How much does your size/weight bother you?

It's very important to me.

I'm a perfectionist and I like to look perfect (to myself). I have a typical model-body shape. Very tall, very lean, long legged, small-boobed hourglass. I like how absolutely everything fits, I can wear whatever I want, most fitted or see-through dresses if I choose to (I don't wear see through) and there's no lump, no bump, no flab, no need for control underwear, everything lies perfectly. I can be caught in photos or walk past mirrors and there's never any bulge anywhere. I love that feeling and no food tastes better that that. To me.

I come from a country where a lot of women are like me. Tall and very slim. I'd feel very out of place being fat there. Fat there and fat in the UK are not the same thing. Anything above size 10-ish (for a tall person) is fat there. And no one would be shy telling you that.

I don't think Bridget Jones is 'fat-fat', but she's not slim either in my book. Podgy, overweight somewhat, soft. I wouldn't want to look like her.

All the above are about me and my body. I don't comment on other people's bodies and their weight is of no concern of mine.

I'm obsessed. It's very weird. I have a conventionally good figure (size 8-10) and I love my body shape. I workout 4 times a week and eat relatively healthy. Generally my weight doesn't even fluctuate but I still weigh myself once a week (it's 55kg atm). In my early 20s, I was really thin and had an exercise addiction so I think this is where it comes from.

I'm a size 4 - 6.

I envy women who have boobs, hips, shape In general. I think about cosmetic surgery all the time.
I feel like I look like a 12 year old boy. I've been told that too!
I'm not sure anyone is truly happy with their body.

I'm very overweight. Could lose 10 stone and still not be skinny.

I barely ever think about it really. Maybe a couple of times a year? Most people don't comment directly to me though I'm sure they do talk behind my back.

I've just never really cared much about what people think of my appearance. I dress in clothes that I like without worrying about what's in style. I don't wear makeup as I don't like it but I do like playing around with hairstyles so I do that.

I might try and lose weight if it starts affecting my health, but outside of health concerns I'm happy with how I am.

Constantly.

I'd like to not think about my weight. I'd like to be totally relaxed about food. I'd like to be naturally slim. I love cooking and would like to get into baking but would worry about my willpower.

I'm 14 -16 uk size and overweight but not obese. I have to care about my weight because I don't want to get to pre diabetes levels because it's in the female line of my family. I know if I gain , say 1/2 a stone it might be close.

Just recently I had a virus and lost 4 pounds. The virus knocked me out of action for a few days but I felt pleased about the weight loss 😬🤷🏻‍♀️

I feel miserable a lot over my size. I am an average height size 14. I hate myself sometimes. I think everything would be better if I lost 2 stone. I do have a good life, lovely children, partner and work is going well. It's horrible that an extra bit of fat ruins a little piece of every day for me.

All the bloody time. I can't think of a Day in my life since I was about 11 that I've not thought about my weight. I'm 5'6 and 10st 4 today. When I'm 'good' I'm 9st 12. Really good 9st 9.

Because I'm currently not at a 'good' weight i think about it all the time. It's the first thing I think of when I open my eyes. Sometimes I wake in the night and think oh God, I'm fat at the moment.

I feel a bit obsessed at the moment with wanting to be thinner but I can't seem to stop eating. Then I feel shit about myself.

I've never had a full blown eating disorder (I always eat and dont make myself sick).

When I'm at a 'good' weight i feel good about myself but I'm still obessed with my weight and what I am eating. Or not eating. I weigh myself every day.

I wish I didn't feel like this. It's boring and shallow. I have a wonderful husband, family, job, friends, money, parents still here... but yet my weight dictates how I feel every bloody day of my life.

Part of me being happy now is because I struggled a lot with my body when I was in late teens and I thought I was huge when I was very thin and developed an ED. I thankfully recovered and I now have teen daughters who are getting close to that age myself and I never want them to feel like that, ever.

I’m huge! Been battling with my mental health for years which has now vastly improved. I am now ready to tackle my weight problem.

BMI 18.3

Small but still flabby as fuck

I hate myself

This was me up until a couple of months ago. It resonates so much!

I'm a size 8 and I think about my weight a lot. I look in the mirror everyday and critique myself.

I was at the doctors recently about a problem was flagged when I had surgery. The GP took the opportunity to bombard questions at me regarding my weight.

I’m naturally a size 6.. I always have been, even when I gave birth. He was utterly convinced I have an eating disorder. This was the first time I have really thought about my weight and it did play on my mind but I know I eat well. It’s just the body I have. I get told I look amazing - I’m just very petite.

You can’t be either ends of the scale without comments.

Seriously? It's not about being attractive for a man, that is such an odd thing to say.

I'm 5'3 and pretty slim, about a Size 8. People like to say I'm tiny but I am bang right in the middle of what is healthy for me. My size or weight doesn't bother me whatsoever - I've had children so I think I've done well to stay as fit as I can. I do try to be healthy but I slack off a bit and I don't really care. If I eat a bit of junk, it isn't the end of the world and I think obsessively trying to be healthy is bad. It's all about balance. I need to work out more - that's one thing I know! Hitting the gym does make me feel better but I get quite lazy. I love walking though and I think that is the best form of exercise to keep me healthy for me

You've got a perfect BMI, you don't need to loose any weight. Being that thin is not attractive especially not to men who are looking for a fertile woman

I'm happy with how i look and feel. Try to eat reasonably healthily but definitely have chocolate and crisps most days. Exercise frequently but don't stress if i can't.

I’ve felt a lot better about my weight (size 16, could do with losing a stone and a half) since I lost a lot of weight a few years back after having kids and getting married. I was a size 10 for the first time ever - and my life still wasn’t perfect! Made me realise how much I’d idealised that in my head, and although I’d like to lose weight for health reasons I feel that my happiness is less dependent on being thin!

I think about my size constantly. It's debilitating really because I just don't feel worthy of anything. Why should I have my hair done or nails or eyebrows when I look this big? I'm a 16 (just lost a stone as I was a 16/18). Whilst I wouldn't think twice about seeing another lady size 16/18+, I wouldn't even think about her size or think any less of her, I just don't feel like 'me' at all and ordering myself makes me feel disgusting. I was always a very slim 8/10 before children and I just can't believe I'm now double my weight. I think I'm finally going to take the leap with mounjaro this month, mainly for my mental health.

I'm 5 foot 3 and told I'm tiny all the time! You'd still get comments!

I’m short, size 6, was as low as a 4 and my BMI has never been lower than the lower end of overweight.

I am clearly dense! (I build muscle very quickly, if I so much as look at a barbell I tone up, whereas if my husband runs 100m he loses 5 stone. We joke that we would both be happier if we could swap body compositions - he would like to build muscle more easily, as he’s very lean, and I would like to be waif-like!).

I do think a lot about my weight but this is because I put 3 stone on and have really battled to get into the right headspace to lose it - dating right back to Covid times. I’m nearly there, and doing it the healthy way and feeling really good. But I think about my weight way too much. I wish I could be chunky and confident. Before I lost weight I would see so many women much bigger than me, and think they looked amazing - but I just have an internal self loathe switch that doesn’t seem to turn off.

I am now ‘princessing’ - spending time and money pampering myself in the hope it will help me be kinder to myself, and like myself more. It’s gradually working…

BMI 22.3, 9 stone, size 10.

Happy with my weight overall, but I now have a very flabby menopausal stomach.

55 with an under active thyroid, so for the first time in my life I'm having to keep an eye on my weight, because I'm eating the same things/taking same amount of exercise but the weight is creeping on pound by pound.