Dying to be thin?!

sarahazelnut99

http://whatcalicodidnext.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/dying-to-be-thin/

please remember to love yourself everyday and in every way. this journey will be filled with slip ups but if you love yourself you will be able to easily forgive yourself and move on.

DeeDeeLHF

Great article!!

melissabee31

Really great article about that issue. Thanks for sharing.

kristilovescake

Thanks for sharing.


On another note, I LOVE your main pic! Awesome!

Hirundo

Wow I love it ...
Might steal the link for the blog post i'm about to post !

thanks for the reading !

Oishii

When I was a kid, a size 10 (UK) was 32" bust and 24" waist, so, in fact, some size zeros are just the same as size 10 used to be, some are actually bigger. Size inflation has been rampant over the last couple of decades.

Equally, child inflation is rampant. The average 12 year-old is probably overweight by now. I suspect I and my classmates were, on average, too small for a size 10 back then (I was probably about 14 when I started to wear adult clothes.

I agree completely that it is silly to aim for measurements you'll never reach, but I think a little perspective is needed to understand that those measurements have not changed as drastically as people think.

RAFValentina

On top of this, the species has gotten bigger... we're taller therefore proportionally our sizes should be larger. Women in general are taller therefore our hip/waist to height ratio should stay the same but ultimately lead to bigger sizes. Not proportionally though. Although Vanity sizing is terrible.

Oishii

We have also changed shape, and are less of an hour glass. Before pregnancy I was more of a 1950s shape than a 21st century one. For whatever reason (added sugar, perhaps?) our waists are proportionally bigger, compared to our busts and hips, than in the past. It just seems a little bit unfair to me to vilify people for wanting to be what was considered fairly normally thin 20 years ago.