I wish one’s weight wasn’t a measure for their beauty 😞

I was having a nice heart-to-heart while catching up with my work assistant Bryanna just now. She was venting to me about her personal insecurities and while I was trying to encourage her, she said it’s easy for me to do so because I’m “way prettier”… 😦 I’m like, you think I’m prettier than you? Are you retarded?! Nah, I didn’t actually say that. 😂 But seriously, she responded to my objection with “Well, you’re all skinny and everything.” Omfg… 🤦‍♀️ Yes, she has a tiny bit more weight on her than I do, but so frickin’ what?! 🤷‍♀️ She’s still very pretty and definitely better-looking than I am! It just irks me that in spite of all the body positivity stuff going around in the media and marketing nowadays, people still subscribe to the widely-accepted of what constitutes as beauty. 🙄 But I suppose that will always be a problem. Nothing sadder than seeing a legit beautiful person think less of themselves just because they may not be a damn twig. Ugh…. 😔

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HootyTheNightOwl

My problem is with weight being used as a marker for being "healthy".

I know that I'm overweight, but I don't eat enough to diet - and no one will help me to get my eating up to healthy levels because I don't look anorexic.

Ducky · 31-35, F

@HootyTheNightOwl I'm thin and I've been having health issues for years. Goes to show what my weight does for me, lol.

HootyTheNightOwl

@Ducky I believe that I have Chronic Fatigue syndrome on top of being overweight, but I haven't been successful with getting a proper diagnosis yet... so getting my health sorted and learning how to live with this illness has to be more important right now than losing weight is for me.

If I walk a mile in one day, I am in bed for the next seven to ten days recovering from the over exertion. It's basically crippled my life - I can't even sleep a full eight hours without getting acid reflux and having to spend hours sitting up against my pillows (I sleep with the head of my bed raised as it is, to keep my airways open).