I love being super skinny and being able to wear whatever I want. I don't see what the fuss is all about. So what if we are a little smaller that you. If you want to be smaller, do it, if not, get off our backs. At my height and weight it is not even close to being dangerously thin. I still have fat on my stomach and arms. Don't worry about it.

[junkDNA]

i used to have anorexia nervosa, it was a torment to live with. i say that i USED to have it but let's just say it is in "remission"

it was basicaly just putting myself in a box locked inside a cage and throwing the key away

[loosethecordsoforio]

Originally Posted by Anonymous32504

I love being super skinny and being able to wear whatever I want. I don't see what the fuss is all about. So what if we are a little smaller that you. If you want to be smaller, do it, if not, get off our backs. At my height and weight it is not even close to being dangerously thin. I still have fat on my stomach and arms. Don't worry about it.

what are you hoping to gain from posting here?

Originally Posted by loosethecordsoforio

what are you hoping to gain from posting here?

Not weight, that's for sure!

You?

-Fleeing Bellocq

[Mossberg500]

Being healthy is one thing, but if you get to small then that in not good for you and it doesn't look good. I am recovering from an eating disorder sand everyone tells me they think i look better now that i put on some ponds. my boyfriend also makes sure that i am eaten enough if i forget.

[loosethecordsoforio]

Originally Posted by fleeingbellocq

Not weight, that's for sure!

You?

-Fleeing Bellocq

well, what i hope to "gain," ha, ha! is support- given and received.

[Molly-red-bracelet]

Originally Posted by Anonymous32504

I love being super skinny and being able to wear whatever I want. I don't see what the fuss is all about. So what if we are a little smaller that you. If you want to be smaller, do it, if not, get off our backs. At my height and weight it is not even close to being dangerously thin. I still have fat on my stomach and arms. Don't worry about it.

You are lucky because the majority of those with anorexia even when the scales say they are dangerously thin they still see them selfs as very overweight and never super skinny

[falling star]

Guess this is not really my side of the forum, but its so hard to be thin. I cant wait to be where you are.

[Sunnytonight]

Americans' portion sizes are too much. Abundance, abundance.

I had to say it.

[Redsoft]

I understand what you are saying. Social perception in the US is a very strange and precarious thing, with many "lines" and "fences" people use to separate thoughts selectively.

I've previously dealt with the problem of being told I need to gain weight, when I knew perfectly well that my body weight percentage was fine, HOWEVER, for me, I felt uncomfortable, unhealthy as it was.

I have since returned to a more fit state, and although I think I am just below the "good" range on that official medical body weight percentage scale, I am by no means abstaining from food anymore (not on purpose anyway - I still have my "forgetful" days or days I'm busy and my brain just pushes the stomach gurgling out of the way for productivity, but I feel everyone does that then and again) for the sake of abstaining.

I am probably around the fittest I've been in my life in terms of proper eating, exercise and body proportions (I have a small stature in height and bones, haha) but people constantly tell me I "don't have to worry about eating that cookie." ...Yes! I do! It has no nutritional value! People forget that weight isn't the defining subject for nutrition and health.

People are used to seeing heavier weights in the US (whether they meet the "obese" mark or not), I think. Can't stand it, the daily judgments, and know that I'm guilty of it then again without noticing too. I know that I have a petite structure by nature, and that some will never be this proportionally thin because that is not how their body was built to be healthy, even at a very fit state - and they look great. They could have the same strength level and body weight percentage, and people will only complain about the smaller person. Ridiculous.

In other countries, the official medical body percentage scale lower, meaning weights America considers "healthy" or "average/normal" are considered heavy elsewhere. People are just walking around with blinders on.

[TalaA]

... wish I can look thin and comfortable in everything i wear.. Wish I can learn how to love myself! I try my best but it doesnt work... Maybe the culture here doesnt help at all! I live in Jordan (Middle East)