To Be Thin In Japan

[KikiBunny23]

Yes it is trendy to be 'skinny' but has anyone realized this...
In society, more people are dying from trying to be skinny than being obese. I mean, being obese, sure you can suffer from a heart attack or something but if someone goes anorexic or bulimic just to be skinny, they're probably going to die from the lack of nutrients in their body. Unless they get help, then they are pretty much going to be hospitalized or something...
half of my family is obese and nothing has gone wrong but some of my friends family had been bulimic or anorexic and died

[EveV]

Sure stars are all skinny however I think that in the real world, including Japan. That small people aren't accepted.
The biggest trend nowadays is to look healthy.
If you're "too" skinny , you're a bag of bones.
If you're " too" fat, you're a tub of lard.
It's fucking stupid.

[MissMisa]

Originally Posted by EveV

Sure stars are all skinny however I think that in the real world, including Japan. That small people aren't accepted.
The biggest trend nowadays is to look healthy.
If you're "too" skinny , you're a bag of bones.
If you're " too" fat, you're a tub of lard.
It's fucking stupid.

It's true, people seriously find it hard to see past your exterior nowadays. Someone said I was getting fat the other day, and I was like WTF!? I can see myself in the mirror, and I know for a fact I'm not fat or anywhere near fat. But those kind of comments could really affect someone sensative. You can't seem to win though. If your slim then your aneroxic, and if your not really skinny then your fat, there seems to be no middle ground in the whole thing. I've been called fat and thin. I am what I am and I wish young girls could see past this whole thing, being either extreme is obviously unhealthy.

[Obscene]

Originally Posted by EveV

Sure stars are all skinny however I think that in the real world, including Japan. That small people aren't accepted.
The biggest trend nowadays is to look healthy.
If you're "too" skinny , you're a bag of bones.
If you're " too" fat, you're a tub of lard.
It's fucking stupid.

I completely, and totally, agree with this. Couldn't have said it better myself.

[hypekstatic]

Originally Posted by Gerard

I don't care if girls through food up or whatever after they ate... if it makes them look better then they should do it
but if it dosn't make them look better... well then.. Nevermind'

i know.. that's not what a doctor would say.. well im not a doctor.

Gerard,

YOUR A LITTLE BITCH.
and that comes from the heart =)


um so it's okay for girls to look thin and die while theyre at it?

anyway....
yes asians are naturally small in figure and they're thin from either
genetics or the food they eat.
but in japan there are fat girls, short girls, chubby girls, thin girls, fit girls,
just like anywhere else (oh boys too...) it's not a TREND, it's just preference.

[Murasaki]

I have a friend from Japan who came to my school for two weeks. She was [I'm just guessing] about 5ft 4 and weighed about 105lb. I, on the otherhand am 5ft 9 1/2 and weigh 158 lb. It shocked me how often she commented [in Japanese] on how in shape I am-AND yes, at times, she did see alittle envious of my height and curves-especially when I took her clothes shopping.
so I think the grass IS greener on the other side for just about everybody.
I have a feeling that most Japanese teenage girls envision American women as being tall, vuluptous, and beautiful [like Beyonce]-where as they themselves feel dwarfish and frail. Personally, the reason I have always wanted to be stick-thin is because it makes me feel young, like the little kid I used to be.

[Asakura]

Well, in alot of ways it depends on what you want from your body.

I'm 6'4" and 282 lbs. I'm not technially obese but my body fat is higher than it should be.

I'm a fighter so being big all around is both an advantage and disadvantage for me. I push my body to be both strong and fast. But I'm alwas stuggleing with my weight. A fact that makes fighting and living hard. It was alwas beaten in my head that being fat is bad and being anything else is better. So in alot of ways, I'm motivated to be heathy, not for the benefits to my lifespan, but for the help in Martial Arts and the cosmetic benefits.

[Murasaki]

wow-6'4, that's pretty tall!
You should cosplay-tall people are ideal for that

[TwistedWispersNeko]

I agree. Its like this everywhere. I went to school with some girls who, hell, they could get any guy they wanted, but then some one said they were fat, and now that we're out of school, I know that 1 out of the 4 of them, has died due to an eating disorder, another still has health issues with her bones being to frail, but all the remaining three of the 4 are all in therapy, cause of the eating disorders they had aquired just because they got called fat. I've also gone to school with some others, not just girls, but boys, who started over eating because of the peer pressure in school. The pressure to be thin is every where. I will say one thing though, I remember a few years back, that a Modeling agency over in I think either Spain or Italy, refused a bunch of girls, cause they were under their BMI Rate, and told them they had to be at their BMI rate or a little over to model for them. But that was a few years ago.

[AlwaysPEPSI]

I think there are so many ways to describe someone's weight and it's all subjective. Thin, frail, skinny, curvy, etc...

Someone's thin to me may be wayyy too thin. I see that a lot in America. I prefer curvy women, but of course it's hard to define what exactly "curvy" is. My girlfriend's BMI is higher than mine, but it doesn't bother me, I'm naturally thin because of my overworking metabolism.