Once upon a time I used to be just like you. A sad selfinvolved individual working out 7 days a week twice a day and eating “healthy” all for the sake of numbers. I used to look at big people and think to myself why dont they just eat right or hit the gym. It’s so easy and simple. Then one day I ended up with something called hypothyroidism and no matter how much I exercised I just kept getting fatter and fatter and fatter. I gained a 102 pounds in less then a year. I’m 5’8 and now weigh 250 pounds. I am fat but I make fat hot! I’m attractive and I dress better then when I was skinny. Now I have the confidence because I’m a yogi and I also dance. Your view of things is as mine was a few years back. Simplistic. You may never end up stuck with an unfortunate disease that make your face nasty, your thights cottage cheese and your hair and nails brittle but you might find it that you are a person of substance and great worth after your good looks have expired and have to reach for personality and depth to make it in life.

thank you very much for concerning yourself with my self-esteem, but, please, don’t worry. I’m a bit self-critical, as a typical young woman can be, but “extremely insecure about her body” is really too much. Where in the article did you get the information, that I am “someone who has little or no self-esteem”? Maybe you have problems with your self-esteem? Why did the phrase in the article about liposuction make you so nervous? You don’t like your appearance? Maybe you need help? Read the article about how imagined body defects can spoil one’s life (Category “Diet and Weightloss”, article “How Imagined Body Defects Can Spoil Life”), I think, it would be interesting for you, and I hope, this will help. Please, don’t think about your body defects so much, this brings nothing but negative emotions. Life is so beautiful, just be happy with who you are!

Everyone should be concerned about their weight and health: eat a balanced diet and go in for sports. Excess weight was never good for anyone. I am sorry, that you don’t understand the real purpose of this article.

That is what is called self-esteem. Just for the record, I am fit, work out six days a week alternating strength training and cardio, and eat balanced nutrition outside of the occasional treat. I have to tell you that your post reads like someone who has little or no self-esteem and is extremely insecure about her body trying to make others feel badly about themselves, too. C’mon, liposuction??? Way to be “healthy”.

Also, because there exists such a prevalence of eating disorders among young women in our society, it would help if you defined “overweight”, because I know for a fact that it is not women carrying a few extra pounds who are at risk for all of the above consequences you list in a misleading manner. Plus, there are plenty of women who eat what they want when they are hungry, don’t work out and hate the idea of becoming a liposuctioned frankenstein that are still thin. What’s your damage??