[angeleyezx]

So remembered a Simpsons episode from a while back,

Lisa obsessed with her weight and see says something like

'I shouldn't make myself into the media's idea of the perfect body, but thats something a fat girl would say'

What do you guys think?

prev comments I've heard do back this message up that people tend to believe that someone who is overweight , annoyed with Celeb photos being penilised by the media as wrong and makes the average healthy person feel like they have to live up to this unrealistic expections(plastic surgery in young people triple last year apparently) is justifying themselve being overweight.

Personally I dont think this is very true, but then again I do want to look go after loosing this weight, but why do I want to lose this weight? not because of anyone with medical experience has told me to, but from tv that has made it incredibly aware to me that I could die from heart failure at a early age but also and most is that I want to look as good and everyone admire from the already stick thin celebs and people who are naturally thin today after thinking about it, I am feeling an overwheming sense of confliction, should I be losing this weight, Ill feel gd, but why because society has told me I should or should I not as I should be standing for my beliefs that we shouldnt be striving the the medias idea of the 'perfect body' etc.

Grrr! this is why I hate guys girly mags etc and newpapers and magazines

I HATE that one week theyll point out that a couple of celebs are too thin and next or even in same issue theyll point out the tiniest normally unnoticeable pieces of flab on them! so what are people suppose to think. Especally newspapers, crying over the kids being 'led' into eating disorders by celebs looking so thin and on the next page putting a page of a model or somone askig who ate all the pie!

Example, and group in the uk, the Sugababes, I love their music and I admire them, that had their own style and havent changed like so many over girl groups so(ie getting so damn stick thin then sending out a workout vid or an articel on how to lose a dress size in a week!) and a newspaper took a crack at there weight [/rant]

thanks for listening! comment as you please!

also sorry if I put this in the wrong forum, I didnt know where else to put it.

[2frustrated]

Yeah this is the right place! Very interesting!

A lot of people (ladies who visit this forum and others) are fit, healthy and happy with their weight and ARE NOT STICKS! Or versions of the carbon copy blonde highlighted Miss Selfish teenagers!

So being slim, fit and healthy does not an airbrushed model make. Say if you're 5'2" and slim down to a great healthy fit weight, well you're never gonna be Cindy Crawford are you? But you'll be the best YOU! I don't want to look like anyone on the cover of a magazine! That'd be copying! And where's the individuality?

I know my pins will never be a la Hurley in her split frocks, but my cleavage is to die for (and which stick celeb can say that?) so that's the part I'll dress up!

And yes the media is rubbish! Take Heat magazine for example, one week the cover is full of "too thin" celebs, the next they're pointing out someone's cellulite! Nice! And people wonder why bullying is so rife! Heat magazine is just another bullly and because it's written and published and on sale then it somehow makes it ok for Mr Joe Bloggs on the street to bully other people about their weight. Makes me mad! But then I try to avoid the media as much as possible!

Have I rambled enough?

[angeleyezx]

I agree totally with your post
I posted this elsewhere as well and someone mentioned this wasnt a problem so much for them as AIRBRUSHING, as its can be damn right just deceitful as even 'the best looking' people's pic have this done and its missleading no wrinkles, no weight and zits etc

[JoyfulVegGirl]

Great post! I had to reply to this. For me it comes down to choice. I want to be thinner so that I'm healthy and because I like how it looks on me, but I want to have that choice. I don't want to feel like I'm not good enough unless I am the way everyone else wants me to be. If I wanted to be 200 lbs next year because I'm comfortable that way I should be able to do that and still get the same amount of repect and love that I do now. Does that make sense?

Plus, the "standards" for weight that magazines or TV or movies believe are normal and attractive are ridiculous. Every time I read a magazine I end up feeling 100% worse about myself, and I normally don't care what the standard is. I try to stay away from all of that and keep in touch with what normal people think strong and beautiful is.