I'm 5'11" and have really struggled with always feeling bigger than my other female friends. I've recently gone from 160 lbs (where I had been for a number of years) to 138lbs. I don't think I want to lose more weight, but I still feel like a draft horse compared to other women. I feel like I have to compensate for my height by being thin, which is probably not a healthy mindset.
There's definitely times when I've felt good about how I look when I leave the house, and then I stand next to other women at the mirror in a bar bathroom, and I can just feel my stomach drop. I know I am not objectively overweight, but I have a really hard time shaking that feeling. I'm 32 years old and happily married, but I can hear the insecure teenager in my head screeching.
When I see other tall women, they don't look out of the ordinary to me, and this seems to be a standard that I exclusively apply to myself. Same with my clothes, like they look small when I lay them out on the bed, but them when I put them on I feel huge.
Do other tall women feel like this? Have you found anything that helps? I feel like this is hard for me to speak about in real life, because I worry that other people will take it as me judging their body size, which isn't my intention at all.
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