luxinterior |
01.10.2008 12:24 AM |
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Originally Posted by EMMAh
I would rather be the size I am (which is small, I've had people asking me my whole life if I have an eating disorder) than to be curvy or anything. There are many, many really beautiful heavy girls and curvy girls, but personally my ideal body type is pretty skinny.
I get pretty fucking sick of hearing about how skinny girls are nasty, because some people are just naturally like that. Just because a girl isn't naturally skinny, doesn't make it right to ridicule them. I don't think enough people in the world really understand eating disorders. I don't think enough people in the world understand mental illness in general.
If I'm too skinny for your taste, keep it to yourself and don't tell me to go eat something. It pisses me off because that's not something you should even say to a person with an eating disorder if you truly care about them. Not that I have an eating disorder, obviously. But yeah, some people need to read a little a learn some things.
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I'm glad that you can feel good about your weight despite the criticism you've received.
Personally, I dropped nearly 20 pounds when I was at school in Chicago, and at first I felt good about losing a few pounds because I figured it was because I was eating healthier foods (which I was) and getting more exercise (which I was). But when it got to the point where I went to donate blood, and passed out for the first time ever doing so (I was standing up and fell back, hittting my head on the floor), only to discover that my weight was even less than I thought it was and that I should not have been giving blood in the first place, it made me feel like I wasn't even in my own body. I felt like I was in someone else's body, and it didn't feel good. So yes, while there is something to be said for being healthy and yadda yadda, if you aren't enjoying the results of those efforts, what's the point? I've since gotten back to my normal weight and I'm feeling much better (even though I know I'm not eating as well as I had been for those few months, my mental health, I believe, has improved). "Healthy" isn't only about the body. And I realize that eating healthy foods can help to improve your mental state, but not if you are a person like me who tends to feel out of sorts whenever they can't recognize their own body.
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