Fat?

GlassKisses

Okay so...I know we're all here because of our weight (some to lose, some to gain, some to maintain what they have already..)

But I'd just like to state that I'm REALLY tired of the dieting adds.
I see them on TV, on the internet...I've actually heard them on the radio...I'M SICK OF IT! :noway:
I'm tired of having society's take on beauty shoved down my throat.
It's ridiculous. :mad:
I happen to think that people of ALL shapes and sizes are absolutely gorgeous!
WHERE ARE THE ADDS ON THAT?! :explode:

[P.S....
sorry if I've wasted your time. I just had to get that off my chest :flowerforyou: hehe]

GlassKisses

Okay so...I know we're all here because of our weight (some to lose, some to gain, some to maintain what they have already..)

But I'd just like to state that I'm REALLY tired of the dieting adds.
I see them on TV, on the internet...I've actually heard them on the radio...I'M SICK OF IT! :noway:
I'm tired of having society's take on beauty shoved down my throat.
It's ridiculous. :mad:
I happen to think that people of ALL shapes and sizes are absolutely gorgeous!
WHERE ARE THE ADDS ON THAT?! :explode:

[P.S....
sorry if I've wasted your time. I just had to get that off my chest :flowerforyou: hehe]

Anna_Banana

I was just thinking the same thing today.

kellch

Here Here:drinker: :drinker:

lcmartin

I agree! I just have to keep reminding myself of that.

stylistchik

i think dove does a good job on advertising people of all sizes, races, and ages being beautiful and happy. :-)
plus if it's an advertisement they are probably trying to sell something so they want to make you feel bad so you buy it. haha.

GlassKisses

Yeah, Dove is doing pretty good, with their workshops and whatnot.
But these dieting pill companies are driving me up the wall.
I understand that being like...really overweight is unhealthy and all, but what's with the promoting of deathly-sick looking people? I don't get it. I've always been attracted to more curvy people...it makes me upset that so many people are telling people they're ugly when they're really not.

neverbeenskinny

:drinker: :drinker: I couldn't agree more. We all need to love ourselves for who we are...no matter what the wrapping paper looks like, it's the gift inside that counts. :flowerforyou:

j_g4ever

Yep I hate all those diet ads too. :grumble: Thanks for bringing this up I have thought about this several times :drinker:

Marla64

I don't know-- personally, I'm better looking 28 pounds lighter-- Companies know people want to look their best, which generally means weighing less, so market their products thus.

It is what it is--

Renae_Nae

personally the ads that bother me the most are the ones on this site. My husband has glanced over a few times and got worried that those were the types of things I was trying.

GlassKisses

"1 flat stomach rule: obey" <--maybe I don't want to. Stupid sites, trying to suck me in! Ahh! :noway:

watch48win

I totally agree...if we were all the same weight, size and shape.....what a boring world this would be.

:flowerforyou:

LovelyLady1977

Okay so...I know we're all here because of our weight (some to lose, some to gain, some to maintain what they have already..)

But I'd just like to state that I'm REALLY tired of the dieting adds.
I see them on TV, on the internet...I've actually heard them on the radio...I'M SICK OF IT! :noway:
I'm tired of having society's take on beauty shoved down my throat.
It's ridiculous. :mad:
I happen to think that people of ALL shapes and sizes are absolutely gorgeous!
WHERE ARE THE ADDS ON THAT?! :explode:

[P.S....
sorry if I've wasted your time. I just had to get that off my chest :flowerforyou: hehe]

Just wanted to say that you have beautiful eyes!

jamerz3294

Your not the first to have that rant sis, it's ok. :flowerforyou: I think that just about every one of us has either posted that, or agreed to it elsewhere, so NO your not wasting our time! And LovelyLady is right, just for the record.

Losing_It

I was thinking the same thing today watching t.v. A weight-loss clinic in Cincinnati has a commercial where the doctor says "Fat isn't your fault!!!!! It's a disease!!!!!! Call for the new lap band."

HA HA Well, umm...I would love to blame on it someone else but I am the one who chose to eat all the unhealthy stuff and drink only Coke. My fat WAS/IS my fault! :devil:

Marla64

I was thinking the same thing today watching t.v. A weight-loss clinic in Cincinnati has a commercial where the doctor says "Fat isn't your fault!!!!! It's a disease!!!!!! Call for the new lap band."

HA HA Well, umm...I would love to blame on it someone else but I am the one who chose to eat all the unhealthy stuff and drink only Coke. My fat WAS/IS my fault! :devil:

See, now when I said that once everyone got mad at me-- must be in the delivery-- or that little dancing Peanuts dude of yours.

jenifergotti

I think we all feel better about ourselves when we lose a few pounds. But we are beautiful at any weight and size! Just remember that Marilyn Monroe was a size 14 and the guys would have died to be with her!!!! We just have to make the best of what we got girls!!

dewpearl

I don't know-- personally, I'm better looking 28 pounds lighter-- Companies know people want to look their best, which generally means weighing less, so market their products thus.

Yeah, maybe, but all the same they try to stuck this idea in your had that only the skinny tiny figures are appealing and all that. The media just keeps bombing us with slim girls and keeps commenting on everyone who gained 2 pounds until we all want to drop the last cm of "fat" just to be what the media (hence everyone, right? ) likes. I'm actually also terribly mad at this :mad: . Thanks for bringing it up, it allows me to vent .

OomarianneoO

I don't know-- personally, I'm better looking 28 pounds lighter-- Companies know people want to look their best, which generally means weighing less, so market their products thus.

Yeah, maybe, but all the same they try to stuck this idea in your had that only the skinny tiny figures are appealing and all that. The media just keeps bombing us with slim girls and keeps commenting on everyone who gained 2 pounds until we all want to drop the last cm of "fat" just to be what the media (hence everyone, right? ) likes. I'm actually also terribly mad at this :mad: . Thanks for bringing it up, it allows me to vent .

Anyone remember when Oprah had lost all that weight? The first time I saw her, I remember thinking she didn't look that good. I thought she lost too much weight. Even my hubby said that she looked better big.

All the ads used to bother the heck out of me. They don't so much anymore. Maybe because I like myself more. Maybe it's because I know that I'm loved whatever weight I am. I hope I've started teaching my kids that the weight has to come off because I want to be healthy and not because I want to be some pin-up girl.

Edit: on second thought "pin-up girl" sounds good. But skinny no-butt, model type of bodies make me :sick:

Nich0le

I think confidence is attractive. I see women my same size or even bigger and they seem comfortable in their own skin and I feel proud for them. Personally, I just don't like how I feel, how I breath, how I look. Not that I don't think I am still a pretty woman, just I am not happy in this suit that I have put on

As far as the diet pills go, I am absolutely against them. I don't think any reallly work. Alli tells you right in their commercial that you have to eat a low fat healthy diet to avoid the side effects. do you really need to have some anal leakage to do what you should be doing? We find out after many people, ok mostly women, have been using these "miracle" pills that there is always some horrible side effect they didn't discover until long term use was approved by the fda (and they don't have the best track record)

Eat right, exercise, get yourself healthy don't focus on the thin part. When you are healthy and feel great your perfect size 8 might feel great at 10 or 12 or 14 or you might find that once healthier and in shape 150 lbs isn't so bad!

Stay strong ladies! You have to develop eyes that only see what they want to in terms of commercial adds! :drinker:

AJCM

I agree - it is annoying.

By "media" standards, I'm sure that I'm considered just huge, but I'm within a healthy BMI, I'm fit again, and I wear a size 8 (some 6's, some 4's, even still have some 10's) - I'm staying right here! I was even becoming a bit obsessed on here, trying to lose more weight, when my body is clearly comfortable right here!

Good luck to all you strong ladies - and find a healthy weight that is right for you! I think women deserve to feel good about themselves, AND eat regularly!
:flowerforyou:

AJCM

Yeah, Dove is doing pretty good, with their workshops and whatnot.
But these dieting pill companies are driving me up the wall.
I understand that being like...really overweight is unhealthy and all, but what's with the promoting of deathly-sick looking people? I don't get it. I've always been attracted to more curvy people...it makes me upset that so many people are telling people they're ugly when they're really not.

Do you use Facebook? For some reason, everytime I log on, it says, "32 and overweight - try super Fad Diet" or something like that - I mean, what is THAT about?!?!?! Why do their marketing people assume that every woman wants or needs to lose weight???
:huh:

Marla64

I don't know-- personally, I'm better looking 28 pounds lighter-- Companies know people want to look their best, which generally means weighing less, so market their products thus.

Yeah, maybe, but all the same they try to stuck this idea in your had that only the skinny tiny figures are appealing and all that. The media just keeps bombing us with slim girls and keeps commenting on everyone who gained 2 pounds until we all want to drop the last cm of "fat" just to be what the media (hence everyone, right? ) likes. I'm actually also terribly mad at this :mad: . Thanks for bringing it up, it allows me to vent .

Well, "they" aren't sticking any idea in my head-- all I have to do is look in the mirror, for heaven's sake. I look better now that my stomach is INSIDE my jeans not hanging over it. I mean, come on ladies-- aren't there enough REAL issues in our world that we have to waste energy fretting over this one?

I don't care what the media says or what society thinks. I know I look better weighing less, and if they want to market all of the "easy, pain free" ways to look like Keira Knightly (a wafer thin, too thin, ghostly thin young lady-- ) so be it. What do I care?

And with Oprah, oh my-- we also now know that she didn't lose her weight way back when healthily-- so, yeah, she looked sickly. And yes, she's a beautiful woman when she's fat-- but, she was a lot better looking when she took off the weight years back by diet and exercise.

I don't want to be a pin-up girl-- as if-- but, I do want to be thinner, and in my opinion, prettier--

spazmother0727

I am there right with you... All that crap just makes me want to scream. My nieces have this feeling like they are fat and so on because that is all they see is diet ads, you won't be beautiful unless you have this ad and so on. They are 12 and 13!

Society is so sad when it comes to that kind of crap... Twiggy celebrities.

I agree with Dove, they really ARE speaking to real women in a positive way! LOVE, LOVE, LOVE DOVE!

AJCM

I don't know-- personally, I'm better looking 28 pounds lighter-- Companies know people want to look their best, which generally means weighing less, so market their products thus.

Yeah, maybe, but all the same they try to stuck this idea in your had that only the skinny tiny figures are appealing and all that. The media just keeps bombing us with slim girls and keeps commenting on everyone who gained 2 pounds until we all want to drop the last cm of "fat" just to be what the media (hence everyone, right? ) likes. I'm actually also terribly mad at this :mad: . Thanks for bringing it up, it allows me to vent .

Well, "they" aren't sticking any idea in my head-- all I have to do is look in the mirror, for heaven's sake. I look better now that my stomach is INSIDE my jeans not hanging over it. I mean, come on ladies-- aren't there enough REAL issues in our world that we have to waste energy fretting over this one?

I don't care what the media says or what society thinks. I know I look better weighing less, and if they want to market all of the "easy, pain free" ways to look like Keira Knightly (a wafer thin, too thin, ghostly thin young lady-- ) so be it. What do I care?

And with Oprah, oh my-- we also now know that she didn't lose her weight way back when healthily-- so, yeah, she looked sickly. And yes, she's a beautiful woman when she's fat-- but, she was a lot better looking when she took off the weight years back by diet and exercise.

I don't want to be a pin-up girl-- as if-- but, I do want to be thinner, and in my opinion, prettier--

I hear you, but don't you find it frustrating that normal, healthy women are called "fat" in the media? The concern really is for young girls, and young women (see note above - I LOVE my curvy, healthy body now, even though by Hollywood standards I would be considered "fat").

I just read an article about two dancing pros from "Dancing with the Stars" (okay, yeah, I watch that show) and the article talked about two "fat" dancers - one weighing 125lbs and one 130 lbs - there is no way that either one would be larger than a size four, maybe a six, and neither one would have a BMI anywhere close to overweight. So what's up with that?
:ohwell:

Poison5119

I don't know-- personally, I'm better looking 28 pounds lighter-- Companies know people want to look their best, which generally means weighing less, so market their products thus.

Yeah, maybe, but all the same they try to stuck this idea in your had that only the skinny tiny figures are appealing and all that. The media just keeps bombing us with slim girls and keeps commenting on everyone who gained 2 pounds until we all want to drop the last cm of "fat" just to be what the media (hence everyone, right? ) likes. I'm actually also terribly mad at this :mad: . Thanks for bringing it up, it allows me to vent .

Great comment, great vent, and I totally agree. When I see someone who looks like they need a frikkin Big Mac and they have no curves, I think to myself "Gee isn't it too bad God forgot to give her a butt!"

arewethereyet

Okay so...I know we're all here because of our weight (some to lose, some to gain, some to maintain what they have already..)

But I'd just like to state that I'm REALLY tired of the dieting adds.
I see them on TV, on the internet...I've actually heard them on the radio...I'M SICK OF IT! :noway:
I'm tired of having society's take on beauty shoved down my throat.
It's ridiculous. :mad:
I happen to think that people of ALL shapes and sizes are absolutely gorgeous!
WHERE ARE THE ADDS ON THAT?! :explode:

[P.S....
sorry if I've wasted your time. I just had to get that off my chest :flowerforyou: hehe]

awwwwwww come on now....dont YOU want to lose 30 pounds in 30 minutes! I DO!!

GlassKisses

Your not the first to have that rant sis, it's ok. :flowerforyou: I think that just about every one of us has either posted that, or agreed to it elsewhere, so NO your not wasting our time! And LovelyLady is right, just for the record.

Okay, good. haha. And thank you both :blushing:

GlassKisses

Okay so...I know we're all here because of our weight (some to lose, some to gain, some to maintain what they have already..)

But I'd just like to state that I'm REALLY tired of the dieting adds.
I see them on TV, on the internet...I've actually heard them on the radio...I'M SICK OF IT! :noway:
I'm tired of having society's take on beauty shoved down my throat.
It's ridiculous. :mad:
I happen to think that people of ALL shapes and sizes are absolutely gorgeous!
WHERE ARE THE ADDS ON THAT?! :explode:

[P.S....
sorry if I've wasted your time. I just had to get that off my chest :flowerforyou: hehe]

awwwwwww come on now....dont YOU want to lose 30 pounds in 30 minutes! I DO!!

Not really....I don't dig the saggy skin look

Marla64

I don't know-- personally, I'm better looking 28 pounds lighter-- Companies know people want to look their best, which generally means weighing less, so market their products thus.

Yeah, maybe, but all the same they try to stuck this idea in your had that only the skinny tiny figures are appealing and all that. The media just keeps bombing us with slim girls and keeps commenting on everyone who gained 2 pounds until we all want to drop the last cm of "fat" just to be what the media (hence everyone, right? ) likes. I'm actually also terribly mad at this :mad: . Thanks for bringing it up, it allows me to vent .

Well, "they" aren't sticking any idea in my head-- all I have to do is look in the mirror, for heaven's sake. I look better now that my stomach is INSIDE my jeans not hanging over it. I mean, come on ladies-- aren't there enough REAL issues in our world that we have to waste energy fretting over this one?

I don't care what the media says or what society thinks. I know I look better weighing less, and if they want to market all of the "easy, pain free" ways to look like Keira Knightly (a wafer thin, too thin, ghostly thin young lady-- ) so be it. What do I care?

And with Oprah, oh my-- we also now know that she didn't lose her weight way back when healthily-- so, yeah, she looked sickly. And yes, she's a beautiful woman when she's fat-- but, she was a lot better looking when she took off the weight years back by diet and exercise.

I don't want to be a pin-up girl-- as if-- but, I do want to be thinner, and in my opinion, prettier--

I hear you, but don't you find it frustrating that normal, healthy women are called "fat" in the media? The concern really is for young girls, and young women (see note above - I LOVE my curvy, healthy body now, even though by Hollywood standards I would be considered "fat").

I just read an article about two dancing pros from "Dancing with the Stars" (okay, yeah, I watch that show) and the article talked about two "fat" dancers - one weighing 125lbs and one 130 lbs - there is no way that either one would be larger than a size four, maybe a six, and neither one would have a BMI anywhere close to overweight. So what's up with that?
:ohwell:

Well, the media you all keep referring to I believe would be basically the paparazzi whose sole purpose is to ruffle some feathers, poke a little fun at the rich, take some unflattering pictures and sell gossip rags at the newstands. When Walter Cronkite (just to pick a noteworthy "news" guy) starts mocking Jennifer Love Hewitt for gaining weight, then I'll worry.

As for young girls, as mothers it's OUR job to teach them about these issues, nobody else's. I don't care what the media thinks about anything-- and society has a plethora of stances on issues that are harmful to our kids, and it's our job to sift through 'em and protect them and teach them better.