..to invite you to a good natured game of guess my weight

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...on this grey Monday?? (well - its grey and bloody miserable up here anyway!) .... not writing anything much here as don't want to influence guesses.

I'm 5ft10

V bored perma-breastfeeding, so hoping this will provide a lighthearted distraction.

I've now read you haven't long had a baby., that would explain why you don't have your waist back yet. My apologies.
You have an amazing figure!

Spot on bum. But that's what the OP was after wasn't it

Then why post on the thread if you're agains it?

Just let the fan girl momentum happen and cease...

You look AMAZING!!! And 2 months postpartum?!? wow

10 1/2 stone. As very slim but tall and fairly muscular.

That's right Bum, we should all be down on our bodies, and each other's. That's the right and natural way for women to be.

As for the thread making someone cringe - right, which is why you're still reading it, from beginning to end - sorry, but that's a little bit hilarious!

I didn't say 'we' should be down on each other. At all. I simply pointed out that this seemingly self congratulatory thread is unnecessarily indulgent and attention seeking.

Sweetie,
If you want people on the internet to tell you you look fabulous then Just be honest about it.
Don't dress it up in a 'waaah I'm 12 stone I'm so faaatt' way,
Which is bound to upset others.
If you're proud of your body then fantastic, talk about how you got there, it's interesting and can be inspiring .
But lay off the faux despair

The OP posted the photo because she knew she looked good,

I haven't read the whole thread BTW. I got bored with the 'looking good hun' type posts by the end of the first page.

But by saying it's 'unnecessarily indulgent' and 'attention seeking', that's exactly what you're implying.

This is essentially a thread where people are being nice and kind to someone who has just given birth and who felt down about something.

I'm also of the view that weight means very little. I'm 3 (almost 4 months) post partum with DC2, & currently weigh between 45-46kg thank you breastfeeding. I'm 5ft 3in tall so I'm fairly sure the charts say I'm underweight. I do not look gaunt, dangerously thin or any of the other sound bites. I have a mum tum. My boobs are full of milk. And I was slimmer, fitter & more toned pre-pregnancy at 51kg.

Yet I look at the scales and feel a smug sense of happiness than I'm lighter than I used to be even though I don't look as good & probably not as healthy So yes, weight is a shit measure to go by, IME.

You look great by the way, OP.

I don't know where the weight height charts on the previous page are from but they don't correspond to NHS advice of healthy BMI being 18.5 to 25. My BMI is 22 and the chart posted for women suggests I am overweight. Just thought I'd mention for anyone looking at them and worrying.

The OP posted the photo because she knew she looked good

Erm yes - that was kind of the point. She knows she looks fine, yet the number on the scales is generally considered to be too high. This is wrong.

Exactly, and it was enough to make her feel (irrationally) bad about herself.

That's the thing - we all feel bad about ourselves, even if we're not overweight, because we're constantly told (implicitly - by media, society) that nothing less than perfection is OK.

That might be a surprise to some people, but it's true. No matter how good we may look to others, we will still see, and feel, the imperfections.

I'm tall and slim (not skinny), and in clothes, I look fine. Many would say I had nothing to worry about. But there are so many parts of me that I am unhappy about and wish I could change. If I lived under a rock, I wouldn't care. How refreshing that would be...

It would be great if more of us were just happy and accepting of our bodies - regardless of weight, regardless of shape, height, whatever.

When someone is happy, or should be happy according to others, they're denigrated. It's crazy, when you think about it.

Fishing for compliments. Me thinks

The OP is 5ft 10. Of course she's going to be heavier than a smaller woman. Chances are she'd probably look slim at 14 stones too.

Chances are she'd probably look slim at 14 stones too.

Yeah, she really wouldn't. That's 89 kilos.

I'm the same height as the OP (although sadly nowhere near as muscly), and would look like a heifer at that weight.

I might post a selfie and ask AIBU for people to rate my face on a scale of 1-10.

Feel free Kitten, there was no need to bump a year long thread to announce that...

@MissionItsPossible how strange, I hadn't looked at the dates, this came up on my side thingy?!

Blatant fishing for compliments.

Maybe it's muscle? Also you look tall.

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