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people who ask:

"i think i am really fat. everyone has been hinting at it lately. i want to go ANOREXIC!! i need to lose weight."

these questions bother me first because a) people who are doing this are trivializing a mental illness that has killed 1 in 5 of its victims. it gives a bad rep to a very sad disorder and tells society that anorexia is a diet or a desperate attempt to look like a stick, when in actuality, the REAL disease is caused by abuse or rape or something so "wrong" in a persons life they feel they are beneath eating...

and b) it is unreasonable. i appologize but you cannot go from being oveweight to weighing 60lbs and relying a heart monitor, "overnight"...?



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2007-09-26 04:42:31 · 3 answers · asked by live for today 4 in Health Diet & Fitness

3 answers

not just here in a chat room but also in everyday conversation.
understand what you are talking about

2007-09-26 04:49:58 · answer #1 · answered by Michael M 7 · 0 0

People are rude and insensitive. Not to mention uneducated or uninformed.

I'll tell you something that has been bugging me about people. Regardless of her personal life, people calling Britney Spears fat. What does that say about us normal people? Yes, her body is different than before her babies, but come on. If she's "fat", I must be a beached whale. It makes me nervous for all the young girls out there that are hearing it. What is it going to do to their body images? Maybe she's not in the shape of her life, but she's not fat! (sorry, had to get that off of my chest!)

2007-09-26 11:52:46 · answer #2 · answered by Jenn 4 · 0 0

you're right people do ask stupid questions maybe because they don't really understand what they are talking about. I don't mind them anyway...

2007-09-26 11:55:27 · answer #3 · answered by lizy 3 · 0 0

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