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Question: If you are curvy/fat/heavy/high BMI/obese/overweight, which word would you prefer people to use for you?

Note: I have heard that one of these words is a slur, but when I googled it I found a lot of controversy, so I'm including it to see the results. Also, one of these is a medical term, but my aunt brought it up as a non-offensive way to describe people.

What do you want other people to use to describe you

Curvy

Fat

Heavy

High BMI

Obese

Overweight

Other (tags)

I am not and would like to see the results

Voting ended onAug 1, 2023

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Life Updates

My neurologist and Gynecologist doctor both recommended me to lose weight based on my BMI instead of an actual weight and has given me an 18 month period to do so. A year or two ago I wouldn't have taken their advice and would have probably restricted or ate whatever I wanted. Now I've come to realize that even if it's not my weight losing it won't hurt anything. I'm actually willing to follow their statements because unlike all my other doctors growing up they've actually tested out as much as they can for me and ruled down that the possibility that I'm suffering from migraines and I could stop the frequency by losing some weight. My blood results come back normal or normal for the majority of things with some things I can't work on until November because I won't be in my home state again due to college. Like my hormone levels are slightly off and I can't do the imaging for it until November and because I'm on a certain headache medicine I can't be placed on Birth control pills (which I fought hard against with my gynecologist because she tried prescribing them but I knew I can't since my migraines pills are being put to 150mg and they've already clashed before so I'm nit trying to bleed again and she finally caved and gave me the only pills *no estrogen* that worked to stop my over menstruating because I personally don't want to be placed back on birth control pills). My health has always been a special case to any doctor I meet so it's hard for me to trust them as a whole so to be able to trust the doctors I have now is great which is amazing for me. I rarely am able to do that since my old doctors never tested out my concerns or believed me when I told them something was wrong and would tell me to lose the weight and leave only for me to learn years or months later (which also just happened recently when I met my neurologist for the first time and caught a concern on my blood test that I had that two doctors didn't see cause it was in the normal range but due to my age and family history I was at risk) that what I was worried about was valid and damaged my health or came up later on to affect my health. The recent one was my hemoglobin being higher and he showed concerned that I had when I saw it and asked if my doctors ever told me it was wrong for it to be as high despite being in the normal range and I told him no after laughing and that they called me a "special case" but because I was able to bring it down after 6 months myself he told me to keep going and he'll retest it once we meet again. If I hadn't bleed for a month after knowing something was wrong and asking my doctor for a blood panel and being denied, he'd never be able to tell that difference took place.