I'm not sure why I keep reading this thread...I've always been within the range of average and y'all are making me feel fat. Okay, so at 5'5" and 150 I certainly would like to lose some weight...like 20 pounds of it, although my SO says I look just fine.

In American culture, thin is better. I'm pretty sure if you took a random poll of high schoolers for example, and gave them the choice of being a not healthy size 2 or being a healthy size 14, almost all of them would take the two.

Personally, I think anyone that wears a size under 6 is actually delusional about their size and really still in the children'd department. I'm sick of having to find my size 10-12's in the large section! I'm a medium dangnabit! Size 6 is small. No wonder women are made to feel like cows, they can't decide on what size is what, why can we just buy by the inches like guys?!