Losing weight in Asia
I've been living in South Korea for the last two years and have lost 50lbs. I'm a healthy BMI and generally feel much better about my body.
Except. And oh god this is so demoralizing. I still can't buy clothes here. The only stores I can now buy from are H&M and Uniqlo. At Uniqlo I have to buy t-shirts in XL. I swear they are tiny, but the label is XL and that's the largest size they stock. At H&M also, I can fit into the largest size they stock. It's making me feel so inadequate, especially when I know that if I were at home in the UK I'd be buying size 10 shirts and size 12 bottoms (US 6 and 8) and I'd be really pleased about that.
It doesn't help that in Korea, there's this pervasive idea that a woman's ideal body weight is 47kg. My final weight-of-my-dreams goal is 62kg. I look around me every day and I feel like I've lost all this weight to still be fat. And I know that even at goal I'd feel this way, because of the society I live in. I guess in the UK it's the other way around, so many of us are overweight it made me feel like I wasn't that bad. I'd be interested to hear everyone's thoughts on how wider society's average weight affects our perceptions of ourselves.
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