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Hm... ever since I can remember my family has picked on me for being a "bigger girl". I have always felt pressured to lose weight... My oldest sister has always struggled, along with my mom. My dad isn't quite as heavy as my mom though. My other sister, she's always been the odd one. Skinny, petite, pretty blond hair. Strange how everyone else in my family is bigboned and has dark brown hair. (We call her the milkman's child xd )

But I remember from when I was little (and they still do it now stressed ), whenever we had guests over or we went over to someone's house, or I even had my friends over- my parents would tell me to watch what I eat... I hate it. I don't need to constantly be reminded. And yes, it has had a huge impact on how I behave and eat today. I'm a very insecure person I must admit. It's horrible, I want to hard to be the outgoing person I know I am, but I'm still so self concious.

I hope that helps some... sweatdrop

Total opposite for me, i was always a really tiny person, in height and weight. when i was younger my dad would always give me a weight limit so when i hit puberty i was growing but it didn't register in my mind that it was growth spurts, to me it meant gaining weight. so i developed eating disorders, i won't get into details. but now i'm better, i was a normal weight for some time, then i got my stomach pumped, lost a lot of wieght. gained it all back and then some when i graduated, this was due to my sobriety. people say it's the freshman 15, but it was more like the freshman 50. i got bigger boobs though, so that was nice. My biggest problem though is that no matter what my weight is, i have a HUGE butt and now it has huge thighs with it. so no matter what i have to buy bigger sized pants so that they will fit up over my butt. so i got to SQEEZE into pants that are way big in the waste and belts don't help any.
But all and all, i don't care what i look like or how big i am, it's who i am. people say i look "healthy" which is code for fat, but i did look too skinny before. i still wear what i want and don't care what people think.
on the other side, i have always been attracted to bigger boys, boys with stomachs.

i'm glad you liked some part of my rambling wink

Im not a bigger girl but I would love to see some manga out there without those perfect people.....it's always sorta bothered me.

I'm a fat loli, and OMG, yes, I have been pressured plenty to lose weight. There are these people who consider themselves to be "elite" lolita's, but when one has to term themself "elite", they aren't. They always feel this need to inform me that I'm "too fat" to wear this, or that, and they love to say, "Fat people can't be loli!" Which is RUDE! Rudeness is NOT a lolita quality. They also go on and on that people past a certain age aren't allowed to dress lolita, which also isn't true. Plenty of those pictured in the G&LB's are past their "prime" so to speak, but they just don't always look it, much like myself.

My size hasn't really affected my fashion. I wear what I like whether others like it or not. I'm not ashamed of myself like other fat girls can be. There is no reason to be. A body is a body, and weight can neither make or break someones beauty. I've seen plenty of ugly girls who think they are hot simply because they are thin.

Those closest too me are fine with my size. My mom isn't, but she isn't accepting of her own body. She's always down on herself. She's probably be able to lose a little weight if she wasn't always so depressed and using food to comfort herself. I suppose I can understand. It has to be hurtful to have complete strangers make snide comments that they think we don't hear in public, such as, "Isn't she too fat to be eating THAT?" (come ON people, we're fat, not deaf.) They also don't seem to understand that weight isn't just a food issue, but it's mainly an emotional issue. Rather than yelling at us that we are fat or anything, people need to find out WHY we are fat. Do we use food as a substitute for comfort/love? Do we eat when bored? Out of lonlieness? Etc? Are we inactive because we are lazy like they think, or is it because we are depressed? Sometimes I see those who are interpreted as being lazy being told "get motivated!", but it is hard to be motivated when it feels like everyone is attacking and judging you. I'm constantly trying to get my roomie motivated because she is miserable with her size, but she just cannot get motivated no matter how much I encourage her. I keep telling her that she's lovely, that she should love herself, and that she should take her health seriously. I tell her not to lose weight simply to please the idiots around her, but to lose it for the sake of her health. sad Still, too many other idiots come in with hurtful comments, and those are much heavier than any kind words. It's like one hurtful comment has ten times the power of one kind comment. cry

I weighed about that in Gr.5 I was tired of people saying I was a "fat tub of s**t" or "fatso" or "fat boy" etc. so I started to diet half way through the school year. I lost 15 pounds in a month and a half and went to the cottage and pigged out and exerised even more and maintained the same weight. Then once Gr.6 started, I lost another 5 pounds. But when I transfered mid way though Gr.6, I gained somewhere between 10-15 pounds and I grew stretch marks. But know, my stretch marks are gone, I grew to 5'10 and I hope to lose more weight