Average can be beautiful.

 Thank you for posting!!!!

I sent an email to Lululemon head office regarding their sizing options. I told them I could not find a pair of shorts in their entire store in a 14. I was upset because their target market is the size 2-6 range. I told them if they made larger sizes it would encourage overweight people to get some excersize. I mean, I feel like an idiot at the gym already, at least give me the opportunity to wear some exercise clothes that I feel good in. Their solution was for me to watch their website for new product and get a size 14 before everyone else did. stupid eh.

I think she looks great.  I know I felt much sexier when I was 40 lbs heavier.  And my boyfriend liked me that way a lot more then now.  I have no curves.  I have boobs because I paid for them but no ass, none.  I feel like I have the sex appeal of a boy.  I do not starve myself.  Quite the opposite.  I feel stuffed most of the time.  I eat at least every 2 hours or so.  I get zero male attention, unlike 40 lbs ago.  To tell you the truth, I feel every bit as self conscious and unattractive as I did at 240 lbs.  If a guy found me attractive at this weight I would think he was a freak.

being to thin can also make you feel the same as people who are over weight. My bf who died of cancer almost two years ago faught with her weight for years. She was 6 foot and around 110' Why i would look at her and only wish she would look at me and wish she could just put on a few pounds. She hated to show her body her bones stuck out and she tried to force her self to eat. We found out later it may have been the cancer. But i have seen both sides of it while ive felt bad my whole life for being fat my friend for 35 yearss would lay in bed at night just wishing she could put some on. Why does this world exspect us to be perfect. Loretta

 I will never be a size 0... OMG... If I ever lost that much weight, you would have to bury me... I would be skin and bones and then I think all the loose skin would be bigger then that... 

I am 5'9... with a med to large frame. I started at a 4-5X and am now down to an 18-20... I love to be about a 16...I think that would be awesome... a 12? not so sure about...

The fact is it's not all about weight... some of us are just built bigger.. I have a daughter in law who is a size 0... she is the tiniest thing... maybe 5 feet, and she weighs about 100 pounds. She naturally has a small frame and is very petite... I love her dearly...She is totally beautiful inside and out, but I will never be that small... It is not in my genetics. And I would be a fool to compare myself to her. 
There are those who are comfortable wearing smaller sizes... and there are those of us who are just never going to get there, not if we are to remain healthy...and isn't that ultimately what this journy is all about? 
My goals have never been what size I am or even how much I weigh... it's been about how I feel, how healthy I am, and how active I can be... Can I play with my grandchildren? Can I pursue my passion for photography? Can I make love and actually enjoy it? Can I walk and breathe at the same time? Those are the reasons I started this journey, they are the reasons I had the surgery, some of them anyway... and the truth is I can do all of that and more right now where I am at...  right now I look amazing..( in clothes anyway)... But I would be so totally foolish to make becoming a size 0 or even a size 10 my goal.... I would be making myself miserable for no good reason what so ever...