteem who thinks that they need to please other people especially their boyfriend to be accepted as a viable human beings.   The person you need to start with to  increase your self esteem is  yourself.  The weight issue is not the first place to start if you are looking to increase your self esteem and to enhance the way you feel about yourself.  You must start with knowing who you are as a person and accept the way you are before you seek acceptance from anyone else.  You have to accept who you are first whether you are a size 0 or  a size 24.  Makes sense?  Believe it or not there are reasons why a person is a size 0 and there is a reason why  a person is  size 24.   Maintaining  weight or losing  weight has more to do with how much food you consume or whether of not you have  boyfriend. There are underlying reasons why people are the size they are and why they are unhappy or happy with their weight.

The size 0 may have plenty of boyfriends because of this country’s  view of what constitutes beauty in a woman. The saying is that you can never be too thin or too rich which has unrighteously become a standard when dealing with weight or money.  But you do not know what the size 0 is doing to maintain her size 0.  She may be using unhealthy means.  The size 24 woman may have problems to other than overeating.  Why is food her survival place?  She needs to realize that there are other go to places for her  if she gets in a trench.  And because of American standards and how she thinks about her weight more often than not she may not have a boyfriend.

That is why it is so important to look at your own situation instead of going out there and trying to get a boyfriend.  You need to validate yourself and you can do that validation without  a boyfriend.  Everyone likes to be in a relationship and some women who are confident with themselves at  size 24 have boyfriends.  Why?  Because they are basing their wants and needs on themselves and not on the preconceived notions of a country that has caused most women to spend their lives trying to lose weight.  Some women have taken the holistic view that sure I will have fries with that and also I will have someone to share my life with.  What is wrong with that?

There is nothing wrong with being carefree about your weight however, one should take in consideration the health risk involved in being overweight.  Most overweight people have attitudes because they know that they are fighting the American standard of what constitutes beauty.  These women needs to do  take another look at their situation and not inclusive of a boyfriend when they think about their weight loss issues.  The size 0 needs to take another look at how she is maintaining her weight if she is using unhealthy means not inclusive of a boyfriend in her analysis.

Women should not concentrate on losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight because of a boyfriend.  You may love this guy into another lifetime but if you do not love yourself what good is the love.  If he decides to move on and some men do move on for no apparent reason,  where would that leave you as far as your self esteem and how you feel about yourself. You would have put all of your eggs in one basket instead of  filling your own basket first full of self esteem
And love for yourself.  Whitney Houston sings that loving yourself is the greatest love of all.

You can have a boyfriend and be in love without losing your sense of self.  You lose your sense of self when your reliance on a boyfriend becomes detrimental to your health.  You have heard of the forelorn love songs of popular lyrics that sings of love as if the world ends if you lose out in a relationship.  That is not the case.  If a relationship ends, the sun will shine the following day and the world will keep right on turning.  If you placed importance on your well being throughout the relationship, you will survive the break up as well.

Having a boyfriend will have no bearing on your weight or on the continuance of your place as a viable human being capable of accomplishing great things that you put your mind to.  If you put your mind to losing weight and get the proper support, you will see results with or without a boyfriend.  If you are having problems remaining thin and is consuming your food in an unhealthy manner, you will see results if you seek help with or without a boyfriend.  You do not need  a boyfriend to help you to lose weight.

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