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A lot. I am disabled and I have been exercising as much as I possibly can. It’s not much, but I try to still always stay moving so my joints don’t hurt so bad. If I keep up, it only hurts when the weather is changing.

Untreated ADHD, a demanding job, and a broken body is a bad combo.

Nowadays, it doesn’t really bother me. To be fair, I lost a lot of weight recently, but that only happened when I stopped caring about my weight so much. For a long time I got stuck in a trap of worrying about my weight, which lead me to paying super close attention to what I was eating, which made me pay more attention to the slightest bit of hunger, which made me eat more because it was harder to resist knowing I felt so hungry, which looped around to making me worry about my weight more.
The solution for me was to surround myself with people who didn’t care about my weight, as well as finding a doctor who didn’t hound me about my weight, and only brought it up when I did to say “Yeah, you could certainly afford to lose weight, but you’re already healthy.”
Having so much less anxiety about it was 100% the thing that did it for me. I wouldn’t even say I’m happier because I lost weight. Rather, the other way around. I lost weight because I’m happier.

I had some unhealthy eating habits in the first year I had a kid, and I seem to be able to maintain the same size easily but getting smaller is hard. I actually don’t mind what I see in the mirror, I think my shape is nice and I’m healthy enough to do all the things I enjoy, but what really bothers me is I can’t fit into my favorite clothes 😭 I love clothes, I love playing dress up, and in the decade prior to having a baby I had found some amazing second hand finds that brought me joy and delight. I have a panoply of pretty things that helped define my personal style, but now only a small fraction of my wardrobe fits me. I can still wear some pieces, and I’ve found a couple new things for my current size, but I look in my closet with longing to wear my beautiful clothes again.

I am a physically large person in both height and width. I am also a very anxious person who would often quite like to take up less space than I do. Other than that issue I’m pretty okay with my weight. Most of my bodily issues are focused elsewhere.

While I would like to be smaller, I love (love) food. It makes me feel happy and I’d rather be happy than small. In the last year I’ve become a lot more physically fit too and that balances things.

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I’m not happy with my weight. I very much need to exercise more and take more care with what I eat (waaaaay too many carbs), mildly terrified of diabetes (I have a family history of it). I don’t like having a gut that sticks out but i don’t want to end up super thin; don’t care about having abs of steel either.

ive been off social media except reddit, discord, and lemmy for a decade, and i was genuinely confused at labeling that girl “fat”. (and the guy, too).

i think im healing. i needed that hope today

I’m not thrilled with my weight but mainly just because I want to be fit and healthy.

I don’t want to be strong like man who look pretty. I want to be strong like bitch that fight bears in the forest.

I think I’m a healthy normal weight, but it bothers me because I’m not on hormones yet so it’s still distributed on me in a way that’s dysphoria inducing. That’s actually something I was dysphoric about for years before recognizing it for what it was. I used to run marathons, before my life went down the drain hard. Regained weight since then, but more because of going back to a shitty diet and hotting twink death age than getting less excersize, I think.

It bothers me quite a bit, honestly. Being on hormones kind of makes it difficult to maintain a healthy weight for me at times.

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I was overweight through my teens and into my adult life. I finally got down to a healthy weight by having a partner who would hold me accountable about working out and eating healthy. I am at a healthy weight now (not my ideal) but I have fat in the wrong places that I can’t get rid of (lower belly, thighs). I look good in most clothes, but I hate wearing bathing suits and yoga pants (I love yoga so I still do) because they emphasize those parts. 😭

I guess to answer the question, most of the time I’m good with the way my body looks with clothes on, but I struggle with it still.

Also, anyone who has lost major weight knows it takes a long time for your body to “bounce back” (the saggy skin drawing back) and my body isn’t quite finished with that yet. I will say, it’s so much better than it was for anyone experiencing this. It just takes time.

I know I shouldn’t, but I’ve always had an issue with my weight. I went to an all girls school where anorexia was a way of life and my mother was really controlling about food. I used to restrict horribly as a teenager and was underweight. I wouldn’t eat a lot of foods and sadly used to purge.

Even know it’s ingrained into me that Eating Is Wrong. I don’t weigh myself as it can get obsessive. It’s not helped by being in my 40s, all the weight is on my belly and I can’t lose it easily. I notice the difference with lads at work, they just eat something if they want it. Women at work just don’t.

On the plus side I’m better than I used to be regarding it!

I used to, but mostly my weight was linked to me mental health - when I turned 30 I was overweight and very unfit, and also in a bad place both physically and mentally … I decided I didn’t want to die like that, so I intentionally destroyed my life and restarted.

Now, I don’t look at my weight, but I do keep fit.