Mermaid or whale ?
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I hate that you have to choose between Media pushed anorexic thin and over weight curvy beautiful. There is a happy medium people. It's called healthy. Thin and curvy(not fat) can both fall into the healthy range. Negative body image is just as harmful to skinny girls as it is to over weight girls. If you are tired of being berated for being overweight then get to work and get healthy, (not necessarily skinny) rather than try to bully the other end of the spectrum while justifying a lifestyle that leads to diabetes, heart disease, joint fatigue and a hole slew of other ailments that come along with eating poorly and not exercising.
Mermaid or whale ? How about happy, healthy human being.
Absolutely, I 150% agree. I loathe the "real women have curves" b*ll****. Real women have vaginas. The end.
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Women do it to themselves and this culture of 'The average woman is a UK16 so it's okay to be fat' is just as damaging. I'm quite sure that obesity is MUCH more prevalent than anorexia or any other eating disorder.
No kidding! Everyone in the US says size 14 is average, so if you're average, no problem. Well, I would have to be in the obese category to be a size 14. I don't want to be "average" if "average" is unhealthy.
Same here, I'd rather be healthy! All this 'vanity sizing', 'real women have curves', 'God loved me so much he decided to supersize me' BS is just designed to make it okay to be lazy and obese. I'm all for people accepting themselves but I'm not for anyone settling for less or being encouraged to settle!
It's also a personal pet peeve that "curvy" now means "overweight."
I could weigh 80 pounds and because of my body type, I would be curvy.
Yep, there's a huge difference between 'curves' and 'rolls'.0 -
It's the notion that thin people don't eat ice cream with their kids, go out to dinner with their husbands, etc etc that irritates me. Like I'm just sitting in a dark room with my head on the table and my stomach growling, dying to be "thin". FRIGGIN' PLEASE.0
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This is another horsesh!t 'it's okay to be fat' message that fat women like to perpetuate... Oh being fat is so much fun! What about being healthy? Throw away the potted philosophies and embrace your health, yes it might be hard work - certainly harder than sitting around eating ice cream with your kids but it's worth it.
This.
The woman in that picutre looks overweight.
Yes, she is beautiful, and curvey, yadda yadda yadda.
Personally, I am going for Athletic, healthy, and slim. My natural curves will then show VS my fat rolls.0 -
It's the notion that thin people don't eat ice cream with their kids, go out to dinner with their husbands, etc etc that irritates me. Like I'm just sitting in a dark room with my head on the table and my stomach growling, dying to be "thin". FRIGGIN' PLEASE.
Oh but didn't you know thin/fit people are miserable, hungry, angry creatures living in a constant state of deprivation...oh and men don't find them attractive either!!!
The lies people tell themselves because if they told people how liberating it is to be healthy and unburdened by self-consciousness and insecurity they might have to actually own up to the fact that obesity isn't this 'jolly' thing they pretend it is!0 -
This is another horsesh!t 'it's okay to be fat' message that fat women like to perpetuate... Oh being fat is so much fun! What about being healthy? Throw away the potted philosophies and embrace your health, yes it might be hard work - certainly harder than sitting around eating ice cream with your kids but it's worth it.
This.
The woman in that picutre looks overweight.
Yes, she is beautiful, and curvey, yadda yadda yadda.
Personally, I am going for Athletic, healthy, and slim. My natural curves will then show VS my fat rolls.
Because she is... very overweight. She has a beautiful face (those lips, my god!) and fab hair but yeah, she's very heavy and if she's happy that way, great.0 -
It's the notion that thin people don't eat ice cream with their kids, go out to dinner with their husbands, etc etc that irritates me. Like I'm just sitting in a dark room with my head on the table and my stomach growling, dying to be "thin". FRIGGIN' PLEASE.
Oh but didn't you know thin/fit people are miserable, hungry, angry creatures living in a constant state of deprivation...oh and men don't find them attractive either!!!
The lies people tell themselves because if they told people how liberating it is to be healthy and unburdened by self-consciousness and insecurity they might have to actually own up to the fact that obesity isn't this 'jolly' thing they pretend it is!
lol. Duck, I'm about to flip a table.0 -
I dont understand why this model's face looks so thin compare to the rest of her body....0
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I want to be a porpoise.. oooh or a megaladon (since mermaids count) because that sh*ts cool... wait, what?0
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It's the notion that thin people don't eat ice cream with their kids, go out to dinner with their husbands, etc etc that irritates me. Like I'm just sitting in a dark room with my head on the table and my stomach growling, dying to be "thin". FRIGGIN' PLEASE.
Oh but didn't you know thin/fit people are miserable, hungry, angry creatures living in a constant state of deprivation...oh and men don't find them attractive either!!!
The lies people tell themselves because if they told people how liberating it is to be healthy and unburdened by self-consciousness and insecurity they might have to actually own up to the fact that obesity isn't this 'jolly' thing they pretend it is!
lol. Duck, I'm about to flip a table.
Flip it!!! Then let's go raid an ice-cream stand and a taco cart!!!!!0 -
I dont understand why this model's face looks so thin compare to the rest of her body....
HAHA probably Photoshop0 -
The honest truth is that when I was younger and had a faster metabolism, I lived on junk food. I eat better and exercise more now than I did then because the bad habits caught up to me.
So, ultimately, I was much more fun and free when I was thin!0 -
I dont understand why this model's face looks so thin compare to the rest of her body....
photoshop?0 -
It's the notion that thin people don't eat ice cream with their kids, go out to dinner with their husbands, etc etc that irritates me. Like I'm just sitting in a dark room with my head on the table and my stomach growling, dying to be "thin". FRIGGIN' PLEASE.
Oh but didn't you know thin/fit people are miserable, hungry, angry creatures living in a constant state of deprivation...oh and men don't find them attractive either!!!
The lies people tell themselves because if they told people how liberating it is to be healthy and unburdened by self-consciousness and insecurity they might have to actually own up to the fact that obesity isn't this 'jolly' thing they pretend it is!
lol. Duck, I'm about to flip a table.
Flip it!!! Then let's go raid an ice-cream stand and a taco cart!!!!!
Um.. I'm starving. I would totally do that right now. I'm waiting for my bagel to defrost, grrrrrr.
Wait, I mean... I don't eat. I'm miserable.
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Mermaids are sad anyway
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The honest truth is that when I was younger and had a faster metabolism, I lived on junk food. I eat better and exercise more now than I did then because the bad habits caught up to me.
So, ultimately, I was much more fun and free when I was thin!
Ahhh I could never do that. I've always put on weight, I'm not entirely convinced that I actually *have* a metabolism. I was never one of those kids that could just eat and eat... unfortunately I did.. and then turned into an adult that did the same.0 -
What I liked about that post is not so much the way it criticizes clichés (the post in itself seems a bit of a cliché sometimes hehe), rather the question it arises : what Does “Being Healthy” truly means ?
I think both the original post on the door and the response are very much clichés.The best thing in your life that would ever happen to you is the day you become aware of the importance of having a healthy body; however, in many cases, there seems to be an ambiguity between looking healthy and actually being healthy.
Thoughts ?
I am very grateful for my healthy body. I look healthy (with the exception of those perceptions that I'm 'too skinny' but I think that comes from a skewed world view anyhow), and I am healthy. The lack of physical health problems I have lets me concentrate on being healthy in other areas of life (social, family, professional). So I guess I don't see the ambiguity between looking and being healthy. They go hand in hand.0 -
It's the notion that thin people don't eat ice cream with their kids, go out to dinner with their husbands, etc etc that irritates me. Like I'm just sitting in a dark room with my head on the table and my stomach growling, dying to be "thin". FRIGGIN' PLEASE.
Oh but didn't you know thin/fit people are miserable, hungry, angry creatures living in a constant state of deprivation...oh and men don't find them attractive either!!!
The lies people tell themselves because if they told people how liberating it is to be healthy and unburdened by self-consciousness and insecurity they might have to actually own up to the fact that obesity isn't this 'jolly' thing they pretend it is!
lol. Duck, I'm about to flip a table.
Flip it!!! Then let's go raid an ice-cream stand and a taco cart!!!!!
Um.. I'm starving. I would totally do that right now. I'm waiting for my bagel to defrost, grrrrrr.
Wait, I mean... I don't eat. I'm miserable.
Carbs? Don't you mean Raspberry Ketones/ 'Insert-name-of-VLCD-shake here' while you read your copy of 'The Rules' and cry into your Green Tea!0 -
Top half, very sexy. Bottom half, not so much0
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The honest truth is that when I was younger and had a faster metabolism, I lived on junk food. I eat better and exercise more now than I did then because the bad habits caught up to me.
So, ultimately, I was much more fun and free when I was thin!
Ahhh I could never do that. I've always put on weight, I'm not entirely convinced that I actually *have* a metabolism. I was never one of those kids that could just eat and eat... unfortunately I did.. and then turned into an adult that did the same.
I miss those days. I mourn them.
I actually don't miss the food I used to eat (I'm a fabulous cook, so there is no difference in my life between healthy and tasty!), but I miss not having to think about how much I ate.0 -
It's the notion that thin people don't eat ice cream with their kids, go out to dinner with their husbands, etc etc that irritates me. Like I'm just sitting in a dark room with my head on the table and my stomach growling, dying to be "thin". FRIGGIN' PLEASE.
Oh but didn't you know thin/fit people are miserable, hungry, angry creatures living in a constant state of deprivation...oh and men don't find them attractive either!!!
The lies people tell themselves because if they told people how liberating it is to be healthy and unburdened by self-consciousness and insecurity they might have to actually own up to the fact that obesity isn't this 'jolly' thing they pretend it is!
lol. Duck, I'm about to flip a table.
Flip it!!! Then let's go raid an ice-cream stand and a taco cart!!!!!
Um.. I'm starving. I would totally do that right now. I'm waiting for my bagel to defrost, grrrrrr.
Wait, I mean... I don't eat. I'm miserable.
Carbs? Don't you mean Raspberry Ketones/ 'Insert-name-of-VLCD-shake here' while you read your copy of 'The Rules' and cry into your Green Tea!
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It's the notion that thin people don't eat ice cream with their kids, go out to dinner with their husbands, etc etc that irritates me. Like I'm just sitting in a dark room with my head on the table and my stomach growling, dying to be "thin". FRIGGIN' PLEASE.
Oh but didn't you know thin/fit people are miserable, hungry, angry creatures living in a constant state of deprivation...oh and men don't find them attractive either!!!
The lies people tell themselves because if they told people how liberating it is to be healthy and unburdened by self-consciousness and insecurity they might have to actually own up to the fact that obesity isn't this 'jolly' thing they pretend it is!
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I will applaud a woman who bucks unhealthy dichotomous thinking any day. And the mermaid or whale wasn't about health either. It was about body hate and fck that ****.
This. Women are constantly being held to completely unrealistic physical ideals and I'm fcking sick of it, to be honest. Super skinny or super fat, all women are 'real women' and are not worth any more or any less than other women. Respect shouldn't be contingent on whether or not someone thinks you're aesthetically attractive.0 -
to me the most beautiful bodies are the healthy ones. and the mindset is included in this too; if you are in good health, treating your body right and do it for the right reasons: to respect and cherish your body for all that it does for you, then heck you cant not be beautiful!0
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oh and fyi id rather be a mermaid. just because she cant have kids or sex doesnt mean shes lonely! what if the whale has fake friends? or feels self concious and cant find the right whale partner? being half woman half fish would be awesome!
as for the smell, im pretty sure no one "smells" underwater. and whale is just as much from the sea as a mermaid so they probably would smell exactly the same.
okay now im just annoyed at that ladies answer ahaha.0 -
Love yourself for who you and not what you are.0
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Why be a Mermaid when you can be a Merman?
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We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn't enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies.
We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.
Lol. No, women get fat the same way everyone else does. Perpetuating this idea is just a stupid as the whale vs mermaid campaign.0 -
Why be a Mermaid when you can be a Merman?
Lol!!!!!
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