Same-Same...but different

Documentaries on tv. They can be inspirational, eye-opening and resourceful..

I'm sure everyone has seen documentaries on people who are trying to loose weight. They often say that their weight problem is due to the following: "I wanted to enjoy life, so I started treating myself and eating whatever I fancied..". They would associate being happy with eating in restaurants 3 and 4 times a week or having a packet of crisps will watching a movie. Then they suddenly became overweight and are unhappy in themselves. Conclusion: they thought they were enjoying life more because they stuffed their faces but they now have made themselves unhappy and can't live a normal life and all along they were thinking they were living a their dream.

This sounds pathetic to you? Well, maybe it does, but to me, it's how I can describe myself, but the opposite extreme. I wanted to be happy and enjoy life and be healthy and active without putting bad things in my body (except alcohol). I associated being happy with being as thin as possible, resisting as many foods as possible and doing as much active things as possible. It's the same as overweight people..they associated having 10 bars of chocolate a week with being happy and enjoying life.
It's the lifestyle you choose, and you adapt everything around you to make this lifestyle livable.

It's funny that these documentaries are mostly all about people being obese, but you don't see half as many documentaries on people who are the extreme opposite. Yes, anorexia is an illness, maybe that's why it isn't emphasized as much. But, surely, being obese has often got the same underlying sources...seeking happiness in the wrong places..

The only way anorexia is emphasized in the media, or the only way it's shown, is in a "good" light. The celebrities who have lost lots of weight or the models "strutting their stuff" on the catwalk being beautiful and thin. This is classed as beautiful and healthy. These women all look gorgeous, but what do they do to maintain their figures? How little do they eat a day? What are their lifestyles like? They can't be living healthy..of course there are women who are naturally thin and can eat like horses, but there are probably more women who it doesn't come natural to.. They have to live their lives in a certain way, to keep a skinny waist. I wonder how many women are borderline anorexia, but manage to not let it get out of control and carry on through life as normal?
A few examples of celebrities and what they eat from day to day, to keep their figures..Samantha from Sex and the City.. She eats just 1 meal a day and Roxy from Eastenders.. On most days she wouldn't eat more then 400 calories!!
I read this is a magazine a few months ago. How can they work and act while eating so little.. I suppose I would have been able to do it as well..

It just frustrates me so much that the media classes skinniness as being good and overweight as being bad when, more often than not, the source of the problem is the same.. It's self-loathe and it's self-inflicted. Nothing to be proud of..But the media praises skinny people and looks down on overweight people. That's just so unfair and so wrong.. and it makes me so sad for so many girls and teenagers who feel the immense pressure to be thin just because the media makes it seem like that's the only way to be happy..when it's not..