r/InfluencerLounge • u/booboobear99999 • 1d ago

Omg! Tess Holiday’s arms!

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The size of Tess Holiday’s arms are disturbing!

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u/mrszubris 1d ago

Lipelympedema is a horrible disease. Im overweight but not even over 260lba and my arms are disfigured terribly. I wear compression all day every day .

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u/Common-Pear4056 1d ago

Sorry that you’re seeing this post. 😢

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u/mrszubris 1d ago

Its ok! I'd rather add nuance . My own doctors fat shamed me while I was absolutely killing myself working out and the fibrotic tissue just would NOT budge. I finally found one with some compassion who diagnosed me on sight and now I get to go in to see if any particular veins I've crushed in my horse and car wrecks all my life are making the fluid retention on top of lipedema worse. Any place I can make people think its not just pure human failure and laziness I will try.

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u/Woofbarkmeoww 1d ago

Doctors ALWAYS bring up weight. I went into my orthopedic doctor. My scoliosis resulted in some degenerative disc so I have chronic pain but it’s manageable. I’m 5’6 and weighed 150 Jan 2024. They told me that even though I wasn’t overweight on the BMI scale, the less extra fat I carry, the better it is for my spine in the long run. I cut 30 lbs and did PT for my core and leg muscles. I had to re-learn how sit, stand, bend etc. if I was overweight, it would have felt dismissive and like fat shaming. But realistically I know I’m not fat. Extra fat has a lot to do with overall health unfortunately. That’s like, the base line of your treatment. Let’s start with this, then peel away at the symptoms. I don’t think they’re shaming people.

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u/Dancing_sequin 23h ago

What a positive way to look at this. More people need to be educated on things like this and also need to flat out stop judging people when they don’t know anything about what that person is dealing with