Body Issues?

Cakecup:

Meh I'm happy.
I have crazy hair but I like it, it's just me.
I think it's all about confidence anyway (:

And sadly, confidence is the trait which I lack.
If I do feel confident or pretty, it goes away after a few moments or looking at a mirror.

I have a friend who always looks so much better than me, so much thinner... But I dunno, 'cause I leant her some of my clothes and they're too small for her.
Which is weird.

I blame my messed up self-image on my friends. I wasn't that concerned with my appearance before I met them... but for some reason they like to point out everyone's flaws... and it makes me really paranoid.

Apparently I have really wide hips, abnorably large ears, sickly pale skin, and I'm really short.

I'm trying my hardest not to let it get to me, but its difficult sometimes.

anything else;:

I'm always self conscious when I'm around my friends. Only because one of my friends is rail thin, and I'm just... Not. When I hear or see people laughing, I always think they're laughing at me, too.

:(

I always think people are laughing at me. About my body, the way I walk or my clothes, anything at all.

The amount of weight-related issues, not just on here, around me is ridiculous. What annoys me more than anything are the perfectly slim people moaning about a non-existant stomach. Or girls that are skinnier than myself saying, 'Oh, I'm so fat', but insisting that I'm not. Well, actually, I know I'm not. I eat 2000 calories a day, I'll eat a muffin or whatever and not think twice.
Really, you can lose weight without trying to live off of apple slices and lettace. I actually get annoyed at the amount of people that are developing eating disorders, and hurting themselves over it (that sounds awful, I know).

I have bad days where I just look in the mirror and go, 'ugh', but I'm mostly over it. I don't find myself particularly attractive, but meh - it's not really something I spend much time thinking about.

since i have sub cliinic anorexia i dont eat fat at all so my hormones dont work and my body got stuck in being like a little girls so now i dont have a narrow waist nor broad hips and even though i totally hate it i cant bring myself to eat more

People stare at me like I'm a freak, but I'm used to it. I laugh sometimes at their looks: :omfg:
I can't run to save my life, but I'm not too big, and not too skinny. I don't like the way my body is though. And if I don't use a hair straightener after a shower or I'm caught in the rain or humdity, my hair goes poof!

I'm fat.
Proper fat.
End of story.

I don't really think anyone can be truly happy with their body. I'm not fat, I know that, but I still don't like my body.
My friends say I should eat a sandwich, and that mkaes me feel to skinny, and then I just feel gross.
It's not fun, but Itry to forget about it.

I'm perfectly happy with my body from my ribs up; I think my hips and thighs are disgusting. :file:

I'm learning to love the bits I used to hate, I'm trying anyway.

I do have a wobbly belly though...which I do really really dislike.

I dislike my thighs, and the fact that my skin is so terrible.
But I suppose I cannot complain too much.

Don't. Stop.:

Really, you can lose weight without trying to live off of apple slices and lettace. I actually get annoyed at the amount of people that are developing eating disorders, and hurting themselves over it (that sounds awful, I know).

People do not choose to develop eating disorders. Neither is everyone who has anorexia doing it to be skinny. They develop an actual fear of food.

Everyone seems to think people with eating disorders are like "omg im fat, im not gonna eat until i lose weight". It's rarely like that.

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I have body image issues, but then I was obese until the age of fourteen, so it's kind of expected. :coffee:

^ I've been overweight for so long.
I hate myself for letting me become like this.
I missed being a teenager.
I missed having boyfriends, and buying nice clothes, and going to parties.
I've missed a lot of things, because I'm overweight.

I'd be surprised to meet a woman who was comfortable with every single aspect of her body.

OMFGWTFISTHAT!:

I'd be surprised to meet a woman who was comfortable with every single aspect of her body.

Same here.
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I'm conscious of everything of me. My step-mother tells me off for exercising, eating healthier to lose weight, yet she is on one of those celebrity diets herself...At least I'm doing it the genuine way. :con:

when I was in 15, I was told by a guy I was in love with at the time and his friends that I was the ugliest girl in my year and I had no personality.

He & his friends didn't ever talk to me and I felt like shit and my self esteem hit a low.

My friends tell me I'm beautiful and I should be a model. I love them to bits because anyone that doesn't know you shouldn't judge you.

I'm overweight, but people are shocked when I tell them that.
At first, I just thought they were saying, "Oh my God, you can't be overweight" simply because they were my friends -
but even my parents were shocked when I showed them my BMI calculator - & I'm confident they weren't lying.

There are days when I think I should lose weight in order to look better,
but then there are days when I stand in my underwear in front of the mirror & actually think, "Y'know what, this is actually OK."

I'm not happy with my body, because if I was - then I wouldn't have to make a list of everything I woud change. I guess you could say I'm kinda satisfied with what I have, which is something I admire myself for. :shifty

Takezo -:

but even my parents were shocked when I showed them my BMI calculator - & I'm confident they weren't lying.

BMI is not always the best thing to go by, because it doesn't take your lifestyle into account.

The best thing to do is to work out your waist/hip ratio.

Measure around your waist (narrowest part) and hips (widest part). Divide the waist measurement by the hip measurement.

So for example, 30inch waist, 40inch hips.

30 divided by 40 = 0.75.

Edit: For women, the number should be below 0.85. For men, it should be below 0.90.

I've always struggled to accept myself.
I've was admitted to hospital after eating less than 200 calories per day - when I was 11.
But what people don't understand that people don't just choose to develop an eating disorder.
Who in their right mind would decide to hate themselves?
When a person stops eating, purposely, it's all down to mental issues.
It's a fear of food.
It's their mind telling them they can't eat that, or they will become huge, or they can't eat that because they're too fat.
People never seem to understand an anorexic/bulimic person.
They just assume they want to be that way, and it makes me sad.