obsession with weight - Page 2

my names harooj btw, mkzara, its in my siggy 😊
well aparna, im not exactly fat, but u know wen u see all those really slim girls, u feel yr fat...cos there so skinny, and u dont know wot u are, cos yr not fat or slim, im kinda in between, so i dunno, but i wish i was a bit more slim

Originally posted by: mkzara

aparna (i am more comfortable w/ calling u by ur name )and goth princess(sorry i dont know ur name) u guys desi women have booty. we just weren't built to be skinny like other races. we are made to be covered well. i constantly feel fat and i am not. did u actually know that when women look at themselves they overestimate their hips and stomachs by 20% while these same women can estimate the lengths and widths and depths of boxes very easily. first what u see when look at urself isnt necessarily true. then i hate the fact that people r always telling us to be skinny. like my friend says that her aunt says karishma u r too smart, and too dark and too fat u need to lose weight and stuff otherwise no one will marry u. and that is just beyond disgusting. i just feel that society puts too much pressure on us and it ain't fair.

Hey Zara your explanation was very comforting . And Harooj i'm not fat either . But like i said i am not on the skinnier side . And its hard to be post 30 when your metabolism slows down .😭

taking care of your health and trying not to be overweight and keeping oneself healthy with exercise is good but obsessing over it and taking extreme measures like not eating at all to fit into size 0-2 is scary. nowadays all we see are more and more skinny women on tv all the time. Be it tv commercials, shows or beauty pageants. it makes us women especially young girls between 13-18 very conscious about their weight. they forget that these are the years they need good nutrients and need to eat well instead they are becoming more weight conscious and turning anorexic and bulimic.

i was watching a rerun of will and grace few weeks back, in that will was commenting on how much weight grace has put on. debra messing who plays grace is a bulimic woman and calling her fat shows how fixated these showbiz people are about weight.

i have many friends who are obsessed with reducing weight for various reasons. major reason is not feeling appreciated or being teased by someone close like husband or siblings or other relatives. it's sad that some of the girls starve to loose few pounds and then they need treatment to be able to eat normal food.

Originally posted by: Aparna_BD

Hey Zara your explanation was very comforting . And Harooj i'm not fat either . But like i said i am not on the skinnier side . And its hard to be post 30 when your metabolism slows down .😭

well, i have no idea wot metabolism means😕, but, thanx for replying anyways😳

Originally posted by: goth princess

well, i have no idea wot metabolism means😕, but, thanx for replying anyways😳

metabolism means "rate" at which fat in your body breaks . So as you grow older the "rate" at which fat is breaking slows down and you end up storing more than burning.😊

😳 oh, okay, thanx for the definition, u see how educational i-f can be 😉 😆

Hi Everyone,

Actually somehow I never ended up posting in this section even though most of the time my conversations are like debates to everyone. Anyway getting to the topic yes our society does seem to hold a certain value to being thin to the extent that many girls end up being anarexic and overly weight conscious. Part of the reason is that our eyes are adapted to considering thin as beauty. Just one look at the media shows us models who are thin and skinny and thus for most girls they aspire to loose those extra kilos. Furthermore, thin has come to symbolize good and fat bad in our society. In fact research has even shown that the defintion of beauty has altered in the past few years as the Ms.Universe every year gets thinner and thinner. So then I guess if we keep going this way do we want to vanish into air 😛

Excercising to loose weight and staying healthy and fit is not wrong - in fact it increases our longevity. But dieting is one of the worst ways to loose weight especially if you will starve yourself by eating salads. I believe in the fact that the first three words of dieting are die and that really is what it does to you. As fast as it kills weight intially, its that easy to regain it back. So hopefully people , especially girls can try to loose weight for the right reasons with the right method and there is nothing wrong in that. However, pressures of media and society are definetely not reasons to choose because today you are too fat, tomorrow you'll be too short or too tall or too this or that....We shouldn't try to meddle with nature too much unless its a natural way like excercising and that too for improving our own health. What do you guys think?

Dolly

Everyone like to look smarter.How muchever you fight that external beauty is nothing in front of a true heart.But i always keep saying that for a first impression external beauty plays an important role.may be in later stage we go for the heart.
The reason today teen age gals are dieting is to maintain their external beauty..If they put some weight they think their image get spoiled.Their confidence level will get reduced.Ofcourse this is true..
Moreover the more you put on weight more u spoil your health .So Gym,walking not only helps in Maintaining good health but also external beauty what's wrong in it??

Originally posted by: mkzara

i always notice how people are so obsssessed with weight. everyone is worried about being skinny and stuff and especially girls. i myself do it i mean i have lost 10 pounds in the last 2 months and i just want to lose 5 more i am a 100 pounds which isn't taht much. but i am so crazy about it and i am still better than some other girls. some of them dont eat, others r bulimic and i waa thinking what causes this obssession with weight. is it our own thoughts, is it our society or our parents or someone else. i wanna know what causes this supreme obssession that women have with their weight. for me i look at my mom's pictures and she was 90 pounds in college and i am 100 2 years before college. so its almost like i feel like i am fat and i dont want to be. i also feel that the media shows beauty is if u r extremely tall and skinny. how do u guys feel. do u obssess over weight and if yes or no why?

how u lost 10 pounds in two months😭 tell me also. 😭