Jim KatsoulisJim AI — Your Personal Guide to Living at Your Goal Weight

do you even want to lose weight?

9 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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Jim Katsoulis challenges the assumption that overweight people always want to lose weight, arguing many have subconscious reasons (e.g., fear of loose skin, unwanted attention, negative relationship effects) that keep them from trying. He urges listeners to become crystal clear about whether they truly want to lose weight before attempting it.

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Do you even want to lose weight? Because if you're overweight, not losing weight, the answer is probably no. And you need to see this clearly. It's not that you can't lose weight. It's that you literally don't want to lose weight. But these wants are subconscious wants that you may be out of your awareness. So I'll give you some examples of what I'm talking about. You may be worried about loose skin and so you don't want to lose weight. You may be worried that if you lose the weight, you're going to get attention from the opposite sex that you don't want to deal with. So you don't want to lose weight. You may be worried that if you lose weight it's going to impact your relationship negatively. So you don't want to lose weight. And there's a million more reasons like this. So. So before you even attempt to lose weight, you need to get crystal clear that you actually want to lose weight.