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Tuesday 6 March 2012

Are u pro-ana?

so I am watching Dr.oz today and his show is about people who are anorexic. I am sure that most people know at least the baisics of this eating disorder and its where you see yourself as fat all the time so you stop eating and exercise a lot to lose weight. I am no expert here and this is about as much as I know myself and that it kills you and that you look terrible, I am not trying to offend anybody but you look really sick when you are anorexic. Anyway I only just heard about it today but there is a whole movement on Pro-ana and this is websites that show and tell you how to be anorexic!

I am upset about this and here is why..I have a daughter and at the moment she is the most perfect baby in the world to me but what happens when she get older, a teen surfin the net and accidentally finds one of these pro-ana sites, there are pics on here of normal looking girls and saying that they are to fat! that being a healthy weight is still not perfect enough...I was called fat my entire school years and I was not then but everytime I looked in the mirror I saw fat..everywhere and now I AM FAT but I am trying to loose weight in a very healthy way so that I can be healthy for my children.

There are pictures of girls with tape or cloths across their mouths saying 'don't eat' and baisicly against eating. I understand the need and want to be thin, skinny, or at least smaller then what I am but to be sick with an eating disorder, why in the world would someone want to die and if you go through with it you are going to die in a very painful way...I have not see anything or anyone anywhere say or write that being anorexic was fun and that they were living the life they always wanted...everything I read or watch say that they are hurting and tired and scared that they are going to die.

I do not want my daughter to think this is beautiful for that matter I do not want my son to tell a girl that she is more beautiful if she is skinny I hope to teach my son that girls/women  are beautiful no matter what the size..there is just not enough I can say on this to make people realize how against this I am, I feel so sad for anybody who suffers with this eating disorder but I am not sure if I feel sad for those who are running these pro-ana sites.

There is just not much else that I can say, I hope that whoever reads this understands where I am coming from and that if you do feel like you may have an eating disorder you need support to stop it not support to keep going because no body deserves to feel terrible about themselves and nobody should feel that kind of pain.