To Black girls: stop glorifying obesity!

I 28F just hit my goal of losing 30 pounds and dropped my A1C from 7.2 to 5.5 in 5 months(cured my diabetes).

Here’s the crazy thing, I kept being skinny shamed when I was clearly overweight. I use to be 172 pounds at 5’7 and omg the amount of times I would get told too skinny or that I needed curves by other black girls.

Did a routine blood test and was told I had developed diabetes and needed to go on meds. I was scared because my aunt lost her toes due to it but it didn’t seem right right? I was skinny, ate healthy and worked out so what was the issue? I told my doctor this and he looked super uncomfortable and shrugged and told me black people are more genetically prone to it but also I was overweight and could stand to lose some. I had never been told I was too fat in my entire life and I was the skinniest person in my family and friend group.

I worked out and ate healthy and did all that (low carb high fat) and avoided junk which was easy since my city was hard hit by covid and there was nowhere to go. At the end of my weight loss, I went to my mom’s to catch up with family and the everyone was shocked by me. Everyone telling me to gain weight/I look like a stick and how I was too skinny now and how will guys find me attractive?

My black girlfriends also commented on my Instagram telling me how I was way hotter curvy.

I felt so bad I almost quit until I found out I was cured of diabetes! It wasn’t extremely hard to lose the weight it was just hard to deal with my own people telling me I’m too skinny when I clearly wasn’t.

Funny enough it was all the black women in my life who hated the weight loss. All my white friends congratulated me. It’s sad we have such an unhealthy body goal.

Edit: also told my family I had gotten diabetes and I’m trying to fix it by losing weight and my mom and aunt were concerned but the rest of my aunts and uncles told me I was already skinny and everyone get’s it and it wasn’t a huge deal. It’s so sad they think it’s normal.

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