Who are these people and why do you value their comments so much? From your description, they sound ignorant and judgemental.
The reasons you say these people say they wouldn't date a person who used to be overweight don't seem very strong to me. Fat or formerly fat doesn't automatically mean ugly (and after all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder).
Many people, male and female, eventually regain the weight they lost, but not everyone does. Take a look around, clearly not everyone finds having a fat partner a dealbreaker, either. There are people who've dated and gotten married at 300+ lbs.
If somebody wouldn't date you because you have cellulite, then frankly you're probably lucky to have avoided falling in with a rather shallow person. If you're looking for a long-term relationship, then cellulite is only one of the many physical imperfections you and your partner will discover about each other. There's also wrinkles, sagging, age spots, hair graying and migration, tooth loss, skeletal deformation, etc.
Not all fat or formerly fat people have low self-esteem or beg for compliments. Those are not weight issues, they are emotional issues that affect people regardless of weight.
If your body fat percentage falls into the "healthy" category, then you're not fat. You might have distorted thoughts and emotional baggage related to your weight and weight loss, but those are things that you can work on (and that you can work on while you're losing weight).
Not all people are as shallow as the people whose posts you've been reading. You might have to work harder at finding a partner who is comfortable with your past, but they're out there. People with disabilities and serious physical illnesses (including VD), substance abuse problems, mental illness, criminal histories, and very unusual worldviews can find partners. Is being (or having been) overweight a bigger dating handicap than those things?
And does the mere possibility that losing weight might not make it easier for you to find a partner outweigh all of the other potential benefits that can accompany healthy, safe weight loss?
Last edited by theox; 10-21-2012 at 02:43 PM.
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