thin people everywhere!!!!!

I totally agree with you I love reading magazines but whenever I pick it up it just feeds my anorexia!

I compare myself like you said and I envy the other slimmer girls.

I would hate to think that magazines and stuff create eating disorders but they do.

It also creates the picture that skinny people are the most popular and succesful which is the wrong image to give.

I totally agree that these things in the medis should definatly not be so wide spread!

Jennyxx

i dont find the media made me ill, but i find it makes it so hard to recover...

i jsut rationalise that well this size is socially acceptable, people are used to seeing it, and i can just about find clothes to fit, so therefore it must be ok?

My friends who know about the anorexia tell me i look awful and need to gain weight, but then people who dont know tell me they are envious of how skinny i am and how i look good in everything, and i like hearing it but at the same tiem it makes me sad as i know i have to gain and i shud not be this size, but then its liek if they think i look good at this size, why shud i have to change? GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

I agree as well. I love reading magazines, and whenever I turn the page, there is usually an advertisement for losing weight, or a thin celebrity, or a skinny model or something along those lines.

I can't help comparing myself to them. Then like you say, the anorexia come out and starts putting it's two pence in. I think magazines shouldn't be able to publish models who are enhanced on the computer. It's not fair. It just feeds the anorexia. Like the people in the media wants everyone to be suffering from an eating disorder. What sort of a world do we live in?

xxxxAimiexxxx

I don't want to be as thin as the models or celebs as some of them look awful, but seeing the images doesn't help as it sometimes makes me think I don't have to be much bigger as the images show successful people who are admired and can look good when they are way to thin and I think there should be a bigger variety im magazines.

tell me about it! you cant buy a magzine, turn on the tv or anything without some skinny person or diet bein spoken about. its difficult as ther is a huge problem with obesity so promoting diet seems like a good idea but why do they never speak about people being healthy and a normal weight and maintaining it? everyone has the attitude that the more weight lost the better and the lower calorie food the better and it does my hed in! xxx

I no exactly wot u mean once I just glanced through a magazine n on d help page a girl was saying i lurrvve food etc. but im thin am i anorexic? i was just thinking omg! but i carried onn reading n dere was a section saying 'My celeb life' with loadsa stories in n 1 was 'I beat anorxia like Mary-Kate!' n dats d way ppl c it just dis celeb problem onli models and actresses get it reli bugs me coz every1 thinks were just doin it 2 b slim n dey neva think about d phycological side!xx

 xMissxGx-  ppl can be really cruel and don't think ov this as an illness... 4get them the don't matter. they couldn't cope with what we hav to xxx

aww thx littleladyd = ) howz u gettin on?

I got really annoyed this week!! I went to a shop and so many mags had celebs on the front that had lost weight to fit in bikinis and all these diet secrets, then there were pics of celebs that had 'let themselves go' but they look thin!

It is not setting a good impression I would love a body like the celebs.

I guess I have to ignore it and think it's only coz they are celebs and that us normal people would be complemented if we looked like that, the celebs aren't really fat but they need something to write about.

I saw a programme to with natalie cassidy and heat mag were saying that it is diet and food stories that sell the best and I think that's really sad.

being totally honest not that well really i feel like i hav 2 much 2 deal with and im really getn down about it. i really h8 da way i luc and im finding it hard 2 think bout anythin else but food and weight. its horrible. u? xxx

i no exaclty how u feel it completely takes ova ur life! there r ppl tellin me im 2 thin but wen i luk in d mirror all i cn c i 2 c is a fat person! rite now im avoidin lukin @ my stomach 2 much n dats helped. I have days wen im just so depressed but my mums bein supportive and wen i cant tell her sumthin, like its hard  to explain i draw how i feel- metephorical type drawings. seems silly but i luv art n its always caalmed me down and then i draw all in one sketch book so wen i close it its like closing all d bad feelings. Sounds stupid i know but i reallly works 4 me! Good luck with everything xxx

Miss G- If you don't mind me asking??? What kind of sketches do you draw? I have trouble getting my feelings out and that sounds really helpful.

xxx sarah

errm well stuff like i draw d anorexia as a devil type thing with fire behind and it was hiding my eyes to represent that i cudnnt c myself how i actually am coz of d anorexia n one of me in d middle n my mum worried on 1 side n my friends annoyed on d other 2 show how d anorexia affects others n things like dat! If that makes n e sense gr8 i cud b a help

Wish u d best sarah xxxx (btw my names Gabriella  = ] )

thanks Gabriella :). i hope things r goin ok 4 u atm. im really havn a hard time and i wish i could just gte focused. xxxx

its so hard 2 focus sumtimes though! wish u all d best sarah xxx n e thing else u wanna tlk 2 me about feel free (not dat im an expert or n e thing lol) things r kk atm have my ups n downs howz bout u? xx

things are quite bad atm but im just tryn 2 hang in thre. the worse problems atm is how much i h8 da wa i look and its getn me dwn sooooo much xxxx

aww bbz i still h8 d way i luk but i avoid lukin @ my actual body in the mirror 2 much. I luk @ my face n although dat isnt 2 great i just have like pampering days where i use face masks n paint toe nails n stuff n have relaxin baths n it always makes my feel tonnes beta. Its quite a short term solution. I alsoTRY to focus on the positives which arent meni but just keep them going ova n ova in my head which sumtimes works. Hope things work out 4 u asap! Stay strong xxx

thanks miss g il try the positive thing. i find it hard 2 c gd things and wen ppl compliment me i ant takeit i just want 2 say stop lien. mayb i should try n just say thanks and accept it and mayb b happy bout it xxxx

i find it reli hard 2 accept compliments but ive started 2 notice wen i do do well n congratulate myself in my head. i found it is possible 2 b happy with ur achievments n not feel like ur just up urself or n e thing like dat!

luv ya bbz xx

I agree they need to just leave celebrities to get on with their own lives and stop splashing them on pages of magazines because all thats doing is making things harder for other people with ED's and most probably the celeb that theyre writing about ..

I no n it probably causes sum ppl 2 get EDs!