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I think healthy is what's attractive. A little plump versus a little anorexic are pretty much the same in my view. Extremely skinny and fat are turnoffs because neither looks healthy.
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<p>I praise you for thinking that way. :)</p>
<p>a little anorexic is the same as a little plump...just one mental breakdown away from each other</p>
<p>i'm 5'2 and used to weigh 115 pounds...too fat to look good in a swimsuit, but normal enough to be considered "petite." now i'm still 5'2 and i dropped 10 lbs...and learned to dress my curves better. tanks and jeans dont suit you if you aren't bony and caucasian-body-type.</p>
<p>What do y'all consider anorexic and fat?</p>
<p>My friend is 5' 7" and ~110 lbs. She's skinny, but she's not ana. She eats a lot, and she plays basketball. Hence, she's got mostly muscle mass. It runs in hehr family to be super skinny too. That isn't ana. She's completely healthy. I think some people should stop stereotyping girls like her.</p>
<p>This other girl is 5'4" 125. Nobody thinks she's ana....but she is. Funny how stereotypes go.</p>
<p>...we consider girls anorexic if they don't eat...??</p>
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...we consider girls anorexic if they don't eat...??
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Or so the narrow-minded stereotype goes by that. But in reality, most anoretics DO eat--just very very little. Like some restrict down to 100 cals a day. Plus, you can still be overweight and suffer from an ED, but it's not considered anorexia until your BMI < 17.5. It would be considered EDNOS (Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified).</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> You're right. I just said that so that Aspen D can understand that skinny girls don't automatically equal anorexic in my mind.</p>
<p>me.duh, I noticed that you're a very open-minded person. I want to praise you for that. :)</p>
<p>Yeah, some people don't know and go around accusing every skinny girl of being anorexic/bulimic. It gets annoying sometimes.</p>
<p>The topic of this thread really shifted, obese or mildly corpulent turned into anorexia. I don't know about you guys, but I find it fascinating how it happens.</p>
<p>Yeah, it's strange. When someone's talking about one extreme another person tends to point out the opposite extreme.</p>
<p>Thank you, Psycho_Paroxysm. That makes me feel very good about myself.</p>
<p>And I guess it kind of makes sense how the transition happened. We're talking about attraction. And sometimes, anorexic girls just aren't appealing to men.</p>
<p>Aspen, I haven't met many non-anorexics who use the term "ana" or "mia." not accusing you or anything, just was a little surprised</p>
<p>i think media is a big problem. let's face it, most guys see themselves dating figures like alba, longoria (sp?), etc. it's the standard set by the media. we've lost the difference between normal and superstar.
but it's weird, 2/3 of the country is overweight...... i don't know if I'm making sense, my brain's a little cloudy today.</p>
<p>It depends on a great many factors mainly exactly how fat the girl is and how attractive she is otherwise (face, personality, other physical features) :P</p>
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it's not considered anorexia until your BMI < 17.5.
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<p>Um, my BMI is less than 17.5 and I'm definitely not anorexic..</p>
<p>I think men and women should have a congress and make a deal:</p>
<p>Men will find chubby-fat women attractive as soon as women fall for men under 5'5".</p>
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Um, my BMI is less than 17.5 and I'm definitely not anorexic..
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He means in addition to not taking in more than like 100 cals a day.</p>
<p>Yeah, you have to have a BMI of less than 17.5 AND exhibit anorexic behaviors, i.e. obsessive weighing/counting of food, intense fear of becoming fat, misperception of oneself, refuses to maintain healthy weight for height and age, etc etc.
100 cals is actually extremely low. Most anorexics restrict and take in more, i.e. 700 cals a day or so. But soon their metab. dies out and then they have to cut down more to lose, which is really bad because they become malnourished and there's a whole list of medical complications.</p>
<p>hmm, i'm so weird. i'm almost 5'5" and weigh about 95 lbs but i eat like 4000 calories a day (i exercise a lot). i'm asian and skinniness runs in my family (except my sister who unluckily got the "fat" gene). i dont seem to gain weight no matter how much i eat.</p>
<p>the thing is, diets are COMPLETELY wrong. ppl think that if you don't eat, you'll lose weight. in reality, if you don't eat and then eat a little bit, you won't lose weight just b/c your metabolism as slowed down so much. they don't seem to understand that if you want to lose weight, you eat healthy portions frequently. my friend & i analyzed the most effective way to lose weight (even though we're both trying to gain weight). we're such nerds.</p>
<p>I agree with x3rose. I'm not as extreme as her, but I'm 5'4 and 103 lbs. It doens't really matter what I eat, my weight fluctuates however it feels like.</p>
<p>im also quite sick of the implications that one is anorexic because they are thin... im 5'1, just under 90 pounds, and its difficult to deal with comments about your weight and your mental state when you eat normally and just tend to stay on the slender side.</p>
<p>it really is interesting how these topics tend to become discussions about eating disorders... a result of societal fixation on weight, dieting, and extreme thinness i suppose. and here i am feeding into it...</p>