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[quote=Anonymous]JESUS CHRIST

NO ONE IS ACTUALLY MAKING FUN OF THIS GIRL

A "mean" pp here. I don't know why people keep claiming this. Not one person has criticized this teenage girl. Not once. No one has blamed her. No one has said anything bad about her. Stop projecting. Stop hearing the word "fat" and basically dismissing everything as bullying. Show a post where there has been ONE criticism of the OP's daughter.

That's why I strongly encourage the OP not to let her defensiveness cloud the actual content of what is being said. It's easy to hear the word "fat" and start down a shame spiral but truly accepting your daughter's weight means not getting into fetal position every time it's brought up by a medical professional.

I have said about six times that I think that I think that losing tons of weight is HARD. I have done it. I've lost almost 45 pounds. I have not said (and no one has said) that losing 35 pounds is not hard. IT IS. The point I am trying to make it that it is psychologically grueling to lose weight for ages and ages and still be overweight. That's why if you have a lot of weight to lose, it's best to speak to a professional. It's really tough. You need HELP. The OP keeps changing her story over and over about what the doctor said and why. She may think that now the weight is coming down, it's resolved. It's sorted. Why is everyone still talking about it. But this is such a long process when you have tons to lose. I have said (a ton of times) that I think losing that kind of weight needs help from a professional. Maybe a therapist, maybe a better nutritionist. Even if it's physical, it can have psychological effects.

This is not about dropping weight quickly. Dropping weight quickly may even be a bad thing (though actually usually teenagers and children can lose pretty quickly). It's that losing weight can trigger eating disorders, make kids vulnerable to things they weren't before - new sexual attention etc, change relationships, STUFF. Turning away from medical professionals now is A HUGE MISTAKE.

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