Body dissatisfaction isn't a new problem but I do think it is increasing. Most models are photoshopped to impossible perfection, and even the very slender ones are sometimes photoshopped to make them even more slender. Women with average/midsize bodies are decried as "fat" and some people see being fat as literally worse than having cancer. Our views as a society are terribly erroneous and destructive.
I do have an eating disorder myself. I currently am not forcing myself to vomit but I often react to personal criticism by first binging and then starving myself for several days afterwards. I think that the fact that I became bulimic at 13 and the extreme dieting that I did throughout my teens, twenties, and thirties wrecked my metabolism. Now in my late forties, I'm trying to accept myself as I am and not see exercising as a means to losing weight but as a means to gaining strength, lung capacity, and other positive things. I actually like to exercise but tend to avoid it because I equate not losing weight with failure. It's a very difficult battle.
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Body dissatisfaction isn't a new problem but I do think it is increasing. Most models are photoshopped to impossible perfection, and even the very slender ones are sometimes photoshopped to make them even more slender. Women with average/midsize bodies are decried as "fat" and some people see being fat as literally worse than having cancer. Our views as a society are terribly erroneous and destructive.
January 20, 2012 - 1:30amI do have an eating disorder myself. I currently am not forcing myself to vomit but I often react to personal criticism by first binging and then starving myself for several days afterwards. I think that the fact that I became bulimic at 13 and the extreme dieting that I did throughout my teens, twenties, and thirties wrecked my metabolism. Now in my late forties, I'm trying to accept myself as I am and not see exercising as a means to losing weight but as a means to gaining strength, lung capacity, and other positive things. I actually like to exercise but tend to avoid it because I equate not losing weight with failure. It's a very difficult battle.
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