Fat.
Fat. The weight of the word has always been harder to carry than the extra pounds I have nearly all my life
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You'd Be Surprised... Or Maybe Not.
I remember the first moment I was made to feel bad about my weight.
I was 6 years old and a boy at school told me I was fat. I went home t
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I'm okay. I'm grateful.
Objectively, I am average, nothing special. But I think we all know... it really doesn't matter, how we look objectively.
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Being Kind to My Body
My weight has fluctuated between 125lbs. and 200lbs. over the last four years. I had an eating disorder (NOS), which took a long time to...
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A New Definition of Confidence
Every day of high school I weighed 246 lbs. & today I weigh exactly the same. When I look at these pictures I can’t help but notice that...
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Learn Not To Be So Hard On Ourselves
I, like everybody else, question my weight sometimes, and I'm working on not being too hard on myself. For the women out there...
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Hope To Like My Reflection
I have anorexia. Everyday is a struggle to live in my skin. I'm not happy with my body, but I am trying to be. I don't know where that...
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Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis And Body Image Challenging
I was born with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis. I was a fat baby, however I question where all of the weight went as I quickly grew into a...
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Proud And Healthy For My Children
I'm currently 33 years old--I'm 5'8 and 143 lbs. I have struggled it seems with weight since I was about 8 years old. At 12 I started...
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Hoping For Empowerment
All my adult life I've been 5'7" and weighed between 125-130 lbs. I have a small frame but had enormous breasts. I hated them. I took...
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Strength And Empowerment
I've struggled with weight my entire life. By the winter after high school graduation, I weighed 195lbs. This was mortifying to me....
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I Am Human And I Love Life
I have struggled with my weight for as long as I can remember. I have been anorexic and bulimic. Even at my age of 54, I still suffer...
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Feelings Of Lightness And Possibility
I've been overweight since I was around 9, and had been obese (thanks, depression/alcohol abuse!) since I was at least 23, but despite...
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I Have Stopped Listening
I have struggled with my weight since IÂ was a little girl. IÂ started gaining weight rapidly when IÂ was 10, now 14 years later I'm still...
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Most Amazing Thing
I was an anorexic for a little over 8 years. It was diagnosed the summer before my 6th grade year--no one really knows when it started...
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I Do Not Need The Guilt Of Being Human
I'm only 18 and throughout my short life I've always had problems with myself and my weight. I've been 6 stone and 12 stone and no matter...
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I Need To Do This For Me
I will be 26 this Friday. I started gaining weight my junior year of high school, my senior year I got married and pregnant. I didn't...
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The Depth Of Beauty
I became self critical of my body when I was 7 or 8 years old because I felt I was too fat. I dealt with these feelings all through...
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You Find Your Happy Weight
I was about 12 by the time I noticed the scale rising. I'd always been under 100 pounds, then suddenly, puberty made me stack on weight...
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People Cannot See The Work
I've had issues with weight my entire life. I remember kids chanting "cow man" to the theme of Batman. My parents would ask me if...
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