I have been through extremes with my body. I once restricted so much that I fell into anorexia, only to swing to the other end—bulimia. I forced myself to stop walking 20,000 steps a day and, a month ago, overcame bulimia. But now, I find myself struggling with binge eating and orthorexia, something I suspect has lingered beneath the surface for a while. I follow a strict vegan diet, eating only “clean” whole foods, yet my weight has fluctuated drastically over the past year. I dropped from 110 pounds to 90, only to climb to where I am now: around 145 pounds at 5’4. And I feel awful. I look in the mirror and barely recognize myself. My face feels fuller, my body softer, and I can’t help but long for the version of me with less belly and thigh fat. I avoid mirrors because I hate what I see. I wonder if losing weight would make me prettier, or if I’m just… ugly now? Girls in my class make fun of my appearance, and the boys dont really talk to me except a select few who call me annoying and point out random aspects of my appearance that make me feel insecure. I want brutal honesty. Should I lose weight? Would it change anything? Or am I just stuck feeling this way? (17f)
Maybe you’re a bot, maybe not. But I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt here.
And my answer is no, absolutely not. You are in fact very pretty based on this one bad photo. And your face looks perfectly normal as far as proportions go.
School fucking sucks. And I’m willing to take a wild guess that your low self esteem already makes interacting with people difficult for you right from the start, before they’ve even said anything. So I’m willing to bet that at least 50% of your troubles here are your own thoughts bringing you down.
But as for the other 50%, you don’t need to please shitty, immature people. And don’t worry too much about the boys either. From stats I’ve seen, there’s a good chance they listen to people like Andrew Tate in their spare time. If you’re 17, sounds like you’re pretty close to finishing up with the place where you’re forced to be around people that you don’t vibe with.
Trust me, when school is over, that’s when you’ll get to meet your people, people that don’t make you feel like shit. And as far as relationships go, you’ll have a higher chance of meeting decent people that you actually want to be with. The only people that say school is the best years of your life are the people who peaked there. So hang in there.
dwindling7373@feddit.it 1 week ago
Is this fake? Possibly. Will people other than scammers see this and relate? Also possible.
Still a better wage than Pascal’s.
You are doing great, at 17 every single classmate of yours is jet to become an actual thinking human, many never will.
FMT99@lemmy.world 1 week ago
If she’s 17 now she hasn’t aged a bit in the last 7 years, impressive. (picture from another thread)
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cabbage@piefed.social 1 week ago
...but when you click those links in google reverse image search, they show completely different people. Except the one posted an hour ago. I have no idea what is going on here, just seems weird to me.
RoseLentara@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I took this photo a few days ago, it’s impossible to have been 7 years old. Someone is likely stealing my picture and hacking or something. Idk I’m not much of a tech user.🤷♀️
MrKaplan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
are there actually this old posts?
this seems like google + reddit being a shitty combination. i’m seeing fewer results but the two results i get that are 7 years old are just links to the subreddit, not to posts, which is likely throwing off the date on there.
other reverse image searches like tineye don’t show any prior images, so it’s very likely that you’re just fooled by misleading search results.
unless you can produce links or other evidence about actual 7 year old content please correct your comment.
I have already commented the same on the other post.
krimson@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Maybe its Maybelline
RoseLentara@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Thank you! I’m not sure why everyone thinks I’m a bot?
MrKaplan@lemmy.world 1 week ago
unfortunately it seems that people are trusting google search results to be accurate without following links.
as far as I can tell this is a combination of reddit returning the subreddit creation date as the timestamp that will show up in search results yet including images of recent posts, which google will then use as an indicator of “the image exists on this page”. this will lead to a 7 year old subreddit with recent posts showing as the image being present on a 7 year old search result. if people actually follow the link they’ll see it’s just a link to the subreddit and not to an individual post.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 1 week ago
Go back to reddit and pull this shit, no one here is that stupid.