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Faye is curvy
lily-kiernan:
--- Quote from: Golani on 25 Jan 2009, 21:08 ---Most of my female-friends are like Faye* in appearance, (and one including temperment). I myself dislike (the appearance) of overly-skinny women (who do that to themselves on purpose, not meaning people who can't help it) As a matter of a fact, two of my skinny friends hate being that, and no matter what they eat, they will never become as fat as Faye, just because of biological disorders. People call them Anemic, when they aren't.
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Anemic, they probably are. Anorexic, maybe not. Anemia is SO under-diagnosed. I'm terribly anemic. Boo for vegetarianism. Haha.
TheDozarian:
Wow... this turned into a discussion of mathematics and biology. I thought I left that shit behind in high school and then college.
The best indicator for whether you are fat, curvy, skinny, or whatever is how you look and feel. If you look in the mirror and feel like you look good, you have no health issues, then you are what you are. There's nothing wrong with it.
If not, then work on it. You are who you are. No one else can make you feel good about you. No number is going to fix it for you. Learn to appreciate yourself for who you and get on with your life. Say What has had a few good posts on here and maybe that's a good indication of what people should shoot for. Have an idea about where you want to be and be happy about where you are on your journey to that point...
Rocketman:
tiiiiiiits
SayWhat:
--- Quote from: lily-kiernan on 05 Feb 2009, 20:55 ---
--- Quote from: Golani on 25 Jan 2009, 21:08 ---Most of my female-friends are like Faye* in appearance, (and one including temperment). I myself dislike (the appearance) of overly-skinny women (who do that to themselves on purpose, not meaning people who can't help it) As a matter of a fact, two of my skinny friends hate being that, and no matter what they eat, they will never become as fat as Faye, just because of biological disorders. People call them Anemic, when they aren't.
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Anemic, they probably are. Anorexic, maybe not. Anemia is SO under-diagnosed. I'm terribly anemic. Boo for vegetarianism. Haha.
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Doc did say anemia was a possibility, but that he wasn't too worried about it. Just ragged on me to get plenty of protein and eat healthy.
Hammy:
--- Quote from: JonSnow on 27 Dec 2008, 07:00 ---
--- Quote from: Jeans on 15 Dec 2008, 09:22 ---His statement implies fat people are bitchy more often than other people, which isn't true - they just have one more thing to bitch about.
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having an extra reason to bitch, doesnt mean you have to, especially if the only person you should be bitching too is yourself. People are being a hypocrit if they say they're obese or anorexic cause of the media. If the media told us to shoot ourselves, would 80% of the anorexics commit suicide? You still decide on your own, people always cling to the I'm sick card to avoid dealing with their problems on their own. I never saw media make someone skinny.
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My area of research is the eating disorders. No one with any real etiologic knowledge of EDs would ever claim the media cause them. It's a (relatively small) part of their development, absolutely, but no one would call it a direct causal factor. The introduction of TV to a remote area of Fiji did cause a spike in bulimia with young females saying that they wanted to look like the girls they saw on TV; it DOES contribute somewhat. The "I'm sick card" is a real one--they really are quite sick. Reading between the lines here, I feel as though the implication is that this is something they flippantly choose to do to themselves. But that is not the case at all. The EDs follow the same developmental course as most other psychological disorders: diathesis & stress. A combination of factors that are biological (neurological, i.e. within the ventromedial hypothalamus & substantia nigra; chemical, i.e. 5-HT levels; genetic), environmental (i.e. the "anorexogenic" family; traumatic incidents), personal (i.e. lack of other coping strategies), AND cultural (i.e. very skinny people on TV) in nature "cause" the disorders.
If you like, I could recommend to you some good research-based books on the subject that might help deepen your understanding of these illnesses.
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