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It's not normal bb. It may seem like it's normal behavior since society is constantly pushing things about weight-- but trust me, it's not.

It's normal to sometimes not be happy-- but if you're feeling enormous amounts of guilt after eating & constantly asking if you "look okay"... then that's not okay.

You deserve to feel better than that. <3

You sure you don't mean hypERthyroid? That's the one that usually makes people skinny. Or are you saying you started gaining weight when you were 19?

sameeee but i was a 4 a few years ago and I WANT TO GO BACK damnnit
i've lost some weight but nothing crazy.

I am an 18/20 (depending on the style of the pants). I dropped from a 22 to an 18, over the course of a year and a few months.

I am proud of myselg.

14/16 right now. At my heaviest I was a 26.

10 sometimes 12.

would love to be a true 8

12/14, depending on the store/brand

I'm between a 2-4 depending on brand.

Usually around a 12 but sometimes a size up or down depending

size 6, usually. I am short tho so I look bigger

6 or 8 depending on the pants. If they sit on the waist I sometimes wear a 4, but my hips are pretty big.

30/29, or a 10/8 depending on the store.

I am in the same boat with the hips and boobage thing, and I understand the frustration. On the subject of boobs, I am a 38 DDD and I recently bought a shirt by mail that was a lady's fit tee XXL (said that it was a 40' across the chest), it arrives and it barely fits over the boobs. Now I have it stretched out enough where it does not look cheap because of my chest (and I don't dare put it in a dryer after washing it). I am fed up with having to wear tee's that are made for guys just because a regular sized lady's tee does not fit properly. Guys tees just make big boobed women look matronly, I know that's how it is in my case.

i am starting to think after reading this post that i need to get my horomone levels checked. I have completely overhauled my diet and lifestyle two years ago (working out, strength training, regular cleanses, working with a trainer, watching what i eat, etc) and i have been stuck between 168-174lbs and between a 10/12 in pants this ENTIRE TIME. no matter how much i work out or eat right my body holds onto weight like its job. i was having some bad side affects with mirena, and after doing some research, learned that inability to lose weight was one of them and went off of it in march. i am still in the same stuck weight pattern despite being on a horomone free birth control. i have been having weird periods and still can't figure out what's up (normal thyroid function).

thanks for listening, but how did you get your PCOS diagnosed? what tests were done?

Ditto!

my family are idiots too, but more so than yours...not only do they say shitty things about my weight, looks, and life choices in general but also about how I "better marry a jewish boy!!!!" (they are also diehard conservative republicans, homophobic, and racist). I'm bisexual and if they found out I'm pretty sure shit would hit the fan. My cousin married an asian guy and had a child with him and wow it did NOT go well, they said some awful awful things behind her back to me about how the baby "has asian eyes" I was just like WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE???

so I recently started playing games with them and having some fun with it. I'm slowly but surely dropping hints that I'm in a committed loving relationship with a middle eastern woman....I think I may be disowned in about two months.

/tmi sorry

That is disgusting. I hate when family members undermine you like that.
My nanna said the opposite to me - "You're so tall, you could be a model. Except for your face".

The obesity is often a symptom of the disease, not the other way around. Do your research better.

wait are you suggesting that people get PCOS because they're already obese? Because that's not what that sentence says. It says the obesity is caused by insulin-resistance.

I seriously feel like you Googled PCOS and obesity and chose to cite whoever backed up your preconceived assumption that being fat gives you PCOS instead of realizing how incredibly complicated PCOS actually is. More reputable sites like the U.S. National Library of Medicine, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health and the Mayo Clinic all state that the cause of PCOS is unknown and complicated but research points to genetics and, of course, hormones. Studies done have indicated that obesity can exacerbate PCOS but, like I said, it's incredibly complicated. A majority of the issues associated with PCOS are linked to hormones and especially androgens. Excess androgen production can lead to insulin resistance and insulin resistance can lead to high androgen production so for a lot of people there's really no way to know which one came first. That being said, losing weight and increasing insulin sensitivity does not reverse PCOS or a woman's levels of androgens or testosterone and there are women with no insulin resistance issues that still have PCOS.

Just go the fuck away tbh.

i used that for a while when it was still prescription. it's fine. don't over do it and don't think you can eat pizza and chili and take some and be fine because your asshole and clothes will pay for it. you have to eat lean meats vegetables and such and excercise. basically it doesn't do much unless you are already sticking to a rigid plan

if you do plan on taking it read all the instructions and take a multivitamin with a meal that you don't plan on taking the alli with. it can cause vitamin k deficiency

all I know about Alli is anal leakage

I agree with all this so hard. I am still a big person, but I've lost a lot of weight and people have been treating me completely differently since I did. It took me years to get into the appropriate mindset to lose weight, too - that I wanted to be HEALTHY not SKINNY.

I'm going to need a Cliff's Notes version because that clip is over an hour long. I did see something about soft drinks and childhood obesity and I do feel like a lot of people don't know just how unhealthy HFCS really is.