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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not sure if anyone has said this but be wary of vanity sizing. I should be a solid size medium and yet there are many brands of clothes that I can fit a small…sometimes xs. I am 5’8 and 151. I’ve gained almost  10 pounds since the pandemic. I think I have only about 4-5 more pounds to go before I start to look overweight. I am carrying most of my extra weight in the tummy and hips.[/quote]

It didn’t take long for someone with an unhealthy relationship with weight throw out the BS “vanity sizing” comment.

151 and 5’8” is bottom of bmi and 10lbs less is an unhealthy weight.[/quote]

That's on the higher end of the BMI scale. I'm 5'8" and I've put on about 20 lbs in the last few years, now up to 145, and I definitely am starting to look chubby. I did start lifting (heavy) weights during the Covid gym lockdown, so some of it is muscle but there is a visible layer of fat in places where it wasn't before. I know that it's because my diet has just gone straight in the trash since I started working from my kitchen.

I think how you feel about it is contextual, though. I live in a very high income area and work in a very high income career, so I am usually one of the largest people in my neighborhood/office. Women where I live and work are just tiny. I went to Florida recently and felt positively slim. [/quote]

I’m 5’7” and when I was 145 I was too thin to get pregnant… it was unhealthy, I had to gain weight to get pregnant… you all are tripping. Body image crazies![/quote]

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