naturally thin

i'm so annoyed at society's warped attitude towards food and body shape. i used to have an eating disorder and got down to an extremely low weight, but i'm not going to go into numbers. i tend not to tell people about this outside of the clinical context - i'd prefer to put it behind me and it's none of their business anyway. thing is, i'm also one of those girls who is naturally very thin - i'm 175m tall (i think that's 5'10 or 5'9), weigh 130pounds and take a size 2-4 U.S. but what gets to me is u always hear in magazines etc about how my body type is supposedly unrealistic, like no woman can achieve my size unless they starve themselves. yeah right...i have a BMI of 19-20, which by the way is perfectly healthy, so when u weigh me up statistically i'm not actually that skinny!! i know some people can't realisitically achieve my size, but i can't realistically achieve a size 10 so i wish people would shut up and stop harping on about how "skinny" i am. we're all built differently, some are big, some are small, but at the end of the day who really cares. seriously, being thin is not that freaking remarkable, no more remarkable than someone having blue eyes!!! u always hear about this supposed pressure to be thin, and it makes naturally thin girls feel like such freaks!! and the irony is my attitude towards food is so much healthier than women who are several dress sizes bigger than me...i'm not the one who harps on about "good" and "bad" foods or who says i'm "naughty" b/c i'm eating a piece of chocolate cake.

esp cuz i used to have an ED...i mean, u want skinny, damn it, 100 pounds for 5'10 is SKINNY, not 130!! i can't stand it how people will always go to me "omg ur sooo skinny", i mean, u never hear someone say to an overweight person "omg ur soooo fat" - it's just as rude! or when ppl see me eating dessert, they'll be like "how can u eat that and stay so thin"...seriously, can u imagine if someone said "how can u eat salad and stay so fat?"!! sorry for the rant, but i really wish women would find more important things to worry about than weight!!

It must be hard, especially because of your former eating disorder, like a person who has lost a lot of weight and everyone keeps telling them how "good" they look, etc. I have an extremely tall son and everyone wants to know "what's the weather like up there". I guess we are all overly focused on people's looks and comparing ourselves and others to ourselves and others.

People have different frame sizes. You can tell if you have a small, medium, or large frame size by wrapping your hand around your opposite arm just above the wrist. If your fingers meet, you have a medium frame. If they overlap, you have a small frame and probably tend to be naturally thin. Those whose fingers don't meet have a large frame and their healthy weight is going to be a bit more. Sometimes understanding that can help people not to obsess so much about themselves or others beeing different sizes. People naturally vary, and are not meant to all have the same body type.

Society stinks.

okay i am 5'2 and 120 lbs...i am a size 2-4 US...and i don think i'm thin..i may not be i mean i have small bones but i have pudge believe me..but c i dun think a size 2-4 is small...i'd like to be a 1 or 0.....idk i just wanna get rid of pudge...got any healthy ideas?

ressie - what size is "thin" depends on ur height i guess...most methods i know for losing weight are extremely unhealthy so there's no way i'm gonna dispense them, esp as this is an ED forum...best way is probly to see a dietitian &/or personal trainer and they can give u healthy tips for diet and exercise.

thanks guys for ur support, haha yeah my fingers do overlap when i put my hand around my wrist actually...yeah it's annoying when ppl comment, i wish ppl where less focused on appearance, it seems like such a waste of time (sighs...)

It's mostly jealousy when people ask "how can you be so thin" and still eat that. We're jealous. We want to be thin.

I'm 190 pounds, and obese. I was once "morbidly obese" at nearly 250 pounds.

Yeah, I see a skinny chick eating chocolate cake and I want to strangle you. It's NOT FAIR.

But....thus is reality.

LOL! That is a great point...not many people would say, "oh my god you are so fat!"LOL! I hate to say this but our society being thin is a great compliment. It is warped and distorted; everyone thinks you are being paid a compliment. I never mention a persons weight in any context; it is not my business to speak out like that! If people understood more, maybe they could see it is not always a compliment. Unfortunately, most will not see it that way...thin is in.