For context, I have always been on the heavier side and have a really crappy relationship with food and body image. During the pandemic I gained 30 lbs, I'm trying my best to eat as well as I can and workout but it's so hard especially since I work part-time and go to school full-time taking all upper division courses and am in a relationship. I constantly find myself starving myself, crying at the way I look and so on.
I (24F) went to the dentist the other day for a cleaning. as I was waiting for my Dentist to come in (the same one I've had since I was a child so she knows what I've always looked like and through the years I have been gaining weight steadily) she looks at me and says , "you know I say this out of love but you need to get your weight under control." I just sit there and not say anything because what the hell am I supposed to respond to that?? She goes on saying "you're a really pretty girl and you know there's procedures that can help you. You should see if your Dr offers gastric bypass....What I do is eat cereal for breakfast, have a small lunch, and have whatever I want for dinner..." it just keeps going. It was unsolicited advice and I have been feeling so horrible about it ever since.
what the hell gives other people the right to see someone who doesn't look like them and say that they need to change for the sake of being someone's perception of beautiful??
I'm active, I'm vegan and eat mostly whole foods, I can do anything anyone else can...my heart and self confidence have been ripped into shreds. I'm currently 11 months clean from self harming after an ELEVEN YEAR streak and this makes me want to do it so bad.
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source https://www.reddit.com/r/loseit/comments/q4xq5d/my_dentist_basically_called_me_fat/
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