So true. I was 322lb at my heaviest from overeating to deal with past trauma. I'm down to 140lbs now after getting help to deal with the extreme abuse I went through as a child and throughout my 20s. I'm a size 4/6 now and at my heaviest I was a size 24.
Is eating the problem or what one eat is the problem? Why not FREQUENTLY eat all the vegetables, fruits, nuts and drink water all you want, then OCCASIONALLY eat macaroni/cheese, white rice, French fries, oxtails, pork chops, pizza, chitterlings, spaghetti, donuts, pancakes, pastry and drink sodas infrequently?
I realized that this was my issue back in my early 20s. I remember being weighed in school and I was 215lbs in 10th grade. I started to work out and lost some weight, but I would yo-yo because I didn't have a handle on food. It wasn't until college that I thought about my childhood and realized I turned to food because I was abandoned by my father and neglected by my mother. I spent most of my childhood alone and eating just because the food was there when nobody else was. I'm way more in control of it now, but I still struggle with food. I've been down to about 140lbs for the past 7 years, but everyday is a struggle to not over eat.
Very important topic for discussion. It’s truly deeper than the surface level of “you’re big and need to stop eating”. As someone who’s lost a significant amount of weight at periods of time, I was literally bullied for loosing weight. The convo must include generational habits, mindset and self sabotaging limited beliefs
The aftermath of the overeating is the fat/obese body that we’re calling the ‘standard’. “Oh, I can over eat and *still* be considered thick, beautiful, a baddie, etc? Bring it.” All around there are problems.
This video hit home. I'm a black man that's struggled with my weight since I was a kid. I got up to 290 lbs and a 43 inch waist after a very hard break-up with my GF at the time. Keto diet, tirzepatide shots, and therapy helped me get down to 220 lbs and a 35 inch waist. Food is definitely used as a coping mechanism in our community (especially carb heavy foods like Mac and cheese). In some ways it's not our fault. According to a study by the University of Florida, sugary foods can be as addictive as nicotine and cocaine. In other ways, we've normalized obesity in our culture. We invented "Thick Culture" and deluded ourselves to believe that fat and curvy were the same. Many of us are also religious. The black church shames "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" but has precious little to say about gluttony. The collection plate would be empty if the pastor ever said a word about obesity in most cases. Our culture is unhealthy, and much of what we call Soul Food is struggle food that no longer benefits us. There are just some things we need to let go.
i eat to be full. i need to switch to eat for fuel. i eat to just to not be hungry or have hungry pains. but i dont care about eating, i just dont like my stomach making sounds especially when im around people.
Not enough emphasis is placed on the need to address the underlying mental/psychological/emotional issue that drive overeating...for both sexes. Late last year, I was at the homegoing service of a blood relative who died of a heart attack. In the last year of his life he topped 400 lbs. and was no longer fully mobile, but he cooked every day (and often these were extravagant meals)...while seated. I also had a former fellow church member who defeated gastric bypass. She ate herself back into obesity, in spite of the surgery.
Was coming to make this comment. There’s definitely underlying issues present and for both sexes when poor eating habits become noticeably problematic. My concern is Especially when it comes to BW, there’s no easy way to suggest healthier eating habits and consistent exercise without hurting feelings, being called a misogynist, being told you hate BW or even being blocked by the defense it’s somehow natural for Modern BW to be obese. Sensitive topic for sure.
@@seensay2132I’ve had teeter totter weight since h.s usually leaning towards small. I’m a size 4/6 at 38 y.o. I’ve noticed that we put more emphasis on superficial appearance opposed to actual health. I don’t like being small because it’s not the aesthetic. However, it is my natural body type and I’ve learned to love my athletic/modelesque form even though I’m often passed up for the women who are out of shape in comparison to me but, have the curves and”thickness” in all the “right” places. It’s a double edge sword. I know someday, someone will prefer legs and a pretty smile over a big butt and a pretty smile😂
@@BayouBarbie504 I’m going by the clinical health term for what Doctors determine is obese for both genders. There are absolutely exceptions. But for most clinically considered obese or even underweight, there’s usually direct correlation to healthier eating habits and consistent exercise (or lack thereof). My only point is that for those who fit those categories, there’s usually a litany of defensive excuses even superficial to simply avoid the facts healthier eating habits and more exercise are better to achieve healthy weight. Not everyone wants to acknowledge that or adopt best practices.
I believe it can be a sign of loneliness and hormonal imbalances, particularly after age 30. A lot is stress and trauma related . Break generational curses and start inner self care.
It's hard to feel your feelings in a society that makes you repress them. Food can also be a way to bring about healing. If someone took the time to teach African-American women how to cook healthier food or or show them ways to change or transform their food into healthier options that's a way to help. We also have to look at portion size. Remember food is not just something that you're eating. Food also represents luxury, status, and approval from your peers.
So, black women with this issue. Can we please have a mature and open discussion about this? Everybody’s clowning each other, or trying to tear each other down. I’m guilty of it myself sometimes, but sometimes i take a social media fast. Because i’ve grown, been to therapy. I love y’all i want one of y’all to be my wife. But after my last marriage, dealing with a woman who had low self esteem, and going through therapy, i realize that below this tough, aggressive exterior you present, there is a lil girl crying because she never felt loved, so i want us to leave out the shit talking and pandering, so we all, us black folks, can win.
It is a Very Small Percentage of black women with thyroid problems causing weight. The Majority of Black Women eat their problems. Many Black Women I know had trauma causing them to be 400+ lbs. But why they delay getting therapy?
It’s a malicious envy / crabs in the bucket thing but I feel like this behavior towards this self improvement _(fitness, dieting, weight management)_ crosses the sex and race lines. It mainly depends on your social bubble and which groups you have the most proximity and interaction with
Food was always a celebration for most of us. The gathering, the cooking,the comradery as a tradition. "They also made food full of chemicals and fillers that the body wasn't meant to process. The insidiousness of using your own natural biological process to defeat you is both ingenious and evil.
as I reach my mid-30s my social media algorithms are starting to show me content around perimenopause and the importance of having a manageable weight alongside good habits; mentally, physically and with the food that we consume. I have done 5 years in total of therapy since 2017 and yes I can agree that dealing with and talking through childhood and early adulthood traumas means that I am now less likely to binge/ overeat, or snack on foods when I am triggered. I also no longer entertain family who cause my body to go into a stressful state. As I am no longer socialising around food and alcohol, I am not invited out as much and I don't order food in as much as I did in the past. It has been a journey, but I can attest to discussing the emotional pains leading to me having a better relationship with food and now I am aware of my hunger cues vs being upset/ angry/ lonely or frustrated.
There are ways to encourage and uplift African-American women without tearing them down. Within the African-American community food is used as a way to bring unity, show love, and even bring about a sense of community. There are some women who do hide their pain behind eating food and yet at the same time there is a way to show love and inspire change. I don't like it when content creators do their best to tear down someone they feel is beneath them and that's what took place in that video that I watched. Let's be honest most people don't want to see Black women cry, or be emotional or have any other feeling outside of anger and rage. When a Black woman cries people mock her. If a black woman cries she's immediately questioned and told to stop feeling sorry for herself. At what point are we going to uplift one another instead of constantly pointing fingers at each other. In my truthful observation Black women need compassionate love, not tough love all the time. It's so sad that we don't know how to truly love one another, embrace each other and show each other true compassion.
Alot of older women use to be hourglass or pear shaped,but due to emotional eating&avoiding Christian counseling,they became grossly obese.I struggled with obesity after my first child,then over time after joining the Seventh Day Adventist Church,I learned about the 8 Laws Of Health,&still apply them till this day!APTTMH!
Christian counseling has nothing to do with it. Glad you found some help in your church experience and God is a great healer, but obesity and the church are two seperate issues. Can God help you get a handle on your problems? Of course, but it's not automatic.
7:44 There was a article some years ago (I wish I could find it) that stated that fast food companies would hire chemists to find ingredients to make their foods not only taste good, but addictive. I also believe that bad food is in many ways, attributed to poverty because the quality has a correlation to costs. For example, a salad at Slopdonalds is more expensive than a burger and fries. On top of that, fruits and fresh vegetables tend to cost more, and last less (which is actually good because food should break down easily in your body, so that you can properly digest it; which leads to my last point) than so called processed food. Most processed foods, especially the so called comfort foods, tend to be starchy and fatty. On top of that, most women don't like to exercise. What this generation of the BBLs has taught women is what the microwave has taught us about food: You don't have to work for it and you can get it instantaneously. Remember that back in the "old days" (early 1900s until maybe the 1960s or 1970s), you had to prepare meals (which took effort and time); often getting your items from your own personal garden, chickens, livestock etc... Lastly (and say what you want about White Women but I've seen this in malls and parks), the majority of Black Women don't challenge nor support each other (by in large) to do workout challenges, walk around malls and parks with their strollers, or conduct zoom meetings where they could workout at home. Me personally, I work in the Oil and gas industry, so despite not being home on an average of a month, I both a workout kit with pushup bars, ab roller, straps and jump rope for less than $20 at Wal-Mart. Just like anything else in this country, the obesity rate was designed as a tool to rob (especially Black) women of their ability to maintain their figure, mental health, and even their femininity.
If curvy women don't exercise consistently and eat healthy,they tend to gain weight more in the abdominals,glutes,arms&hips for some,so when they neglect physical self-care,they become obese,in most cases grossly obese,as curvy women age,certain body parts sag,so it's best to create these good habits by age 40,because then it's harder to lose,not to say it's too late just harder.
2:15 Women don’t care about inside when he does not fit her height requirement. Have the same acceptance when you don’t fit his weight requirement. #equality I stopped eating breakfast and got active. Ended up dropping 65 lbs. if you have a floor you can do push-ups and sit-ups.
In my work, I have asked Black women, point blank and repeatedly: "What is the Black beauty standard?" - and I've NEVER gotten a straight answer. That, is quite telling, isn't it? It flies in the face of the notion of the idea that so many Black women are so very "confident" and have so much "high self esteem" - if that were true, I would get no shortage of Black women being all too willing to tell me what the Black beauty standard is. We all know that it's a bunch of BS. That's why so many Black women, to this very day nearly two years after his passing, hate on Kevin Samuels: Because he was one of the few Black men willing to tell the truth...
Greed is inexcusable because of its selfish to over indulge as there are people in poverty literally starving. How can you not realise how self-centred it is to wallow in gluttony when there's children going hungry in places with no access to resources. You don't realise how privileged you are to have the luxury of an abundance of sustainance
It's like fat is the new curvy in our community,most of our women are too lazy to workout,but find time to shop for expensive designer brands,get their hair,nails,lashes,feet done,&even go on girls trips,so why not keep that same attitude towards getting a gym membership or even purchasing a treadmill,Elliptical etc.?🤷🏾♀️
This video there is so much truth. I think black woke are still holding trauma from slavery that’s why we’re heavier in America. So many black women are suffering (including myself at times when dealing with anxiety) using food as temporary solution for the pain.
@@rdkirk3834 I don’t take away from your point but black women have always had bigger bodies even in slavery. As what you would call the “mammies” (who were usually the cooks) the “aunt jemimas”. Why wasn’t the mammie slim? Because she was around food trying to survive dealing with anxiety of being a slave!!! You don’t see any mammies in white culture during slavery .Even “wet nurses” which was the cruel practice of keeping a black woman pregnant all year long so she can breastfeed. Of course that woman would be heavier than the typical normal female slave. Those were real depictions of what some black women looked like during slavery. Same with black men. Black men were “breeded” out as bigger humans like mules with other big black women to make stronger slaves. If you don’t think those types of genetic breeding hasn’t effected what’s seen today in genetic makeup of black people (NFL PLAYERS and NBA PLAYERS or even Serena Williams) I might have to call you INSANE and deranged. That is the product of BIG strong black genetics.
@@naeb9486 Do the Google search I recommended, then walk outside and look at black women on the street today. It's a day/night difference. Black women may have had rounder buttocks, but up until the 1980s, young black women were almost always slender. I'm personally old enough to have _witnessed_ the transformation. I remember the young black women of my youth in the 1960s...I can pull out my school yearbooks. Then I look at young black girls the same age today and see the bleak difference.
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Yes you’re on point with this message: food is black folks 😢drugs. It take discipline!
🤷🏽♂️ It's more so our women's drug ✅ Black men are less overweight than white men ✅
So true. I was 322lb at my heaviest from overeating to deal with past trauma. I'm down to 140lbs now after getting help to deal with the extreme abuse I went through as a child and throughout my 20s. I'm a size 4/6 now and at my heaviest I was a size 24.
Congrats to you 👏🏾. I went through something similar and I’m too in size 4/6.
@@Styne-in7ug awesome job 👍👍👍
God bless 🙏🏽 both of you 2 sisters❗
@@warrent5587 thank you. And you as well
Thank you for sharing this. Very inspiring! Goes to show that trauma has a major impact on weight.
Is eating the problem or what one eat is the problem? Why not FREQUENTLY eat all the vegetables, fruits, nuts and drink water all you want, then OCCASIONALLY eat macaroni/cheese, white rice, French fries, oxtails, pork chops, pizza, chitterlings, spaghetti, donuts, pancakes, pastry and drink sodas infrequently?
Good suggestion.
I realized that this was my issue back in my early 20s. I remember being weighed in school and I was 215lbs in 10th grade. I started to work out and lost some weight, but I would yo-yo because I didn't have a handle on food. It wasn't until college that I thought about my childhood and realized I turned to food because I was abandoned by my father and neglected by my mother. I spent most of my childhood alone and eating just because the food was there when nobody else was. I'm way more in control of it now, but I still struggle with food. I've been down to about 140lbs for the past 7 years, but everyday is a struggle to not over eat.
Very important topic for discussion. It’s truly deeper than the surface level of “you’re big and need to stop eating”. As someone who’s lost a significant amount of weight at periods of time, I was literally bullied for loosing weight. The convo must include generational habits, mindset and self sabotaging limited beliefs
The aftermath of the overeating is the fat/obese body that we’re calling the ‘standard’. “Oh, I can over eat and *still* be considered thick, beautiful, a baddie, etc? Bring it.” All around there are problems.
🤦🏽♂️ This is so true ✅❗
I hate food and I hate eating, it’s a chore to me.
Food as a Drug. Eat to live, do not live to eat (Black) people.
You have such a kind, warm,
feminine and pretty face. You
should be a counselor😘
Thank you for such a lovely compliment ☺️!
RIP Mandisa
This video hit home. I'm a black man that's struggled with my weight since I was a kid. I got up to 290 lbs and a 43 inch waist after a very hard break-up with my GF at the time. Keto diet, tirzepatide shots, and therapy helped me get down to 220 lbs and a 35 inch waist.
Food is definitely used as a coping mechanism in our community (especially carb heavy foods like Mac and cheese).
In some ways it's not our fault. According to a study by the University of Florida, sugary foods can be as addictive as nicotine and cocaine. In other ways, we've normalized obesity in our culture. We invented "Thick Culture" and deluded ourselves to believe that fat and curvy were the same.
Many of us are also religious. The black church shames "sex, drugs, and rock and roll" but has precious little to say about gluttony. The collection plate would be empty if the pastor ever said a word about obesity in most cases.
Our culture is unhealthy, and much of what we call Soul Food is struggle food that no longer benefits us. There are just some things we need to let go.
Thank you for this! Very good points made. 🎯💯
Curvy is considered hourglass or pear shapes.
Ranch salad dressing on lasagna at 1am is insane. Thats all ima say.
i eat to be full. i need to switch to eat for fuel.
i eat to just to not be hungry or have hungry pains.
but i dont care about eating, i just dont like my stomach making sounds especially when im around people.
I’m binging on your work, @ work hahaha bless and thank you
Thank you for watching! 🙌🏾🙏🏾
You are on to something. It's addiction in our community. Women,men and children
Not enough emphasis is placed on the need to address the underlying mental/psychological/emotional issue that drive overeating...for both sexes. Late last year, I was at the homegoing service of a blood relative who died of a heart attack. In the last year of his life he topped 400 lbs. and was no longer fully mobile, but he cooked every day (and often these were extravagant meals)...while seated. I also had a former fellow church member who defeated gastric bypass. She ate herself back into obesity, in spite of the surgery.
Was coming to make this comment. There’s definitely underlying issues present and for both sexes when poor eating habits become noticeably problematic. My concern is Especially when it comes to BW, there’s no easy way to suggest healthier eating habits and consistent exercise without hurting feelings, being called a misogynist, being told you hate BW or even being blocked by the defense it’s somehow natural for Modern BW to be obese. Sensitive topic for sure.
@@seensay2132I’ve had teeter totter weight since h.s usually leaning towards small. I’m a size 4/6 at 38 y.o. I’ve noticed that we put more emphasis on superficial appearance opposed to actual health. I don’t like being small because it’s not the aesthetic. However, it is my natural body type and I’ve learned to love my athletic/modelesque form even though I’m often passed up for the women who are out of shape in comparison to me but, have the curves and”thickness” in all the “right” places. It’s a double edge sword. I know someday, someone will prefer legs and a pretty smile over a big butt and a pretty smile😂
@@BayouBarbie504 I’m going by the clinical health term for what Doctors determine is obese for both genders. There are absolutely exceptions. But for most clinically considered obese or even underweight, there’s usually direct correlation to healthier eating habits and consistent exercise (or lack thereof). My only point is that for those who fit those categories, there’s usually a litany of defensive excuses even superficial to simply avoid the facts healthier eating habits and more exercise are better to achieve healthy weight. Not everyone wants to acknowledge that or adopt best practices.
@@seensay2132 I am average weight, taking accountability for my actions. Btw well said.
Very common in the Black community. Very sad. Thank you for sharing this!
I believe it can be a sign of loneliness and hormonal imbalances, particularly after age 30. A lot is stress and trauma related . Break generational curses and start inner self care.
It's hard to feel your feelings in a society that makes you repress them. Food can also be a way to bring about healing. If someone took the time to teach African-American women how to cook healthier food or or show them ways to change or transform their food into healthier options that's a way to help. We also have to look at portion size. Remember food is not just something that you're eating. Food also represents luxury, status, and approval from your peers.
Great point about portion size and food as healing. 💎
So, black women with this issue. Can we please have a mature and open discussion about this? Everybody’s clowning each other, or trying to tear each other down. I’m guilty of it myself sometimes, but sometimes i take a social media fast. Because i’ve grown, been to therapy. I love y’all i want one of y’all to be my wife. But after my last marriage, dealing with a woman who had low self esteem, and going through therapy, i realize that below this tough, aggressive exterior you present, there is a lil girl crying because she never felt loved, so i want us to leave out the shit talking and pandering, so we all, us black folks, can win.
I approve this message!
It is a Very Small Percentage of black women with thyroid problems causing weight. The Majority of Black Women eat their problems. Many Black Women I know had trauma causing them to be 400+ lbs. But why they delay getting therapy?
Body positivity
the food IS the therapy
I’ve had black women poke fun at me for working out and losing weight before.
I went through something similar. I’ve always been thin and black women would make fun of me or even insult me for not having any “meat” on me.
Jealousy is cruel to the grave
People behind my back said I was losing too much weight... I was size six and 5 foot 7 inches. Before I was 14/16. Crazy.
@@Fitman2024Washright!!!!! 😮
It’s a malicious envy / crabs in the bucket thing but I feel like this behavior towards this self improvement _(fitness, dieting, weight management)_ crosses the sex and race lines. It mainly depends on your social bubble and which groups you have the most proximity and interaction with
Food was always a celebration for most of us. The gathering, the cooking,the comradery as a tradition. "They also made food full of chemicals and fillers that the body wasn't meant to process.
The insidiousness of using your own natural biological process to defeat you is both ingenious and evil.
as I reach my mid-30s my social media algorithms are starting to show me content around perimenopause and the importance of having a manageable weight alongside good habits; mentally, physically and with the food that we consume. I have done 5 years in total of therapy since 2017 and yes I can agree that dealing with and talking through childhood and early adulthood traumas means that I am now less likely to binge/ overeat, or snack on foods when I am triggered. I also no longer entertain family who cause my body to go into a stressful state. As I am no longer socialising around food and alcohol, I am not invited out as much and I don't order food in as much as I did in the past. It has been a journey, but I can attest to discussing the emotional pains leading to me having a better relationship with food and now I am aware of my hunger cues vs being upset/ angry/ lonely or frustrated.
There are ways to encourage and uplift African-American women without tearing them down. Within the African-American community food is used as a way to bring unity, show love, and even bring about a sense of community.
There are some women who do hide their pain behind eating food and yet at the same time there is a way to show love and inspire change. I don't like it when content creators do their best to tear down someone they feel is beneath them and that's what took place in that video that I watched.
Let's be honest most people don't want to see Black women cry, or be emotional or have any other feeling outside of anger and rage. When a Black woman cries people mock her. If a black woman cries she's immediately questioned and told to stop feeling sorry for herself. At what point are we going to uplift one another instead of constantly pointing fingers at each other.
In my truthful observation Black women need compassionate love, not tough love all the time. It's so sad that we don't know how to truly love one another, embrace each other and show each other true compassion.
Good points. I am not here for the “mean girl” conversations about weight. Esp coming from anyone who has never struggled with weight.
Don't forget people feed on the bread of life who is Jesus.
Amen 🙏🏽
Alot of older women use to be hourglass or pear shaped,but due to emotional eating&avoiding Christian counseling,they became grossly obese.I struggled with obesity after my first child,then over time after joining the Seventh Day Adventist Church,I learned about the 8 Laws Of Health,&still apply them till this day!APTTMH!
Christian counseling has nothing to do with it. Glad you found some help in your church experience and God is a great healer, but obesity and the church are two seperate issues.
Can God help you get a handle on your problems? Of course, but it's not automatic.
7:44 There was a article some years ago (I wish I could find it) that stated that fast food companies would hire chemists to find ingredients to make their foods not only taste good, but addictive. I also believe that bad food is in many ways, attributed to poverty because the quality has a correlation to costs.
For example, a salad at Slopdonalds is more expensive than a burger and fries. On top of that, fruits and fresh vegetables tend to cost more, and last less (which is actually good because food should break down easily in your body, so that you can properly digest it; which leads to my last point) than so called processed food.
Most processed foods, especially the so called comfort foods, tend to be starchy and fatty. On top of that, most women don't like to exercise. What this generation of the BBLs has taught women is what the microwave has taught us about food: You don't have to work for it and you can get it instantaneously. Remember that back in the "old days" (early 1900s until maybe the 1960s or 1970s), you had to prepare meals (which took effort and time); often getting your items from your own personal garden, chickens, livestock etc... Lastly (and say what you want about White Women but I've seen this in malls and parks), the majority of Black Women don't challenge nor support each other (by in large) to do workout challenges, walk around malls and parks with their strollers, or conduct zoom meetings where they could workout at home. Me personally, I work in the Oil and gas industry, so despite not being home on an average of a month, I both a workout kit with pushup bars, ab roller, straps and jump rope for less than $20 at Wal-Mart.
Just like anything else in this country, the obesity rate was designed as a tool to rob (especially Black) women of their ability to maintain their figure, mental health, and even their femininity.
Very well said!! 💎🙌🏾🎯💯. I remember being called a white girl because I run/jog. Smh.
This is what I do actually..our lawfirm gets those chemicals FDA approval...I hardly eat fast food now.
Food let me numb all my feelings. If I was lonely, I eat. If I was depress, I would eat If I was angry I eat. If I was happy I eat.
If curvy women don't exercise consistently and eat healthy,they tend to gain weight more in the abdominals,glutes,arms&hips for some,so when they neglect physical self-care,they become obese,in most cases grossly obese,as curvy women age,certain body parts sag,so it's best to create these good habits by age 40,because then it's harder to lose,not to say it's too late just harder.
2:15 Women don’t care about inside when he does not fit her height requirement. Have the same acceptance when you don’t fit his weight requirement. #equality I stopped eating breakfast and got active. Ended up dropping 65 lbs. if you have a floor you can do push-ups and sit-ups.
😂😂😂💯 TRUTH
In my work, I have asked Black women, point blank and repeatedly: "What is the Black beauty standard?" - and I've NEVER gotten a straight answer. That, is quite telling, isn't it? It flies in the face of the notion of the idea that so many Black women are so very "confident" and have so much "high self esteem" - if that were true, I would get no shortage of Black women being all too willing to tell me what the Black beauty standard is. We all know that it's a bunch of BS. That's why so many Black women, to this very day nearly two years after his passing, hate on Kevin Samuels: Because he was one of the few Black men willing to tell the truth...
Greed is inexcusable because of its selfish to over indulge as there are people in poverty literally starving. How can you not realise how self-centred it is to wallow in gluttony when there's children going hungry in places with no access to resources. You don't realise how privileged you are to have the luxury of an abundance of sustainance
It's like fat is the new curvy in our community,most of our women are too lazy to workout,but find time to shop for expensive designer brands,get their hair,nails,lashes,feet done,&even go on girls trips,so why not keep that same attitude towards getting a gym membership or even purchasing a treadmill,Elliptical etc.?🤷🏾♀️
Facts!
This video there is so much truth. I think black woke are still holding trauma from slavery that’s why we’re heavier in America. So many black women are suffering (including myself at times when dealing with anxiety) using food as temporary solution for the pain.
But if you do a Google image search, you don't see a lot of heavy black women _until_ the 1980s.
@@rdkirk3834 I don’t take away from your point but black women have always had bigger bodies even in slavery. As what you would call the “mammies” (who were usually the cooks) the “aunt jemimas”. Why wasn’t the mammie slim? Because she was around food trying to survive dealing with anxiety of being a slave!!!
You don’t see any mammies in white culture during slavery .Even “wet nurses” which was the cruel practice of keeping a black woman pregnant all year long so she can breastfeed. Of course that woman would be heavier than the typical normal female slave. Those were real depictions of what some black women looked like during slavery. Same with black men. Black men were “breeded” out as bigger humans like mules with other big black women to make stronger slaves. If you don’t think those types of genetic breeding hasn’t effected what’s seen today in genetic makeup of black people (NFL PLAYERS and NBA PLAYERS or even Serena Williams) I might have to call you INSANE and deranged. That is the product of BIG strong black genetics.
@@naeb9486 Do the Google search I recommended, then walk outside and look at black women on the street today. It's a day/night difference. Black women may have had rounder buttocks, but up until the 1980s, young black women were almost always slender. I'm personally old enough to have _witnessed_ the transformation. I remember the young black women of my youth in the 1960s...I can pull out my school yearbooks. Then I look at young black girls the same age today and see the bleak difference.
@@naeb9486 Try to prove that myth. There are enough photographs available. Take my suggestion and study the actual evidence.
No excuses loose weight
If it doesn't fit then you must acquit
Loosing weight is easy, we're just told the opposite of what to do. Try carnivore diet.
Hello friend. Not a complaint but.. try having you face the sun and not the camera. If that is on purpose my apologies.
Also having fake hair as pounds to your face!
@@Fitman2024Wash and are a gay bait!! 😂😂
Thank you for the feedback! I always welcome constructive feedback. 🙏🏾😊