I Asked ChatGPT to Help Me Lose Weight — But Not in the Way You Think.

I Asked ChatGPT to Help Me Lose Weight — But Not in the Way You Think.

Not for a meal plan. Not for a calorie count. Not for a motivational speech about believing in myself.

I asked it the questions I was too embarrassed to ask anyone else.

I’ve carried a lot of shame about my weight for a long time. And the confusing part, the part that made the shame worse, was that I genuinely didn’t eat the way people assume fat people eat. I wasn’t eating takeaways every night. I wasn’t living on crisps and chocolate. I watched other people eat considerably more than me and couldn’t understand why my body worked so differently. For years I thought I was missing something obvious that everyone else had figured out.

Turns out I had figured out something. Just not in the right direction.

Mayonnaise. Butter. Olive oil.

That’s it. That was my thing. Healthy fats, used generously, every single day, in amounts I had never once stopped to think about. Nobody tells you that a couple of tablespoons of mayo and a good glug of olive oil can quietly add several hundred calories to an otherwise reasonable day. I had been doing this for years. Feeling confused. Feeling like my body was broken. Feeling, if I’m honest, a bit stupid.

So asking anyone about it - a doctor, a nutritionist, a friend - felt impossible. There was too much history of failed attempts, too much of not wanting to say out loud that I was trying again, too much vulnerability in the whole subject. I’ve never been someone who announces a diet. Too many times of people knowing and then watching. Too many times of it not working.

What I found with AI - and this sounds small but it genuinely wasn’t - was that I could just ask. No judgement. No memory of the last time I asked the same question. No look. No well-meaning advice I hadn’t requested. I could type “why am I not losing weight if I don’t eat much” at eleven at night and just get an answer.

And then I could ask the follow up question. And the one after that.

I started using it for all the things that felt too awkward or too trivial or too embarrassing to bring to a real person. Meal ideas for the days when I had no appetite but needed to eat something. How to respond when someone commented on my weight in a way that felt loaded. What to do with the half portions left over when my appetite had changed. How to make a shopping list when I had low energy and couldn’t think straight. Small practical things that don’t sound like much individually but add up to quite a lot of mental load across a week.

I know I’m not alone in this. So many people I know are quietly googling things they’d never say out loud, searching in private, not quite finding what they need because they can’t phrase the question confidently enough to get a useful answer. AI changes that. You can ramble. You can be vague. You can say “I don’t know how to explain this but” and it will work with you until it understands.

That’s why I created AI for Weight Loss - 101 ChatGPT Prompts. Not because ChatGPT is a diet guru. But because having the right question ready, on a low energy day, when you don’t have the words and you don’t want to explain yourself to another human, can make the whole thing feel a lot less like something you have to do completely alone. It helped with meal planning, low-energy days, smaller portions, appetite changes, confidence wobbles, and the ordinary admin of trying again.

The Size Shift

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