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This is incredibly sad, my heart goes out to you. ...

2010-06-25T16:58:05.393-03:00

This is incredibly sad, my heart goes out to you. It must be awful having your mother and sister to tell you those things. But you're so strong. If I were in your place, I would've starved myself and ended up with even less than I started out with. Don't let them get to you.

This is incredibly sad, my heart goes out to you. ...

2010-06-25T16:58:05.392-03:00

Its been a while since my comment was posted, I wr...

2010-01-12T18:10:33.081-04:00

Its been a while since my comment was posted, I wrote the story, and I really want to thank everyone for your advice, your support. just by reading my story. I was afraid to respond to my own story. I really have tried to see myself as i really am. And I think i have. I feel a lot better now, I have tried to follow your advice: to love myself as I am and stop comparing myself to others.
I

I came across this a bit late, but I'm going to re...

2009-12-25T18:07:39.815-04:00

I came across this a bit late, but I'm going to reply anyway. I am your exact height and weight, and I can tell you now, you are not nearly as fat as you think you are. This is your mind messing with you. Your mother's mental illness is doing the talking here, try not to listen to it.

Please try to have a look at some of the size acceptance websites out there - they are really

I must start by stating the thing that you fear mo...

2009-12-24T03:58:42.566-04:00

I must start by stating the thing that you fear most....YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL!!! I ache for you that you cannot accept this fact, but I promise you, it is true. I too, have always been a larger girl/woman, and that is what I shall always be...not because I necessarily choose to be, but because it is how I am built. I know I come by it honestly from both sides of my family.

However, the

I am in your shoes. At 5'6" I recently hit my 200 ...

2009-12-16T14:23:06.593-04:00

I am in your shoes. At 5'6" I recently hit my 200 pound mark. My mother constantly rags on me for my weight. I once called her out on it, telling her that calling me fat only hurt my feelings and made me binge more. Her response "I never called you fat". No, instead she constantly told me I was putting on weight, how my clothes didn't fit me right, whether I exercised

There are so many rude people out there in the wor...

2009-12-06T16:28:36.098-04:00

There are so many rude people out there in the world, and some of them speak before they think, and dont think about how much they can hurt someone with theire behaviour. I'm really sorry you had to be one of them.

Weight doesn't matter when it comes to beauty, its only the surfuce of a person, its whats inside that counts.

I suffer from bulimia, 14 years now, and i

I sympathize with this girl's story, having at one...

2009-12-04T15:08:57.689-04:00

I sympathize with this girl's story, having at one point in my life reaching 200 lbs (but only standing 5' tall.)

I never had an issue with my parents. In fact, their response was rarely anything at all. So when I started putting on weight and getting the reaction from my peers, I was in for a bit of a rocky ride.

There is always someone who can't look past your

Hello, I felt really sad about your story, and de...

2009-12-02T19:48:32.142-04:00

Hello,

I felt really sad about your story, and decided to write some words ( even if I am not a native speaker...) How to start...

At first, being fat is not the same as being ugly- and even if you are big, you can be a wonderful and attractive person!

You might think "how can a stranger from the other side of the world tell me this- if even my own mother is

Wow. May I say I absolutely admire your strength? ...

2009-12-02T16:18:50.393-04:00

Wow.
May I say I absolutely admire your strength? If I were in your position I probably wouldn't be alive right now.
Although people tried to put you down in the worst ways, and you often don't think good of yourself, you still keep trying to be happy, live a normal live. You UNDERSTAND that these people did you wrong and that yes, you should work with what you got.
And

Hello, I know what it is like to not know how you ...

2009-12-01T23:33:27.514-04:00

Hello, I know what it is like to not know how you look. I too have Googled pictures of my height compared to my weight to see what I look like, it's always a grab bag of body types, in the end I still never really know what I look like.
It's been more than fifteen years for me & despite several years of sustained recovery, I relapsed.
This year I did, hooked on diet pills

where do I begin! First the Norman Rockwell photo ...

2009-12-01T22:58:40.899-04:00

where do I begin! First the Norman Rockwell photo I have and am in the process of drawing the exact photo I started years ago and never finished because I never felt good enough as an artist and didn't want to ruin it.
I feel so bad hearing this story. I grew up with severe abuse and being locked out of the house and starved as a very young child. Life was hell growing up with no real