The Truth About Size Zero

[panther]

eh up is this the over 18 section

[chav1]

Originally Posted by panther

eh up is this the over 18 section

zero to 18 in no time at all lol

even vannessa feltz didnt put her weight back on this fast


yeah i know i spelt her name wrong but you know who i mean

[panther]

what you mean put back on?

[chav1]

Originally Posted by panther

what you mean put back on?

put the claws back lol

[steeljack]

Its a lousy night on TV, so I am probably going to get into bother with this ..........but why do women want to look like men ?
We have a shopping chain here in the US called the Gap , not sure how big they are in Europe but they are running a new springtime ad campain on TV here for womens khaki slacks (pants/trousers) and every models arse looks as big as a garbage can/dustbin, yet the ads for women wearing denim look fine.
I'm not a misogynist pig , but surely a woman wants to look her best at all times , if only for her own self esteem, so someone explain to me why do women allow their inate femininity to be controlled this way and end up looking like brickies on a building site,
ok I know and accept that that women are now in the mainstream workforce and lots of women are now doing jobs that were at one time deemed 'men only' so I accept that its impractical that a woman working, for example in an oil refinery or erecting scaffolding should be wearing a dress for work , but where practicalities like these dont come into it whats the problem with wearing female attire (a dress) , every time I turn the television on we have all these female role models for the modern woman, ( Cheri Blair/Laura Bush/ Hillary Clinton/Angela Merkal etc. )and they never appear to be wearing a dress but a tailored 'pant suit' and I'm sorry to say they look like a bunch of Dykes(Lesbians) .
I'm sorry ladies , I'm not out to offend anyone , but I just want the females of our species to look like females, maybe its a generation/age thing , or maybe its some Germaine Greer feminist plot to d/emasculate the male species.

[lettie]

Like Grego, I watched this programme whilst consuming a bag of crisps, 2oz of jelly babies and a glass of red wine... We all know how horrible some celebs look at size zero and to be honest at a size 12 it would probably take me years to get to that size, even if I wanted to.

The health effects for women, of any crash diet are astounding, lower oestrogen levels leading to infertility and osteoporosis, lethargy and depression, altered bowel habits, unhealthy looking skin and hair and much much more. It makes you wonder why celebs, or anyone would want to do it....

The sad thing is that if our world's celebrity women got it together and refused to conform to the size zero trend en masse..... The designers, model agencies, producers etc would have no choice but to make clothing for bigger women.

It's all well and good to blame a few gay designers and the movie and modelling industries but I think that there are more celebs, models and real women out there than there are designers.. Isn't it time that people got together and just stopped buying into this cr@p..

[garinda]

Originally Posted by lettie

It's all well and good to blame a few gay designers and the movie and modelling industries but I think that there are more celebs, models and real women out there than there are designers.. Isn't it time that people got together and just stopped buying into this cr@p..

Totally agree. No one forces women to conform to an idealised body type, or even follow fashion, they do it willingly, by buying the clothes, and the magazines.

Sadly, I think the same thing is happening to the younger generation of men too. This hair cut, that styling product, this many six packs, which apparently you now should have eight of visible.

[WillowTheWhisp]

I forgot all about this program and I'd wanted to watch it! I saw her being interviewed about it a few weeks ago.

I do wish people could differentiate between naturally slim healthy women and people who starve themselves close to death in order to look like skin on a stick.

Slim and healthy I would love to be but I cannot for the life of me understand why any woman would want to emulate these models. I did see a program a little while ago where medical experts were explaining the changes it cause to the woman's body and how the body is actually eating itself in order to remain alive.

I'm still struggling to lose weight so I suppose there's little chance of me ever getting to that stage but I understand that it does become an obsession with some people, something they have control over and feel they have achieved something.

[harwood red]

I watched it and thought it was very well done and louise did it in a sensitive way, although I think they could have filmed a few more of her mood swings she talked about!!

Also it was interesting that they brought up the issue of yo yo dieting and that she had to be careful how she put the weight back on as she could just pile on the fat and would lose her muscle tone...it actually took her two months of careful eating to put it back on the right way!

[accymel]

Originally Posted by slinky

Lmao... Take a leaf out of my book then....stuff ya face permanently, eat at wrong time of day, eat late at night, eat crap....but never put a ounce on. I swear one day I will wake up 32 stone. I feel lucky cos I don't have to go on stupid diets ( not that i'd stick to em) lol but life is cruel to me so I will end up 32 stone one day lol.

Same here, i put on 1kg in a year LOL as go for once a year health check i dont own any scales, funny i got 2kg worth of Belgian choccy & scoffed most of that at christmas so it wasn;t that hehehehehe, quite ironic when i was a teen i only haad to look at a choccy bar & it would balloon me. I think a lot maybe psychological then i wanted to be slim, then got to the slimness i wanted but stress in my life at the time i went slimmer not intentionally as my metabolic rate was up & struggled now i've spent a few years trying to put it back on & not easiliy either for trying LOL!!!

[Tinkerbelle]

LOL! I've told slinky just wait til she turns 30, then she'll know about it At 25 I felt jeans getting tight round the thigh and had to shoe horn my hips into my jeans. I'm just hoping that the extra tyres round my middle don't increase with every year older as they have been doing since turning 30

[accymel]

Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle

LOL! I've told slinky just wait til she turns 30, then she'll know about it At 25 I felt jeans getting tight round the thigh and had to shoe horn my hips into my jeans. I'm just hoping that the extra tyres round my middle don't increase with every year older as they have been doing since turning 30

Hehehehehehe definined by rings like tree trunks hehehehe

[panther]

dont they call that a muffin top?....lol

[Tinkerbelle]

Originally Posted by accymel

Hehehehehehe definined by rings like tree trunks hehehehe

Hope I don't live to a ripe old age then, I'll look like bloody michelin man!!!

[flashy]

tinks i remember you being a size zero at one time (6)