Wed, May-02-12, 22:19
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Senior Member
Posts: 944
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Plan: atkins '72 -now ketogenic
Stats: 260/181.4/140
BF:
Progress: 65%
Location: Baltimore, MD, USA
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I feel like these are the people who are most affected by media. I can't complain about them not seeing my perspective if I refuse to see theirs. For them, from their perspective, they look at models and the difference between them and a model is 10 pounds. It's realistic, that model skinny look. To them, their weight range is THEIR 'normal', and they look at someone who has 100 lbs to lose, and they can't see that as 'normal', that's someone with an actual weight problem.
Now US, because of OUR experiences, we look at a model and we know instinctively that that image is total BS. They don't. There's only a ten pound difference between them and what is portrayed as beautiful. They buy into it, in their way, based on their experience of what is 'normal', and we buy into it in OUR way, based on our experience of what is 'normal'. Some of us, when we look at a naturally skinny person, if we were honest with ourselves, don't think of that person as 'normal'. 'Normal' supposedly is having to work and struggle to maintain a healthy weight. We're two different blind men touching the same elephant, and one of us is touching the trunk and insisting that elephants are long, skinny, and flexible, and one of us is touching the side and insisting that elephants are broad, hard, and pebbly.
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