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The Weight Loss Craze
October 13, 2004 - 02:18 AM
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Why are some people obsessed about losing weight? Why do the strive to be thin? What do you think about this issue? Please post your thoughts.
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Re: The Weight Loss Craze
October 22, 2004 - 11:31 AM
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Mostly because ads on tv show mostly thin "beautiful" people. This hurts people's self-esteem a great deal. Some people are overweight due to being lazy others do everything they can and still can't keep weight off. I think narcisicm (people who worship themselves and their bodies) is a big problem.
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Re: The Weight Loss Craze
October 28, 2004 - 09:49 AM
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Interesting topic..the weight loss craze. I think that the demographic most affected by this is actually my own, pre-teen to young women. We see these beautiful, thin, supposedly vibrant women and we think, "I need to be that." They do not stress their intelligence and how confidence makes them beautiful. They do not tell us that most of these women have done harmful things to their body or consume such a low intake of food each day they are killing themselves. But yet, that is what most young girls aspire to be, to imulate if you will. It is harmful and I think the scary thing is that no-one sees this is as a problem. Lets promote it, promote it, and promote it more. To be popular, to be sexy, to be confident, you must be a size 4 or smaller. Well if this was a game of bull*$@!, then I call bull@#$*. I believe there is nothing sexier than being confident, intelligent, humorous and able to love yourself. And honestly I think thats what it comes down to. If you do not love yourself, no-one else can love you either. You will constantly be looking for ways to improve yourself so that someone will not leave, or will love you more. When in reality, they love you already, you just do not love yourself. It is all tied in together.
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Re: The Weight Loss Craze
December 16, 2004 - 01:02 AM
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logicalife,
Your post cracked me up, it was so true though. Great post!
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FREEDOM IS THE SOUND OF OPINIONS CLASHING!
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Re: The Weight Loss Craze
December 16, 2004 - 10:58 AM
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Good advice all around!
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Trash the TiVo
December 16, 2004 - 12:10 PM
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It's all about self-control and self-esteem
People just need to focus on 'life'
Getting ahead and getting out
of any depressing rut they are in
The media does nothing to improve anything
Self-esteem 'wise'
Thousands are continually bombarded with
Diet this* and diet that*
Cardio this* Carb* that
Did you even know what a carbohydrate was 3 years ago?
-Unless you took a Human Growth and Dev. Class in College-
It was hard for the average 'shmo'
to tell you what a carb* was
The point is that you only need to worry about your 'health'
Not* your weight* Yes, they are actually separate issues
Being comfortable in your skin is number one
This means less stress for you
and fewer bad habits
Such as...Munching around here and there
Having a busy social and work life also helps
And 'stop' watching TiVo*
I dumped mine years ago...No more reality shows
Nothing
I get my news from the internet
And from the radio
But I honestly don't miss it
Trash yours tonight
Go take a hike
Spend those 40 -or more- wasted hrs of TV doing something constructive
Join a Political club* Dance class*
Whatever you want to do -Cooking class!
Just stop watching it...
You won't regret it
Or miss it
I don't
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Trash the TiVo
December 16, 2004 - 12:12 PM
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It's all about self-control and self-esteem
People just need to focus on 'life'
Getting ahead and getting out
of any depressing rut they are in
The media does nothing to improve anything
Self-esteem 'wise'
Thousands are continually bombarded with
Diet this* and diet that*
Cardio this* Carb* that
Did you even know what a carbohydrate was 3 years ago?
-Unless you took a Human Growth and Dev. Class in College-
It was hard for the average 'shmo'
to tell you what a carb* was
The point is that you only need to worry about your 'health'
Not* your weight* Yes, they are actually separate issues
Being comfortable in your skin is number one
This means less stress for you
and fewer bad habits
Such as...Munching around here and there
Having a busy social and work life also helps
And 'stop' watching TiVo*
I dumped mine years ago...No more reality shows
Nothing
I get my news from the internet
And from the radio
But I honestly don't miss it
Trash yours tonight
Go take a hike
Spend those 40 -or more- wasted hrs of TV doing something constructive
Join a Political club* Dance class*
Whatever you want to do -Cooking class!
Just stop watching it...
You won't regret it
Or miss it
I don't
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Re: The Weight Loss Craze
January 31, 2005 - 07:55 AM
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I also really agree with all of your answers. THe thing is that shouldn't teens be able to decide what's good for them and what's not? I mean, they watch t.v. and they see that many of their stars and models are all good looking, but shouldn't teens be able to decide what they should take in and what they shouldn't?
Also because of what teens watch on t.v. and because they want to be like somwone on t.v., they spent so much money trying to be like that model of star. This can all be avoided if teens catogarized what's good and what's bad. Don't you think?
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Re: The Weight Loss Craze
February 1, 2005 - 01:42 AM
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People are obsessed with being thing because (lightbulb?)
ITS HEALTHY!!!
Not everyone obsessed with being thin is anorexic or bolemic because they want to look like their favorite movie star. That point of view is absurd. I realize that there are cases like that, but its not the media's fault. People need to learn self control. People have the ability to control their actions. I think its pretty common knowledge that if you sit on you butt, and eat unhealthy your gonna get FAT. And being FAT is unhealthy, and it is nowwhere near sexy.
I think its a shame that there are folks out there starving themselves to be thin, and its too bad that they feel as though thats their only way to fit in.
But I am sick of overweight people defending their own obesity, by saying you can be fat and sexy at the same time. Sorry, but that is just and excuse that makes it okay to be overweight.
One of my best friends is really overweight (6'0" - 430lbs) and he knows its unhealthy and going to kill him if he doesn't change. So he got active, and starting eating right.
Bottom Line - its not okay to be fat. Not only are speeding up your own death, you are causing health care costs to go up, because the healthy people in this country have to pay for your health care, when you get too sick to work or take care of yourself. Granted this is the extreme end of the spectrum but its true. The same could be said about a number of other unhealthy habits people have (smoking or unprotected sex).
Its time we come to reality, even though sometimes the truth hurts.
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Re: The Weight Loss Craze
February 2, 2005 - 07:24 AM
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Here in Australia it has become illegal to smoke in almost every place except a few pubs, clubs and even some public venues. The days in which you can say to a smoker "That is real dangerous, you're killing yourself do you know that?"
However if the same thing were ot be said to a fat person they would be all defensive and probably (depending on who they knew) could sue you for degredation of charcter! what a load of s*#t!!!
If someone is fat i have zero pity for them, all it takes to lose teh weight is to get off your butt and actaully do some physical activity, start by walking around teh block and eating healthy. it is not that hard - todays society (mainly due to crap law systems and lawyers) has people believing that nothing is yoru fault, hence those two fat kids attempting to sue mcdonalds forthem being overwieght.
You have control over what you do, every choice you make determines what you do with your life - if you are fat you have no one to blame but yourself.
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Re: The Weight Loss Craze
February 4, 2005 - 02:03 AM
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yes u have "freedom" to do what you want to, so if you feel that it is okay to be fat and ppl make fun of u? There are quite a lot of things ppl do which arent healthy, (TV, smoking, Video Games etc (too much of anything actually)) - but nobody makes fun of you then because i guess almost everyone does it, and it is normal, while in all tv channels and all magazines there are only thin women.
In the Barock times, if you were thin, then people might have sed the same only the other way round - do some eating. look at you you look like a skeleton. etc
Its the same with smoking, ppl should be able to do wat they want to although i belive its okay to tell a 9 year old or so that it isnt good or something (eventhough i dont think that will enlighten him).
people should be able to do what they want, and if you have a problem with it then its your problem.
However if someone hu is overweight, or underweight has a problem with it too he shud "do some physical activity, start by walking around teh block and eating healthy. "
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Re: The Weight Loss Craze
March 16, 2005 - 06:16 AM
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i think one of main issues when we are looking about why people strive to be thin or to be fat is seen as a bad thing is, why do people do it? is it because thin is seen as being the best thing or is it a form of survival? what i mean by this is if the person is thin then they will not be picked on because of their size.
there are a lot of factors to consider when we are taking about what is fat and what isn't. first of all there are people out their who are gentically predispositioned to being big. the second of all is what people consider as being fat. does being fat to you mean that they aren't a size 6 or the fact that they can't walk due to their weight?
being a big size doesn't mean that a person is fat. if they have a big bone structure or they are made up of muscle isn't fat it's just how they are.
what we should be looking at is a height and weight comparison. you can this chart on the web. being a certain height allows you to be wqithin a certain range of weight. if you are below it you are to thin and if you are above it to big. being in the middle is the best.
but the most important factor to consider is that does it really matter whether the person is big or not? it's their choice and people should respect that. anyway the personality of the person should be more important than what they look like. there are people in this world who are extremely beautiful but have no personality at all. there are other people who are big but have the most fantastic personality so don't judge a book by it's cover! look deeper that's what we should be stressing in the world not that if you are thin you are beautiful.
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