Can I just remind everyone that the uterus isn't what's making my (or most women's) stomach "pooch"?!

To begin with, sorry if this rant is long. I'm F22 5'5" 125lbs, and I have a stomach pooch. No, I'm not pregnant. And no, it's not my uterus causing it. It's fat. I've been doing 1200cal on and off for over a year now to lose the ~25ish lbs I've lost so far. I've gotten down to 120lbs before and it was still there. My body just happens to like to store fat there the most. At this point I think I'm going to just try to maintain at 125 and begin exercise to reduce stomach fat (running, ab workouts, weights, etc.).

I just want to say though that I find it completely amazing how many people have told me in my life that my stomach fat is probably my uterus. Like, what? The uterus is just an organ, not a giant stone in my body. It sits behind your pelvic bone unless you are pregnant or have fibroids (in both cases it would grow enough to be felt above the bone) and you also have a layer of ab muscles (even if they're not visible) that keep everything in place inside you. I mean, to my knowledge people's kidneys and intestines don't cause weird lumps to pooch out all over their stomach like the organs are falling out of you, so why would a uterus be different? I've actually posted on this subreddit several times before. I think once was for weight loss advice and the other time was for advice on my stomach fat. Both times, someone commented that it might just be my uterus and that it will never go away. I confided in my sister about my stomach fat one time, and even she said that she heard a uterus can cause a stomach pooch. My breaking point today was seeing a social media post today about the uterus causing stomach pooches in women and how some women just have a larger uterus that will make their stomach never flat. This is so dumb! The craziest part is that I see women saying this just as much as men! I mean the first time I heard someone say this I knew something sounded off about it, so I did a little googling and the first result was saying that your uterus can cause a stomach pooch, followed by every other website saying that it is actually false. I'm just frustrated by this misinformation and I want other women as well as men to know that this is not a thing! We're not in medieval times and we can't just blame all women's issues on the uterus lol. Don't make the uterus an excuse for stomach fat!

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