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What matters to you? BMI? Dress size or way you feel?

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hangingoutattheendofmywick · 04/11/2015 14:27

So I've been dieting and exercising since giving birth and it has gone really well. I feel better, more confident, everyone has commented on how much weight I've lost - I've started running and exercising and honestly feel great.
Then on Sunday I weighed myself and looked up my BMI. and it says I'm bloody Obese. As you can imagine this floored me. A feeling of how?! What's the point?! I would have to lose 2 stone now to be "healthy weight". I'm between a size 12 to 14 right now. I wish I hadn't weighed myself. Thought I'd come so far so now I'm just feeling pretty depressed.
Does your BMI matter to you?
Does your dress size?
Or the way you feel about yourself?
When I look in the mirror I think I look good - for the first time in years - but this BMI thing has just thrown me off.

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Triliteral · 17/11/2015 22:52

I have always found this site very interesting. It shows images of women and their bmi. It's quite revealing of just how slim a 'normal' bmi is.

www.flickr.com/photos/77367764@N00/sets/72157602199008819/with/1454434641/

Thefitfatty · 18/11/2015 05:01

Very interesting Triliteral I was much thinner then some of these women listed as underweight at my thinnest and was still listed as well into a normal weight.

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