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I am 5'4 119 pounds and my BMI is 20.3 I play tennis in weekends I exercise because I think I am fat but my mom says I am perfect and my friends think I'm pretty and tall for my age but I don't think so everytime I look at different I think I'm fat and I was close to getting anorexic signs once but then I stopped. I've been living my life with bad body image for 2 years now and I can't stop. How can I stop?

http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070807/NATION/108070050/1002

U.S. women losing girth control

Obesity has become more socially acceptable these days, according to their analysis of recent health and socioeconomic statistics. Coupled with feminine tastes for super-sized meals and other factors, the trend toward more gal girth has become more pronounced — and is here to stay, the researchers predict.

Currently, more than a third of women over 20 are obese. But self-image is changing, too. In 1994, the average women weighed 147 but wished she weighed 132. By 2002, the researchers found, she tipped the scales at 153 but longed to be 135.

MEDICALLY SPEAKING, MOST AGREE THAT THIS TREND IS A DANGEROUS ONE BECAUSE OF IT'S CONNECTION WITH DIABETES, CANCER AND OTHER DISEASES.

Do all women just really want to waste taxpayer money to pay for all their illnesses or are they really delusional enough to think that being a fattie is good because it means you have a healthy body image?

I am slim petite female and have no bust or bum, but do have a waist. I enjoy swimming, running and the gym and cycle to work (15 miles each way).
Is there a way to change my body shape so that I have a few more curves (without surgery).
btw - my stomach is pretty flat and yes I do do crunches of various sorts.

i have struggled with eating disorders [ anorexia, bulimia, binge, and chew&spit ] for just over a year now.

i know that i have a distorted body image, but it often overcomes me and i take it as reality. It calmed down for awhile, but recently its been getting bad.

like i will see myself obese, but then i blink and i will see myself as a skeleton [ which i know i am definately not ]

i cant help it, but sometimes it brings me to tears.

how can i control my image? or how can i know reality from distortion?
ok look. i never got super thin. and i am NOT proud of my eating disorder. it screwed me over and i cant get out of it now. ya i know there are starving people in Africa. EVERYONE knows that. its not like i can just stop my eating disorder. it doesnt work like that.

How many pounds are you overweight and like to loose? I need to loose 25 pounds.

Sex is still a bit taboo in the states compared to other European countries. We can see that in foreign films, books, news, and more. Why isn't the US more liberated sexual? When do you think this freedom will occur? And how do you feel it correlates with body image? (The notion that you have to be thin to be beautiful.)
I was discussing body image and how it related to our sexual repression with some friends and I was curious on everyone's take.

i want the website to show the items so that i can look for similar ones in other stores. and is there any other website which shows what style different body shape can pull off. thanks in advance!!
In between pear-shaped an dhourglass body type to be exact.

When looking at the topic obesity and body image from any of the three sociological perspectives conflict, functionalist, and symbolic interactionst which of them explains projected social change?
Please serious answers only.

Hey..i have another question. How does you body image affect your self esteem? do you think men and women think about thier bodies differently of differ in how important they feel their physical appearance is? Have media “ideals” of male and female bodies affected you or people you know either negativly of positively? Please help…atleast answer one of the questions if not all….thanks

Hi, i am currently looking for exercises that will contour my body shape or make my body shape look even more perfect. But i am overwhelmed with so many choices. So which choices should i opt for? Yoga? Aerobics? Belly-dancing?