We often have a terrible relationship with our weight. We’re too fat, too thin, our weights on the wrong part of our body etc. How much does your weight bother you?
Please don’t post your weight, numbers can be triggering for people with a history of disordered eating
I’m not thrilled with my weight but mainly just because I want to be fit and healthy.
I don’t want to be strong like man who look pretty. I want to be strong like bitch that fight bears in the forest.
Strong like a bitch that fights bears in the forest? I love that, it’s my new life motto
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My biggest issue with my weight is feeling like I can’t talk to anyone about it because I struggle to keep weight on, rather than lose it. I had to see a nutritionist years ago because I was bordering on underweight. Normally I can keep to a specific number, but when I stop paying attention I start loosing it.
I’m “skinny fat”. But I can’t talk to many people about the problems of maintaining weight because from the outside they think I’m fit and healthy and should shut up because gaining is “easy”.
I have cystic fibrosis so gaining weight has been a lifelong struggle for me, I had a feeding tube for ten years because I wasn’t able to stop losing weight when I was really sick. All the “must be nice” sneers are especially obnoxious when your low weight is part of a vicious disease actively killing you. Everyone is incredibly rude about it, accusing me of having an eating disorder, rude remarks, dirty looks… I very much believe all bodies are beautiful bodies and it’s hurtful when larger women shit all over me despite the fact I defend them
I went through a bad period where my life basically imploded a couple years back. My mental health took a beating as a result and between that and the stress i lost a shitton of weight. Mentioned i’d dropped down to the same weight i was at 17.
The number of “congrats” comments i got were sickening. A fucking 45 year old woman should not weigh the same as a 17 year old active gymnast
My weight only bothers me when it starts affecting my knees.
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I’m not considered overweight based on my height, but I weigh about 5-10 pounds more than I’d like to, since any excess weight seems to go to my tummy. I was a little mortified when the internet invented a new word to make people feel inadequate – skinny fat – because, yep, that’s me. 😮💨 I can hide my stomach pretty well with clothes, and people say I’m thin, but it can hurt a little looking in the mirror, and swimming is out of the question.
I work out every day, but I just can’t seem to get get the flat tummy I had in my college days.
Skinny fat is kinda me! It’s all in my belly I look pregnant, it’s bizarre and I’m really conscious of it. I’ve found since I hit 40 that’s got worse and the last 12 months it’s been really bad. I’m having to change how I dress cos dresses are more forgiving than trousers
Is it peri menopause? My mom gets a really bloated tummy which is very similar to a little pregnant belly. She read it’s very common and can last for like up to ten years, which sucks. None of her normal clothes or styles work on this completely new body type.
I’ve been wondering that, I don’t have any other symptoms though. I know that’s gonna be the next big thing in my life and I’m not looking forward to it!
I love high-waisted jeans for the same reasons! I can get into all my old dresses, but they can be a little tight, so those are for special occasions only until I have a flat tummy again 🙃
Ah high waisted jeans… especially in stretchy fabric
It bothers me quite a bit, honestly. Being on hormones kind of makes it difficult to maintain a healthy weight for me at times.
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It doesn’t bother me as much, but I care about my body and my health a lot more than I did pre-transition. I’m currently at a weight I would consider fair and do not want to gain anymore. I’m at a sweet spot where any more makes me feel meh but any less makes my bone structure more noticeable gives dysphoria.
Whatever I do I’m stuck right at the edge of “underweight” IMC so I don’t care anymore 🤷🏻♀️
Best exercise of my life for 6 months ? 55kg !
Worst depression crash and eating garbage for 6 months ? 55kg !
That needle just never moves, I guess I’m just glad it’s stuck where it’s at and not somewhere it’s causing me any other issues.
I had some unhealthy eating habits in the first year I had a kid, and I seem to be able to maintain the same size easily but getting smaller is hard. I actually don’t mind what I see in the mirror, I think my shape is nice and I’m healthy enough to do all the things I enjoy, but what really bothers me is I can’t fit into my favorite clothes 😭 I love clothes, I love playing dress up, and in the decade prior to having a baby I had found some amazing second hand finds that brought me joy and delight. I have a panoply of pretty things that helped define my personal style, but now only a small fraction of my wardrobe fits me. I can still wear some pieces, and I’ve found a couple new things for my current size, but I look in my closet with longing to wear my beautiful clothes again.
I think I’m a healthy normal weight, but it bothers me because I’m not on hormones yet so it’s still distributed on me in a way that’s dysphoria inducing. That’s actually something I was dysphoric about for years before recognizing it for what it was. I used to run marathons, before my life went down the drain hard. Regained weight since then, but more because of going back to a shitty diet and hotting twink death age than getting less excersize, I think.
i feel comfortable with my weight despite being definitely in the “underweight” metric (120 lbs, 6’). mainly because i know once i start hrt it should distribute in the right places.
Its hard tho because a lot of people comment that I look anorexic even tho I cant do shit about it. I eat 2 meals a day + snacks, its just that I exercise a lot so it gets burned fast
I was overweight through my teens and into my adult life. I finally got down to a healthy weight by having a partner who would hold me accountable about working out and eating healthy. I am at a healthy weight now (not my ideal) but I have fat in the wrong places that I can’t get rid of (lower belly, thighs). I look good in most clothes, but I hate wearing bathing suits and yoga pants (I love yoga so I still do) because they emphasize those parts. 😭
I guess to answer the question, most of the time I’m good with the way my body looks with clothes on, but I struggle with it still.
Also, anyone who has lost major weight knows it takes a long time for your body to “bounce back” (the saggy skin drawing back) and my body isn’t quite finished with that yet. I will say, it’s so much better than it was for anyone experiencing this. It just takes time.
I know I shouldn’t, but I’ve always had an issue with my weight. I went to an all girls school where anorexia was a way of life and my mother was really controlling about food. I used to restrict horribly as a teenager and was underweight. I wouldn’t eat a lot of foods and sadly used to purge.
Even know it’s ingrained into me that Eating Is Wrong. I don’t weigh myself as it can get obsessive. It’s not helped by being in my 40s, all the weight is on my belly and I can’t lose it easily. I notice the difference with lads at work, they just eat something if they want it. Women at work just don’t.
On the plus side I’m better than I used to be regarding it!
I’m glad to say I’ve developed a much better relationship with my weight over the last couple of decades. I had just crossed into the “Obese” BMI category before I decided I needed to make a change, and since then I’ve lost just over 1/5th of my total weight. At the rate I’m currently going I’ll reach my old goals in another couple of years, but since starting hormone therapy and developing hips I’m now much more comfortable with carrying a bit of bellyfat and my goals now are less about reaching some arbitrary number as finding a happy equilibrium between my desire to be active and my desire to enjoy sweets.
Holy shit that’s incredible! You did really well that’s a major change and hard work.
All I did was start tracking my weight once or twice a day with an app that averages out the last few weeks to estimate my caloric balance. Turns out that I only needed small changes to diet and exercise to get into a persistent (if somewhat unstable) decline, quitting sodas except for special occasions is probably most of what got me down from my peak weight to the level this graph started at:
(Cropped out all the numbers except for dates, each horizontal line on this chart is 4 lbs)
What’s fun is how you can see my general stress levels and major life events listed out here precisely. You can watch Covid fuck me up, then a bump from moving to a new state that fell off when the old house finally sold. That big spike started on the day I realized I was the only thing left keeping me from starting hormone therapy, and ended the day when I finally talked to my partners about it and got (most of) their blessings 🥰. The actual day I started hormone therapy is buried in that long decline that got me back on track.
Anyways, I guess my point is that life happens and we do our best when we aren’t stressing out about it. Baby steps are usually all it takes to start buulding momentum for real change.