I eat healthy everyday and exercise is my religion, I’ll be damned if my 5′7 frame ever steps outside of a size 4.

I’m also tired of all the people hating on women that maintain thin bodies that actually look good. The funniest part of it all is that these kind of people only maintain this attitude until they finally start losing all of their excess weight, then their whole game about body image switches up (i.e. Tyra Banks).

As for this issue, I agree absolutely 100%, being overweight does suck, and like most people when I rapidly gained weight I did absolutely nothing to get rid of it, but suffered silently and tried my best to wear my “fat girl” clothes and blend into the background. I have since lost that weight (by a stroke of luck actually–I got a part time job at a retail store that made you run around like a chicken with its head cut off, so it was like an 8 hour workout without an opportunity for binge eating at least 4 times a week) and I have realized how much easier absolutely everything is–even something as simple as crouching down to pick up something that fell on the floor. And I feel so much more powerful, confident, and sexy. I’m not a twig, and not at my skinniest, but I’m at a healthy, comfortable weight for me, one that allows me to keep my bigger boobs and fills out my white girl bum (I feel you for sure on that one) but still lets me have a nice slim face and flat tummy.

The thing that drives me more crazy than these people who are in denial that they are not happy with their size, are the people who bitch and moan all day everyday about how unhappy they are with their weight and about how fat and gross they feel, but who refuse to take a walk, persist in covering everything they eat with extra fat mayo, and insist on eating the entire double decker cake each night for dessert because they were “good” today and only had a salad for dinner…but yet can’t understand why they just can’t lose weight, are always blaming their genetics, and hate all the “lucky” skinny girls who are just born that way.

I think, as you said, people just need to learn to take more responsibility for themselves and their conditions.

Again, great post, thanks!

Just try to eat healthy. Don’t worry about eating too much because your body is going to demand what it needs and it needs a lot when you’re pregnant. Trust me, I know. It’s the quality of what you eat, not the quantity. And maybe after the baby is born you’ll find yourself super motivated to get serious.