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Originally Posted by AsylumVoid
Where do you stop? If I was a size 8 how do I know people wouldn't find me attractive because my nose is too big or crooked? or because my boobs were too big or small? or because my skin wasn't perfect? The list of things any one can worry about concerning their appearance is endless.
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I couldn't agree more. One can obsess about everything, be it cellulite (skinny people can also have it) stretch marks, scars, being too short or too tall...
If you feel good about yourself and have people around you that love you for who you are, not what size you are... this is invaluable. And I firmly believe that the people who truly care about you, or a doctor, would tell you to lose weight if they believed it would be for your benefit, even though it might hurt you.
I used to be a size 16, but my endocrinologist told me to lose weight because it affected my hormones, or I had to take pills. Due to my aversion to medication, I chose to lose weight.
However, here people are a bit image-obsessed, and have near-to-zero tolerance of anything that looks different. So I'm used to comments like JCC's (I've had boyfriends telling me to lose weight), and when I was younger I used to get depressed and cry, I even went through a spell of anorexia and then boulimia, but I managed to get over it.
Now that I'm 35, I know that all this is trivial, and the only thing that is important is to take good care of my health.
OK, I stop now. My post is also all over the place, sorry...
and P.S. SweetJane and AsylumVoid, thanks for the compliments!