Why Women Aspire to Be Super Skinny

Women have always wanted to be skinny, pretty much from the beginning of time. Of course it would be easy enough to blame the media for smearing their pages with super skinny models, but the fact is even if you took all that away, women would still be trying to slim down. Many people have developed serious medical conditions by trying to starve themselves down to a smaller size. Others try to over exercise, under eat, and then they end up wondering why they are not healthier for slimming down. Yes, in this country we have a serious problem with obesity, but that darker side to weight loss is always there.

Now many women use the excuse that men are to blame for this thin epidemic. As much as I love playing the blame game, we sometimes forget that we make our own health decisions. When people do this they will point out those men, want their women to look like those models in the magazines. In recent surveys, we have now learned that men would actually like their women to be a healthier weight, then to thin. Think about it when was the last time you saw a man looking at another man's body and saying wow, you look thin today! That is because men and women are different when they come to look at themselves in the mirror. As a woman, I know that we compare ourselves to other women as if it is a contest. We are not trying to do this for men we are doing this to beat other women.

This is where the skinny factor comes in to play; we want to be the best we can be. It does not matter who is what size on a runway in France what matters is if we look better then the other women around us. We cannot put full blame on the media or on the members of the opposite sex any longer, we need to take responsibility for our own weight. If a man cannot accept you at a healthy weight then he is not even worth your time. Yes people are vain, but we do this to ourselves it does not matter if we want to or not.

So I urge you to stop trying to be the next sob story on television and take care of yourself. True change only comes when people are willing to change themselves.