hey hey, i was also thinkin...if you are only 5 pounds overweight....why do people stare? I wouldnt notice if soemone was 5 pounds overweight...

yeah, PAris Hilton is in a healthy wait. i smell cocaine involved....

Because being overweight is unhealthy! and to be even a little overweight, does give off the impression that you dont take care of yourself enough. its not all the media's fault. they are advertising Healthy people, not just the skinny ones.

i guess tahtshow its been all along and no one really botheres and its fitted so well into ppls minds that its difficult to change.....

i dont understand.... why is it when a man is abit fat people say he's "husky" but when its a woman she's "fat"?

First of all NO ONE is perfect. It's unrealistic to want to be. It's an unreacable goal so just forget it. I'm not fat but I have bigger tata's so people think I must be chubby to have these big babies. But I'm not, I'm a NORMAL girl. I don't have a flat stomach and a tight fit body, I'm just me. And if you are losing weight, first you need to think about why you are? Do it for your self and for NO ONE else! Like fuzi says, "forget regret, or life is your's to miss

It should't matter if you weigh a little more. Love yourself the way you are.
As my friends like to say; Fat?so!

People stare because there jsut jerks... you dont need 'em... Trust me... be your self.. Don't change .. Someone likes you out there no matter how you look.. and for the looking at your breast and stomach all immuter lil' boys do that, and they always will ...

Hey u know wat i would not worri bout it. i think well not every1 is perfect if they were we would all look the same and tell me how boring this world would be if we were all da same hight sweight and everything? im telling u i would b bored! people take 1 look at you and think ur fat or god whats she eating that for she should get a saled! itz all in peoples heads wat they say and how they think and i neva take any notes of them i just hold my head up and go on bout wat i was doin! dont stress mwahz

i look heavier than i am, becuase i am VERY short. lol. and i AM trying to do something about it. iv been on a diet for two and a half months. and im going running most nights. and i have a life.

and to ceb17 lol i like my curves, i just want a little less in the middle.

I think you're over reacting. If you're only 5 pounds overweight people shouldn't be able to tell. Everyone has tummy rolls, it's apart of life.

I seriously don't care if people stare at me, they rarely do anyway. I'm overweight. Big deal. I'm at least trying to do something about it. I don't eat a lot, my doctor says I just have a really bad metabolism and it's genes. I'm active and still chunky. Oh well.

But, I must say you're pissing me off because you don't sound 'fat' to me. People complain about being fat when they're not and it makes me so mad. I just want to say 'GET A LIFE.'
-Sunset

I don't think you should care, just be happy being yourself. Nobody is perfect and not everyone can be a size 2.Besides it's only 5 lbs. big whoop! You don't wanna look perfect anyways. Trust me it's over rated. Love yourself for who you are! Be confident with who you are. If you don't bother with it, no one else will.

laters~~~~§love is never destroyed§

Hell i'm all for being yourself and not caring what people think, and i thin that as a whole we tend to judge people too heavily on their appearance but the problem with saying that is that at the end of the day, fat puts pressure on your body and causes early deaths, i think if its only 5 pounds then forget it, but if it keeps goind and touches clinical obesity then its not about looking beyond to the persons personality its about being honest

Why care? I don't undertsand, wh ycare at all? if it's fie pounds, big deal. you know that muscles weighs more than fat eh? so why care, i'm 6'2-3" ish and about 218. Ive got a bit of a paunch but i don't care and nobody else does either. In fact no one even puts a glance towards my belly. I think the whoel thing is how i carry myself, i'm confident and i have a really nice face and great eyes. I think that becaus ei have such confidence ppl don't see my faults as much as i do, or at all for that matter and because i have a good face ppl don't really loo kelse wear.

you know, i've wondered that too- a lot in the last two years, when i started yo-yo dieting and then getting depressed that i wasn't 85 pounds like i was when i was twelve, which of course made me overeat. i'm about 115 now, because i stopped caring about anyone, of either gender, who would judge me by a spare tire. i've decided it's just stupid the way people judge you because of your body. i'm healthy (i'm actually on the charts and not underweight this year, my doctor told me), and so i really don't care if someone doesn't like me because i'm not barbie. by the way,if barbie was a real person, she would be over 7 feet tall with the waist of a toddler, have to walk on all fours due to her proportions, and be to thin to have a period, much less a baby. kinda puts things in perspective, doesn't it? anyway, when i went to mexico this summer, the only girls in our group of americans who got the whistles and stares (quite a few, i might add) were the ones who had fair complexions and real curves- hips, etc. the girls who were with us that were addicted to the tanning bed and the gym hardly got a second glance. I say, beauty is in the eye of the beholder! so keep your chin up, and love your curves, cuz i definitely do!!!!

People are judging and focus on appearance more than they should, but no offense, but some people expect it almost and ask for it. For instance, people wear low cut shirts or tight clothes to fit in (no pun intended) and then they are upset when guys stare at their chest or girls stare at their stomachs. Everyone is human but if some people think more about what they wear, maybe guys won't focus so much on their looks.

No one should only see you for your body. But some of the clothes people wear now, the short skirts and the midriff revealing tops, will only make it worse. For girls that are skinny as well. You dress like that and you get called a slüt, heavy or thin. Dress in moderation and you might notice changes. I don't know if you dress like this, but I'm just saying that it is something to consider.