Thank you for your sympathies. I really appreciate it.

It is a actually common condition. About 11% of women have lipedema. More women have lipdema than are left-handed. Sadly only about 10% of doctors know about it. Most women with it are just told we aren't doing enough for trying to lose weight. Peole who see me often make all kinds of negative assumptions based off of my body size. I live on a very strict lifestyle with intense diet and exercise simply to slow the progression of the disease, but it will still progress.

I know there are people who don't diet and exercise and make up lots of excuses for it. However, that is not me and the hundreds of thousands of other women with lipedema. I want people to not assume that just because I am fat, it's not because I don't diet and exercise. I live this intense lifestyle, and then people are all to happy to assume I'm just lazy and give me strange diet advice that doesn't work with lipedema. If there is a disease like lipedema, there are other fat disorders too. For some people weight loss is real simple, calories out minus calories in, but for me, it doesn't work like that, and I am not alone.