why are there so many people going on diets when they are super skinny?

Answer 1

I've read a lot of blogs by girls who are like this. What I've noticed is that:

# 1. They don't THINK they are skinny. They think because the scale says anything over 100 they are fat.

2. Magazine propoganda. Magazines with pictures of GIRLS who are too thin to start with. Girls idolize the people in those pics. They become obsessed comparing themselves to them.

3. Their self-esteem is almost non-existant and they hate themselves and don't realize how they are actually harming themselves.....but it's sad because they are really ok with doing that harm.

I hope you are not in that situation. If you are...there IS help.

~jifr.

Answer 2

I reckon that when a super skinny person says they are going on a diet, i think it is because they think its cool to diet, to look like your doing something about the way you look, therefore if anyone were to critize their look then they can say that they are `dieting at the moment coz they look so fat`

Answer 3

People go on diets to become healthy as well. There are millions of Americans who appear to be in good health because they are skinny, but internally they are unhealthy.

Answer 4

Because they think that they must look like Calista Flockhart.

Usually because they get teased that they are "fat" when they really are not.

Or they think they are fat, when they definitely aren't.

I have a cousin who is like this, she is a toothpick and calls herself fat. Everytime she says that I want to slap her upside the head (I'm not skinny, but I'm not TOO overweight).

Answer 5

Evidently, the lack of fat cells in some people causes either insanity or stupidity

Answer 6

Because the media have screwed up their sense of self worth.

Answer 7

they think being skinny is sexy...
while actually it sucks to be a walking ghost