Well actually weight issues have plauged women forever. It's because our society constantly pushes impossible ideals.
Why do you think the corset was invented?
As an additional example consider that long ago every women wanted to be fat. There wasn't enough food, being fat and fair skinned meant you were rich and got to sit inside all day. But even being just big wasn't enough. Consider "rubenesque". This usually is applied to big and beautiful women. However looking at ruben's paintings, though we see to be a large women was indeed the desired fashion, all these women have small, tiny breasts.
Now how many fat women do you know with small boobs? It's nearly impossible to find, breasts are made mostly of fat.
I'd also like you to look up some victorean magazines and lok at all the mirical weight loss creams and pills and machines they advertise.

TL;DR - Women torture themselves because the fashion industry (run by men, hmmmmm...) pits us against each other so they can keep selling us *beep* we don't need

LolitaButterfly wrote: My problem with wieght is that I don't weigh enough...I am like 5 pounds underweight...and you can tell. My ribcage shows and everything. I can't seem to gain any, but I seem to be able to loose it. Any solutions?

I have the same problem. I think that skinny girls have to take just as much *beep* as curvy girls. When a thin girl says something about a girl being too fat it's mean but when a heavy girl says somthing mean about a girl who's skinny it's considered "loving your body type". 

I think as long as you get a decent amount of exercise and eat a decent diet, it shouldn't matter what you weigh. I guess that isn't very helpfull if you want to gain weight tho....

Japanese companies have health checks and if a person that works there is over weight then the company is fined by the government and they have to pay more insurance. The fact that it's effecting someone else must be really motivational.

collapsing_cake wrote: Japanese companies have health checks and if a person that works there is over weight then the company is fined by the government and they have to pay more insurance. The fact that it's effecting someone else must be really motivational.

oh my goodness O.o i dont know what to think about this- i mean to a point its a postive thing that theyre encouraging people to lose weight (and it could be beneficial in other countries like the United States which has a rising obesity issue...) but like wow its also forcing people to conform and limiting their freedoms of food choice and other things D:

 that guy seemed pretty pleased with his new pedometer My dad is obease has been trying to loose weight for years he always complains that no one forces him to do it...like on the biggest looser XO May have to send my dad to Japan

Augh, I hate mirrors. u.u I usually try to avoid them whenever I can (other than getting ready for the day) becuase of all the insecurities that come with it. I'm the average weight for my height, but yet I feel extremely uncomfortable with how my body looks. I know it's unhealthy to obsess over it, and I really need to stop comparing myself to what other girls' bodies look like. The media is partially to blame, they shove so much "Skinny is beautiful" garbage down our throats.

My problem is that I'm very overweight. There have been times in the past where I'd stare into a mirror crying because I felt so ugly and pathetic, and I'd make it even worse by looking at myself and saying "You are ugly and no one loves you. You don't deserve it, anyway."

This was a few years ago, mind you. I was around... sixteen the last time I really felt this way. I had met my very best and most treasured friend at this time, and knowing her changed me a ton. I met her a few months before my seventeenth birthday, by the way.

Thanks to her and other people, I've been way more motivated to lose weight, which does a huge number on my confidence and overall happiness. I really like myself a lot more now, and I really must thank all of the people that love me and want me to be happy. They make me want to try harder. I do want to be healthy, but I will also admit I'm very vain in this aspect, and I want to have a cute and attractive figure so I can wear cute and fashionable clothing..

Ah, I feel like I got really chatty and said more that needed to be said.. but I can't help but feel that it's okay to say it here. ;;

Sakuracila wrote: My problem is that I'm very overweight. There have been times in the past where I'd stare into a mirror crying because I felt so ugly and pathetic, and I'd make it even worse by looking at myself and saying "You are ugly and no one loves you. You don't deserve it, anyway." This was a few years ago, mind you. I was around... sixteen the last time I really felt this way. I had met my very best and most treasured friend at this time, and knowing her changed me a ton. I met her a few months before my seventeenth birthday, by the way. Thanks to her and other people, I've been way more motivated to lose weight, which does a huge number on my confidence and overall happiness. I really like myself a lot more now, and I really must thank all of the people that love me and want me to be happy. They make me want to try harder. I do want to be healthy, but I will also admit I'm very vain in this aspect, and I want to have a cute and attractive figure so I can wear cute and fashionable clothing.. Ah, I feel like I got really chatty and said more that needed to be said.. but I can't help but feel that it's okay to say it here. ;;

awwww hunny :,[ no matter what weight or size you are, everyones beautiful ^^ and no media or others should be allowed to criticize people about their weight in a negative way D: im so sorry you had to go through that...


but im super happy for you that you met and have so many special people in your life thatll give u support ^^ hahha i think were all a little vain about ourselves so no worries XP

I don't care about weight. All I check is my body fat ratio, which as a nutritionist I do because it interests me rather than it being a care for me. 

I think as long as you are healthy then you shouldn't care that much. I used to but now I don't. My bf loves my body so there must be something right about it, that's what I think :)