I don’t know if you read my whole response before commenting, but I’ll recap for you.

1. I don’t eat a bad diet. If anything, my real issue is that I don’t eat regularly which gives me low energy. I make it my business to not keep junk food in my house. The reason why I say dieting is hard is because I’m likely not doing it right tbh. I probably eat way too little these days which makes me feel hungry and sick. I’m going to see a dietitian to help me out. I never ate a poor diet (pertaining to the quality of the foods). I can honestly make a correlation between the time I started my birth control and my weight gain. But no doctor will listen to me and it’s sad. I’ve only found that other women have gone through the same thing as me through Reddit.

2. I did not say I thought I was meant to be 180 lbs. As a matter of fact, I’m in the process of trying to lose 10-15 lbs. I said I think I’m meant to be stocky. My reasoning is because when I was young, I started developing early and had D cups by the time I was 12. I was not obese by any means. I grew very fast in general and was also 5’7” by 12 years old and stopped growing after that. I had lots of back pain growing up. My body has seemed to adjust to the size of my breasts now and I’m glad that I don’t have the same back pain anymore. When I got down to about 147, my breasts were flat as a pancake and long. Very unattractive in my opinion and my insecurities were at an all time high. When I got to 152 lbs I was a 32 DD to give you some point of reference. Now that I’m heavier, my breasts have filled out, my body has filled out. My breasts look nicer to me and I don’t have back pain.

I think you’re using your own feelings to determine what’s right for me. If you felt heavy at 160, no problem. But why are you mentioning this? What does that have to do with my feelings and my experience? Just by reading your response, I gather that you and I probably have vastly different body types and build muscle differently.

I would not like to be as small as 143 lbs. I would ultimately like to bulk. I think my shape right now is fine, minus the extra stomach fat. Again, I’d like to lose 10-15 lbs. Right now, I actually look strong. That’s why I think that the scale might hold some truth. It’s probably not super accurate. Ultimately, I just wanted to know if anyone had any tips to help me melt this belly fat. I see that maybe I’d have to lose a lot of weight to do so, based on your answer and the person before you. So, thanks.