Why did I have to read this article and look at the pictures?

[Nikia]

Do "normal" women feel bad when they look at this too?
I am secure enough in my recovery though that I'll eat. I still feel like shit though.
Trigger alert for anyone else that might have that problem
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15319430/site/newsweek/?GT1=8618

[LynzM]

1. Yeah, we do...

I've had some minor food issues over the course of my life, but nothing like what you've faced, I think. Still, the emphasis on 'tiny' and 'skinny' is hard on pretty much everyone, and really unhealthy. I think that all of the women in those pics would look much better, and often much healthier, with at least 5-10 more pounds on them. The worst example, to me, is Lindsay Lohan... used to be curvy and sexy, and now looks so unhealthy.

:hug:

[Left Is Write]

4. Kate Bosworth is shrinking before our very eyes.

I feel bad for her.

[greatauntoftriplets]

2. We live in a sick society....

Good luck with your recovery.

On edit: I knew I wanted to say more but was not certain what it was. It is this. Women are brains, not just bodies. Society will never accept women as equal to men as long as garbage like this occurs. And is promoted as something to achieve.

[Left Is Write]

3. 35-inch hips are a SUBZERO?

Please. My own hips - and I just measured them to be certain - are 33 inches, and I am NOT "waifish" or "rail thin."

I hate vanity sizing. Hate it. When I was 22, I had a 22-1/2 inch waist, and I wore a size 3 to 5. Now I have a 25-1/2 inch waist and wear a size 0 to 2. How does that make sense? Are they going to keep going backward? They already have double-zeros at some stores. What's next? -1? -2? Someday, will the zeros be the "plus-sizes"?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

5. I have a great example of how absurd sizing is...

Normally I wear Gap or Abercrombie jeans. I wear a size 2 in Gap and 0 in Abercrombie. My Lucky's are a 6 and I have a pair of cheap no-name jeans that are a size NINE!!! They all fit me about the same. Seriously, what the fuck?

I have a thin, slightly muscular build and I weigh 105lbs at 5'1". I think it's absurd that I wear a zero at A&F, but I find it way more absurd that there's a brand out there with a size nine that equals a zero.

[Left Is Write]

6. I was talking about this on another board -

I have a pair of vintage Sears jeans with a waist measurement of just under 26 inches. They are from the 70s and marked Junior Size 11.

I have a pair of shorts I bought before a vacation in the summer of '94 that is a size 4, and they are smaller than some size 1 shorts I bought two years ago.

[mark414]

7. that's not even attractive

i like thin women but that's 12 year old girl thin...someone get those girls a sandwich or seventeen...

and what's worse is that people think they need to look like this?

[crim son]

8. In college, I was a size 8-10.

Now, three kids and ten pounds heavier, I'm anywhere from a 4 to an 8, depending on manufacturer. And it's definitely noticeable this year, because I tried on a bunch of eights this spring and they were huge.

[marzipanni]

9. This reminds me of some old practical jokes

<snip>
" And number one, all time, the guy whose kid sister had one of those dimestore pet turtles, who got a series of larger turtles and made his sister's pet gradually grow larger and larger, then just as mysterious shrink back to the original size."

"My favorite practical joke is a variation on yours. Back in the 70's, Buddy Hackett and friends knew a guy who just bought a new VW and touted the incredible gas mileage he was going to get. So every night or so for a couple of weeks, they would surreptitiously add gas to his tank until he just wouldn't shut up about it. Then, like the turtle prank, they started taking lots of gas out."
(from a blog)

If you concentrate on being healthy your body will find its own best size. :hug: