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In reply to the discussion: Listen you fat assed bitch. [View all]Bettie
(16,234 posts)I still lament the fact that I didn't stop dieting years earlier.
I was a size 14 in high school, larger than most other girls, taller, broader of shoulder...I look like my grandfather's sisters, all big women who lived into their 90's. They all had hourglass figures until they had children then had bellies afterward.
Once I stopped dieting and began eating what I wanted when I wanted it, I found I ate less, because my mind didn't immediately categorize some foods as "good" and some as "bad". My weight stabilized, but at a much higher number than it would have been had I realized what I was doing to myself twenty or thirty years earlier.
I look at photos of myself in my 20's when I thought I was too fat to exist and I wish I could tell that young woman that she was just fine, that not everyone has to be a size 0. Humans are diverse and within that diversity fat people have always been among us.
You hear people say "X is naturally thin" but you never hear "Y is naturally fat/big".