[sarahthegemini]

(Original post by SophiaKeuning)
Yeah. Kinda makes me feel like the villain. And bigger people the down to earth long suffering hero. Sick of being told I'm not a real woman.

I don't really see how the media suggesting women with big boobs/tiny waist/big arse are better role models. I mean, good role models because women are supposed to have big assets for men to gawp at? Because having big boobs is essential to femininity and success? Hm. I feel like we are regressing.

That winds me up a treat! How does having an ample sized chest and bigger hips make someone a better role model? It's not like it's something we can all strive to be, it's not down to just putting on a bit of weight is it? And then calling Adele a role model because she's overweight? Yet if someone were to say a skinny girl (not even an underweight girl, just someone that was skinny) was a role model there would be absolute uproar and you can guarantee they'd be told that they've been brainwashed by the media

[Clare~Bear]

Curvy doesn't mean obese and unhealthy.

You can be slim OR a bit curvy and still be a healthy weight and have no health problems.

If being fat wasn't such a problem then the government and various health groups wouldn't be trying to help all the fat people get to a healthy weight.

Fat people don't attack naturally thin people. They point out that SOME thin people are anorexic and just as unhealthy as they are.

[diving_queen]

(Original post by Astinof)
How would you know, you're a girl. Just because you're too ugly to get a boyfriend who isn't some nerd like you.

Aha and it continues!

Have you ever seen me? So how can you make a judgement on my appearance?
Do you know my relationship status? Or even sexual preference?
Define the word 'nerd'. Then remember you've never met me so cannot in any way shape or form apply it to me.

And keep on being incredibly obtuse. Because it amuses me.

[Astinof]

(Original post by diving_queen)
Aha and it continues!

Have you ever seen me? So how can you make a judgement on my appearance?
Do you know my relationship status? Or even sexual preference?
Define the word 'nerd'. Then remember you've never met me so cannot in any way shape or form apply it to me.

And keep on being incredibly obtuse. Because it amuses me.

You're obviously a nerd or you wouldn't be on TSR LOL! You can't get a boyfriend who isn't some nerd so you're angry at me for saying skinny chicks can't get good looking guys.

[diving_queen]

(Original post by Astinof)
You're obviously a nerd or you wouldn't be on TSR LOL! You can't get a boyfriend who isn't some nerd so you're angry at me for saying skinny chicks can't get good looking guys.

Which by default...makes you a nerd. Therefore the obvious negative connotations you associate with it makes your argument obsolete.

And again, Why do you keep assuming I am single! Haha.

[PippaLowthorpe]

(Original post by JordanR)
Except both of you can help your weights with correct diet and exercise...

I actually eat a balanced diet and exercise regularly. As does she. It's hardly my fault I stay thin whilst she's a little on the heavier side.

[JordanR]

(Original post by PippaLowthorpe)
I actually eat a balanced diet and exercise regularly. As does she. It's hardly my fault I stay thin whilst she's a little on the heavier side.

If you're unhealthy and your current diets aren't working to keep you at a healthy weight, then yes, it is your fault. You live in a first world country with an almost unlimited supply of food. Like I said: some people do have faster metabolisms and are more able to burn calories than others. I'm one of them. I'm also very skinny but have been putting on weight as of late.

And I guarantee you don't eat as much as you think you do. Try counting your calories.

I actually should've said. You can eat 2 hours worth of exercise in 10 minutes. Losing weight/staying at a healthy weight is about 95% diet.

[SnoochToTheBooch]

(Original post by Darklady.)
and the ... wait for it... the most cliche jelous statement ever... "Guys don't like women with figures of a small boy, they like real curves."

I'm all for not making people feel bad about whatever % of body fat they have, but with regards to that comment I'd say it's got some truth to it, it's not necessarily about jealousy.

[LavenderBlueSky88]

(Original post by SnoochToTheBooch)
I'm all for not making people feel bad about whatever % of body fat they have, but with regards to that comment I'd say it's got some truth to it, it's not necessarily about jealousy.

But when said by a woman with a spare tyre and sagging breasts, it usually is

[SnoochToTheBooch]

(Original post by LavenderBlueSky88)
But when said by a woman with a spare tyre and sagging breasts, it usually is

lol true but I think the typical british woman's idea of what's curvy vs. what's just fat and unpleasant is different from the typical man's.

[PippaLowthorpe]

(Original post by JordanR)
If you're unhealthy and your current diets aren't working to keep you at a healthy weight, then yes, it is your fault. You live in a first world country with an almost unlimited supply of food. Like I said: some people do have faster metabolisms and are more able to burn calories than others. I'm one of them. I'm also very skinny but have been putting on weight as of late.

And I guarantee you don't eat as much as you think you do. Try counting your calories.

I actually should've said. You can eat 2 hours worth of exercise in 10 minutes. Losing weight/staying at a healthy weight is about 95% diet.

I eat around 1500 calories a day, and she eats around 1200.
I have been putting on weight, yet my friends still call me 'skinny' and 'thin.'
I cannot help how much I weigh, even when I try to eat more, I still weigh the same.
I can't help being thin, not more than she can help being a little on the heavier side.

[JordanR]

(Original post by PippaLowthorpe)
I eat around 1500 calories a day, and she eats around 1200.
I have been putting on weight, yet my friends still call me 'skinny' and 'thin.'
I cannot help how much I weigh, even when I try to eat more, I still weigh the same.
I can't help being thin, not more than she can help being a little on the heavier side.

Neither of you are eating anywhere near enough and I don't believe her caloric intake whatsoever.

Contradicted yourself. I don't know what to believe. You're putting weight on but you still weigh the same.

You can help being thin and she can help being on the heavier side. Stop deluding yourself. You're eating 500 under the recommended calorie intake for someone who's practically sedentary; since you exercise, you should eat more than that. 1500 calories is a good intake for someone who's dieting/cutting, not for a sustainable regular intake.

[LavenderBlueSky88]

(Original post by SnoochToTheBooch)
lol true but I think the typical british woman's idea of what's curvy vs. what's just fat and unpleasant is different from the typical man's.

All the same, it's not nice for people to make comments on any aspects of a woman's body that she has no control over. Or to assume men only like one particular body type (which very few females in real life actually posses)

[PippaLowthorpe]

(Original post by JordanR)
Neither of you are eating anywhere near enough and I don't believe her caloric intake whatsoever.

Contradicted yourself. I don't know what to believe. You're putting weight on but you still weigh the same.

You can help being thin and she can help being on the heavier side. Stop deluding yourself. You're eating 500 under the recommended calorie intake for someone who's practically sedentary; since you exercise, you should eat more than that. 1500 calories is a good intake for someone who's dieting/cutting, not for a sustainable regular intake.

I put weight on and then it goes. I fluctuate.
She does eat that much, she writes it down.

I cannot help it. I often eat more, and I often eat less, yet if I eat around 2300 calories a day (I tried it in an attempt to put on weight) I feel tired constantly and I'm sick. I can honestly eat around 1500 calories before I start to feel like this.

[JordanR]

(Original post by PippaLowthorpe)
I put weight on and then it goes. I fluctuate.
She does eat that much, she writes it down.

I cannot help it. I often eat more, and I often eat less, yet if I eat around 2300 calories a day (I tried it in an attempt to put on weight) I feel tired constantly and I'm sick. I can honestly eat around 1500 calories before I start to feel like this.

Of course weight fluctuates -- mine fluctuates by up to as much as 5 lbs depending on how much water weight and stuff I'm carrying. Impossible. No one's BMR could be that low if they were on the heavier side.

Go to your doctor if you feel like that when you're eating more calories. It's not natural or healthy. You should have MORE energy (assuming you're eating the right foods).

[PippaLowthorpe]

(Original post by JordanR)
Of course weight fluctuates -- mine fluctuates by up to as much as 5 lbs depending on how much water weight and stuff I'm carrying. Impossible. No one's BMR could be that low if they were on the heavier side.

Go to your doctor if you feel like that when you're eating more calories. It's not natural or healthy. You should have MORE energy (assuming you're eating the right foods).

She does eat that much. It's true.
And no. I'm happy eating 1500, and I can't help that I have a fast metabolism.

[Puny Earthling]

I'm really puny and I get A LOT of hatred, but that's just from myself.

[JordanR]

(Original post by PippaLowthorpe)
She does eat that much. It's true.
And no. I'm happy eating 1500, and I can't help that I have a fast metabolism.

You can't say you've got a fast metabolism if you're undereating by about 500 calories every day. You just can't. If you were eating 5000 calories and stayed underweight then yes.

[redferry]

I'd just like to say there's a difference between naturally skinny and naturally thin though (both, by the way, are perfectly fine sizes to be!). I'm naturally thin, I'm 5ft 8 and 10stone, size 10 in clothes and I have curves. It's not really an issue except when it comes to mealtimes. I'm forever getting girls, and guys, taking the piss about how much I eat.

I mean, I eat what I like, it tastes good and I love food. Yet I get people going 'are you SERIOUSLY going to eat all that?!' and saying things like, when I order pudding 'oooh i couldn't its too many calories' just as I start eating it. It makes me feel really guilty about what I eat This got to the point where I started dieting and going to the gym and suddenly lost half a stone in around a week, and I was embarrassed about eating out with friends for a while.

[redferry]

(Original post by PippaLowthorpe)
She does eat that much. It's true.
And no. I'm happy eating 1500, and I can't help that I have a fast metabolism.

That's not a fast metabolism, that is just under-eating

I regularly eat (and drink) around 2500 calories a day and do no exercise without gaining weight - that's a fast metabolism.