Please give an explanation. I have a research entitled GIRLS ON WEIGHT-LOSS OBSESSION, what is your perceptiopn about it.
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i can only speak for myself… i want clothes to fit well and good on me……
It’s just another addiction used to try and relieve emotional pain. Some people use food (or the lack of it) drugs, alcohol, sex. Anything that temporarily makes you forget pain in your life. the problem is that when the food, booze, drugs and sex is over…all the problems come roaring back and usually worse than they were. It never works out–no matter what the addiction is.
So these girls think that if they get thin enough, that will make them happy, that will make others love them. It doesn’t.
media, popular culture, society, our world is f*cked up, sometimes a pre-occupation with weight can be a way to hide real feelings, some girls have this obsession with weight because they are unable to or don’t know how to deal with negative emotions so they focus it all on what they think that they can change-their bodies. this is irrational, but so is war, starvation, corruption…our world is just plain f*cked up!
cause girls look bad when fat but guys look fine…
being a 16yr old girl and bein worried bout my weight. i think the biggest reason is hollywood celebs constantly being slatted if they put weight on. it also doesnt help when you can hear all the guys going omg shes fit bout some size 8 celeb
They r afraid of what other people(guys) think.
popular culture tells them they have to be a certain way and so they try and be that way
or the media
Media. I watch shows like Americas Next Top Model and feel fat! I know I dont have a perfect body, but I thought I was thin before I saw people like this.
I have suffered from Anorexia for 12 years and have thought about it and why it is for a long time. But really there is a lot of pressure from society to be thin, and it starts when girls are young. Think about it, have you ever had or seen a fat Barbie Doll? And similar dolls girls play with are thin, beautiful and way too perfect. It starts then, that we learn or get the impression that is how we should be. Also most of the most famous and wanted females are the thin models or actresses. If you did a poll of men as to they think is the hottest girls are the majority are going to ramble off some thin sexy model or actress. There is so much pressure to be thin to be wanted and desired. You can not even walk into a supermarket without being bombared with weight loss magazines or some other magazine for women that reads “Lose 10 pounds fast” or ” New Miracle Diet” Most All magazines for women well have at leadt one article on how to lose weight ot get in shape. Check it out sometime, Cosmo, Glamour, Women’s Day all of them have at least one way or some article on weight loss. And all those magazines always show you perfectly thin and in shape models doing their workout programs. Very rarely will you see an overweight women on those pages.
Because of models, and people in Hollywood. It is getting completely out of control, and it needs to stop. It is sickly, especially the new expression “Thin is in”.
America needs to lose fat. But it is wanting to lose it in 2 weeks that is the problem.
With all this scare of anorexia, there are fewer anorexics out there than obese, unhealthy people. People have to rethink the approach as being lifestyle changes and not short term crash diets.
There are a couple reasons, one is the media. It distorts what a girls self-image should be. There are also skinny, pretty girls everywhere on TV, in magazines, in the movies, etc. The media also gets on stars when it looks like they have gained a couple pounds, ask any actress and they will tell you there is constant scrutiny to be thin. Then there is the public perception that overweight girls are lazy, men don’t get the same public perception when they are overweight. Plus, think about your days in High School, weren’t the popular girls all thin and pretty. You grow up thinking that in order to be popular you must look like them….think and pretty. I’ve even heard one where it has been blamed on the Barbie Doll. Barbie was supposed to be an anatomically perfect female.
They see images of very thin models and actresses on televison, magazine covers, and clothing ads. Some young girls think that they have to be ultra thin in order to be pretty, achieve success, be rich, get the cute guy, etc. and then they start down the road to self destruction.
MEDIA
its societies values on “thiness” as being accepted into society…females think males want them to be skinner when in fact males do not want them to be superthin….so its more a female vs a female sort of thing…
Because there’s a bigger magnifying glass on women than men. Being an African American woman, it’s harder because as blacks we carry the stigma as being “The fattest” and then being a woman it makes it worse. Women we’re placed on a pedestal by men. This is a male dominated nation and men expect women to be the object of their fantasies while they look any kind of way because they feel since they’re men it shouldn’t matter. Remember in th epast when thin women were the hoopla of the world? Then times changed and women with curves and body came into style and the same thin women got upset though they picked fun at the meatier women for not being in? Now curvey women came in style and then people got offended and now are trying to bring them back in with the “Weight stigma exaggeration” placed women moreso society as a whole, throwing health care in there and everything *smh* Women are expected to be thin and pretty all of the time. You see big girls or plus sized women on t,v, or mags people are always commenting on how they need to tone up, pointing out their cellulite etc. But thin women with no muscle tone or defintion to their bodies are never told ot tone up or git rid of their little dents and wrinkles on their bodies. It’s because anything thin= great. People think since visually if you look thin you’re automatically healthy, fit or in shape. And it kills me when people say I lost these amount of lbs in this amount of time span and then end it with “It’s not about being skinny it’s about being in shape” I mean isn’t that the goal you were aiming for? It’s a misconception the more one-sided health discussion is the more women and young girls will suffer from it. Instead of promoting healthy eating, exercise and a being active we promote image as a scare tactic. I don’t even think it’s about health all of the time it’s mainly about image. Go to any of these health conventions and they’ll have the women on their talking about how sad they were when they were bigger etc. America does not like the way fat people look mainly fat women, fat men or obese men are perfectly fine. Since women out number men overall that’s the only reason weight and body image is such a big deal because though we out number men overall men still run everything and most men don’t like fat women. So the crack down on weight is more geared towards women than men unfortunately. Not only that but children are more vunerable to these things and the more they see these images Thin= Good, normal= Not good enough and Fat= Bad. The more women are going to suffer with body weight issues. It’s funny because in the 19th century there was no pressure on being a certain size and our nation was considerably more healthier then and the women photo’d were of normal size, healthy in shape but with curves. But now the image is “Thin is in” and Americans are supposedly bigger than ever? Doesn’t make sense.
Also the whole “This percentage of Americans are overweight” study is misleading. 70% of athletes are overweight because muscle mass outweighs fat mass, it’s more dense. So you’re telling me alot of athletes don’t meet their supposed weight on the BMI scale (which is not a good source to measure health all of the time) but statistically still are overweight and therefore qualitfy as unhealthy? They need to revamp that BMI scale or rid of it in general because it’s not the proper system to study whether men and women are in good shape or not.
When you see small normal sized women like Beyonce, Mariah carey and Jessica Simpson being chastised about putting on a mere 3 pounds yet celebrities like Jack Black, Cedric the Entertainer, and Rober Deniro can carry their extra meatbags without being quesitoned about their health or people going into the obesity conversation it’s very telling of our nation and what the real agenda is. Sure obesity and being severely overweight is an issue but so are women around the nation developing insecurity issue because of the obsessions and pressure put on them to look a certain way before our nation and health industry deem them as healthy *smh* Sad, sad world we live in. When you have women harshly critiquing other women’s bodies it’s become a major problem. When you have women 135 or 155 healthy normal sized women at that talking about they want to be 115 or 110 and are 5’11 then it becomes a problem. It’s okay to be underweight and promote oober thin bodies of women who obviously don’t consume much of anything and the first thing people say is “Well as long as she’s healthy” But a woman who’s slightly overweight but still healthy and works out but just doesn’t meet the required weight for her frame, and if people say “Well as long as she’s healthy” the outcry or feedback is much different. Oh she can’t be healthy and slightly, barely, hardly overweight, she’s eating for Pete’s sake lol *smh* But yet a woman almost starving herself, binging and then purging what she consumed up is okay as long as she’s healthy? TGhe double standards are terrible and that’s why littles girls are suffering worse. Men don’t have body image issues do they? America relaly needs a image intervention. And obesity IS NOT the number one killer.
And there’s a show on BET airing Nov 15 called “Dying to Eat in Jackson” about obesity in my community, talking about it’s killing us far more than crime. Though being severely I’m talking about to the point where they aren’t mobile can cause complications and kill, a weapon can kill quicker and our community crime is causing more deaths then a man or a woman with a little extra to carry. It’s really become an obsession to the point of disgust imo. Then they had the audacity to say “Are we losing the battle”? No we’re not I don’t see deaths about fat black women and men knocking our population percentage down I see reports about bullets and crime knocking our population down. Like I said it’s an obsession and if we’re all suppose ot be the same size, same shape and be healthy all together then that takes away from the men who like their women in different sizes shapes and forms? It’s ridiculous. Yet women can say to a man “He’s too skinny I like my man with more meat” and then there’s supplements to help men gain weight *smh* The misconception on weigt being presented to young women and girls has to stop. Anorexia is growing and eating disorders not overeating but “Wanting to be thin” is arising in “Minority women” google “Untold story of minority women” that’s the one they don’t discuss because we’re so focused on getting rid of the big girls of our community so we can look good as a unit *smh*
Also when you go to your local clinic or hospital are all of the doctors the image we see on our daily bow flex or Jenny Graig commericials? Nope. It has to stop. In other words it’s all about money for the health industry, and all about perception for most docs (they think fat people are gross” and all about image (thin = beautiful). The scare tactics are just the extra boost, the thinner we are the less money being spent by Health care industry. Young women and girls suffer from this agenda the most. There are also studies that support having a little more to carry is beneficial but they wouldn’t dare show those studies.