Japanese Magazines...

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  • Booksandbeaches
    Booksandbeaches Posts: 1,791 Member
    I remember in college when I weighed about 120 pounds, a Japanese national who was a co-worker of mine at a part-time on-campus job said that I was "big". I nearly burst into tears and he apologized. Now when I look at photos of myself from those days, I can totally tell I wasn't big at all. I used to wear a size 4/5 but he thought it was big because he was used to even tinier women.
  • skinnyinjapan1
    skinnyinjapan1 Posts: 15
    you can just avoid those magazines and buy other ones... I've never seen such a magazine before, and I currently live in Kobe. I read a lot of beauty and fashion magazines and even the models aren't as thin as those girls. So I think this is just a very small niche you've found somewhere in Japan, just like you can find pro-anorexic websites in the USA or Europe. Same thing. So please don't start generalising.

    Japanese girls are thinner en smaller than western girls but the girls I talk to don't feel fat or feel like they need to lose weight... So again, not all people in Japan are like this.

    I'm a western girl and I have a BMI of 27. I don't feel big here (not any different from in Europe). I fit in their clothes perfectly although the dresses are usually too short because I have boobs and am 167cm. The one-size-fits-all or Medium/Large usually fits me. Except for pants and skirts; Japanese girls don't have hips so I don't fit in any of their pants or skirts.
  • davidsgirl145
    davidsgirl145 Posts: 162 Member
    Do you mean this is ''Triggering'' a starvation problem? Your diary is set to 500 calories a day. Please don't look at these magazines then. And certainly don't post them because there are others on here with eating disorders and it might ''trigger'' them as well.
    ~ much love to you...
  • Shock_Wave
    Shock_Wave Posts: 1,573 Member
    TRIGERRING!!

    I'm half-Japanese, half-Korean and I usually avoid gyaru (japanese over-accessorized girls style) magazines, since they include this..

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    Your thoughts?

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  • mjhedgehog
    mjhedgehog Posts: 249 Member
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  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    They look stick incects and they need to be in hospital to fix their disorders. I suggest you get help too since you have your calories set to 500 and want to be 33kgs. I'm so sad for you. Stop reading rubbish if it's triggering you.
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    You are trying to avoid Japanese Magazines because you don't want to look at anorexic girls yet you want to be 72lbs and you are eating 500cals a day.

    Yeahhhhh....hmmmm....something doesn't add up here.

    And I'm part Japanese and also lived in Japan and it's not as bad as you are airing it out to be. Yeah, they have some issues...but so does everyone in every part of the world when it comes to image and eating disorders. I knew a lot of Japanese girls who were skinny and curvier and a lot of them were actually okay with themselves.

    I guess it boils down to them just being "People"....who knew....
  • RECowgill
    RECowgill Posts: 881 Member
    I don't know how people get so small.
  • ferrytrip
    ferrytrip Posts: 497 Member
    If either of my daughters were that thin I would be worried - how have you avoided the peer pressure?
  • vtmoon
    vtmoon Posts: 3,436 Member
    Good lord! I would need to walk around Japan with a doctor, cause I'm pretty sure I would break any of those girls if I walked passed them fast enough, let alone if I touched them.
  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    Looking like you are from a concentration camp can never be sexy and if it's sexy to anyone then they need to see a head doctor.
  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
    Can I add a little context?

    Firstly, this is an advert, not advice given by a magazine. I bought a diet magazine in Japan 10+ years ago, and it was similar then: the magazine promoted a healthy lifestyle while the adverts were all girls at my goal weight trying to get thinner. Back then, though, the goal weights were around 45-49kg, not in the 30kg range., so this illustrates a change for the worse within that time scale.

    Secondly, statistically, this is a young people's problem, in the main. Google it, and you will find statistics on how the number of underweight girls has increased.

    Finally, while I feel like a mammoth in Japan, statistically, for my age, I'm not:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18770328

    My BMI is quite a bit lower than the average Japanese woman my age.
  • Moosycakes
    Moosycakes Posts: 258 Member
    Not all of those girls look too slim! Some do look a bit skinny around the thigh area though.
  • kcoftx
    kcoftx Posts: 765 Member
    I currently live in Japan and I don't feel out of place at 126lbs. What I notice though is that generally speaking you won't see the same level of obesity as you see in the states.

    Statistically, according to that website, I actually weigh less than 50% of the women here. Go figure.
  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    Not all of those girls look too slim! Some do look a bit skinny around the thigh area though.

    They look like they are close to death.
  • SoopraBint
    SoopraBint Posts: 66
    sheesh..way to promote such an unhealthy lifestyle and a long line of Eating disorders.i wonder if the Japanese men really find these models attractive

    my husband does. his computer is filled with images of girls like this
  • mockchoc
    mockchoc Posts: 6,573 Member
    sheesh..way to promote such an unhealthy lifestyle and a long line of Eating disorders.i wonder if the Japanese men really find these models attractive

    my husband does. his computer is filled with images of girls like this

    Wow.
  • Yunnieh
    Yunnieh Posts: 89 Member
    You are trying to avoid Japanese Magazines because you don't want to look at anorexic girls yet you want to be 72lbs and you are eating 500cals a day.

    Judgement.. judgement everywhere. I just came back from ED Recovery centre and I didn't touch MFP. The goals and everything is set pre-recovery. Focus on the ttopic and not me.
  • JaninaRello
    JaninaRello Posts: 11 Member
    What I'm curious about... is that Japanese have the highest life expectancy on the earth but show average weights for women this low...

    Just something to think about.

    (Just want to say that I am in the boat of *agreeing* with the fact that being rail-thin is unhealthy but curious if I'm wrong to think that...)
  • buudharich
    buudharich Posts: 50
    My girlfriend is a US Size 3 and she thinks she is "big". She stands next to me, a men's 36, and she just disappears. She is considering losing more weight and her doctor thinks it's a good idea even though her weight is average.

    She suffers from anemia and hypertension and her diet is lacking from quite a few different things. I'm not a doctor but I suggested vitamin-rich green veggies and she won't eat them. I have to figure something out.
  • Improvised
    Improvised Posts: 925 Member
    You are trying to avoid Japanese Magazines because you don't want to look at anorexic girls yet you want to be 72lbs and you are eating 500cals a day.

    Yeahhhhh....hmmmm....something doesn't add up here.

    And I'm part Japanese and also lived in Japan and it's not as bad as you are airing it out to be. Yeah, they have some issues...but so does everyone in every part of the world when it comes to image and eating disorders. I knew a lot of Japanese girls who were skinny and curvier and a lot of them were actually okay with themselves.

    I guess it boils down to them just being "People"....who knew....

    I haven't livedin Japan (boo), but from the little I've around the Japanese and seen of them, this is what I've noticed too.
  • buudharich
    buudharich Posts: 50
    Weight loss is just the start. You have body modification that goes back to foot binding. That's more than a millennia old. Then there's skin bleaching, hair straightening, muscle stretching so eyes look forward rather than slightly-crossed.

    I recently visited in the earthquake-tsunami-powerplant area in the north. Japan isn't all that it's cracked up to be but that's the same anywhere, I suppose.
  • SoDamnHungry
    SoDamnHungry Posts: 6,998 Member
    Holy Photoshop! :noway: The "afters" are as distorted as funhouse mirrors.

    That's what I thought, too. Their faces look wonky, when they looked normal in the before photos.
  • _Peacebone_
    _Peacebone_ Posts: 229 Member
    sheesh..way to promote such an unhealthy lifestyle and a long line of Eating disorders.i wonder if the Japanese men really find these models attractive

    my husband does. his computer is filled with images of girls like this
    I hope that you are trolling.
  • pullipgirl
    pullipgirl Posts: 767 Member
    they look photoshopped
  • Oishii
    Oishii Posts: 2,675 Member
    What I'm curious about... is that Japanese have the highest life expectancy on the earth but show average weights for women this low...

    Just something to think about.

    (Just want to say that I am in the boat of *agreeing* with the fact that being rail-thin is unhealthy but curious if I'm wrong to think that...)

    I wonder if this will continue to be the case. Also, the majority are not unhealthily skinny, so it is unlikely there is a connection between being super skinny and living longer.
  • 777Gemma888
    777Gemma888 Posts: 9,578 Member
    Holy Photoshop! :noway: The "afters" are as distorted as funhouse mirrors.

    That's what I thought, too. Their faces look wonky, when they looked normal in the before photos.

    Jaw reduction surgery is a fairly popular procedure throughout Asia, so that is also something to consider when viewing the wonky faces. Apparently, as much as 2" -3" is sawed on both sides, which is then glued back together to create a smaller face. Similar procedures are done for the cheeks and chin too.
  • 777Gemma888
    777Gemma888 Posts: 9,578 Member
    Weight loss is just the start. You have body modification that goes back to foot binding. That's more than a millennia old. Then there's skin bleaching, hair straightening, muscle stretching so eyes look forward rather than slightly-crossed.

    Calf and thigh muscles reduction surgeries have also started trending there too.

    EDIT: Adjust quote.
  • cosoules
    cosoules Posts: 15
    Oh my gosh... one of my best friends is Asian and recently visited Japan for a study abroad and before she left she was really worried about her weight. I didn't really understand why until seeing this :(
  • 777Gemma888
    777Gemma888 Posts: 9,578 Member

    I'm half-Japanese, half-Korean and I usually avoid gyaru (japanese over-accessorized girls style) magazines, since they include this..

    Your thoughts?

    I am the least bit surprised given that the the popolarised notion of beauty in Japan and Korea are girlcentric that gyaru has a home. If the declared 'sweet spot' for females in that region are the ages of 7-9, it is no wonder that grown women are going through body altering procedures to defy it. The desire to emulate a doll isn't solely a Japanese/Korean concept - the Barbie-ites exist too.

    With reference to gyaru fashion, i am always more concerned with the dangers associated with using non-prescriptive doll eye contact lenses.

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