For some people, losing weight and getting down to an ideal healthier number on the scale means happiness. For others, it means looking and feeling different physically, but still carrying a mental load that won’t go away. Jill, a TikTok creator, got candid about this in a vulnerable post showing her body before and after weight loss, as well as a new version in which she feels more comfortable.
But the overarching idea behind the video is that she did not magically become happier just because she lost weight. In her initial video clip, she says she just wants to be comfortable and wear a simple T-shirt and be confident in it. In the next shot, she admits she isn’t happy with herself even though she lost the weight she hoped to. And for many, it sparked a conversation about weight loss among women.
@jill200016 Healing starts from within not how you look on the outside. I have dealt with both extremes and now my focus is on being healthy and happy! Here is your reminder if you are going through either side to give love to yourself! Sometimes the grass is not greener on the other side 💚
♬ original sound – Mama Jill❤️
The TikTok creator’s weight loss transformation didn’t change everything for her.
Jill’s TikTok shows that losing weight did not magically make her happier or even give her all the confidence she thought it would. In her first “after” clip in the video, Jill admits that she “just wants to feel pretty.” Despite losing a lot of weight prior to the clip, and the evidence being apparent in her appearance, Jill says it didn’t immediately transform her feelings about herself.
“Clearly, it doesn’t matter what size I am,” Jill says in the TikTok video. “Because this is the smallest size they make.”
A year after that, Jill made another video, a clip of which she includes in this particular post. She isn’t as small as she was in her initial “after” video following her weight loss transformation. But, she says, she is “trying to just embrace this curvy mom bod.” And compared to the second clip, she seems much more confident and happy with herself in the third clip of the video.
She adds that viewers should “focus on being happy and not small.”
Her goal with the video seems to be to show other people out there on their own health or weight loss journeys that it isn’t necessarily about the number on the scale. Clearly, after losing weight, she did not automatically become happier with herself overall.
“Healing starts from within, not how you look on the outside,” she wrote in the caption of the video. “I have dealt with both extremes and now my focus is on being healthy and happy! Here is your reminder if you are going through either side to give love to yourself! Sometimes the grass is not greener on the other side.”
She has other videos where she shares similar messages for her followers. She is also learning to embrace her body after having a baby. In another video, she says how important it is to get herself ready for the day to mentally feel better and put herself in a better mood. For Jill, it’s now about finding ways to be happy and to work on her mental health rather than focusing so much on her weight loss.
