I was at a party this weekend and I saw a semi-friend there. I only know her through other people. Anyway, she is 32, always had a great curvy, slender figure. I noticed last night that she was terribly thin - I mean, cheeks were sunken in, no butt anymore, no thighs - celebrity thin.
I don't like to ask people about their diets or talk about how they look - but, I said "You look so different." I was shocked.
She volunteered the following information: all she did was exercise more and she stopped eating chocolate. Okay- celebrity thin, and all it took was breaking your choco addiction? Also, I am an avid jogger, I burn massive calories - but it would never result in my becoming celebrity thin (nor would I want it to).
Also, I've attended several parties with her there in the past - at this party she was smoking every other half hour. She never smoked in the past.
I feel like this is how bad, unrealistic weight loss advice gets passed around in our culture - people that actually lose weight usually aren't entirely honest about how they did it. The information they offer is very selective and pretty. It is quite obvious that this girl stopped eating a LOT more than just chocolate and has taken up smoking.
This probably should be another thread, but there is another girl in this friend group that also is now skin and bones. She stopped eating, quite literally, after a stressful event. She started smoking much more. It really seems like her weight loss (she was the first to become skin and bones) has set all the other girls off.... well, at least one.
Maybe I would expect this behavior with teenagers - but, this group is between 30 - 35.
And what is really terrible, particularly of me, is that I am looking forward to them gaining the weight back once this fad is over! Please keep in mind, they both had a normal weight before. They are both reveling in their celebrity thinness - but they didn't do it the right way. Okay - that is spiteful of me.