Why is it that some skinny people want to be bigger and the bigger people want to be smaller?

[Anonymous]

Why is it that some skinny people want to be bigger and the bigger people want to be smaller? What makes us function like that?

[Darkfairie17]

It's the whole "The Grass is always greener on the other side mentality". People who are fat (Like me) Think all their problems in life will be solved if they lose the weight. They can finally have that awesome life that they want to have. That they will be accepted more by other people, and that they will have a better life. But the thing is, you should live your life regardless. I used to be like that, hiding away until I lost that 10, 20 and then 40lbs that I still have to loose. But I realized I was waiting my life away. Sure it would be nice to be skinny, but honestly I am alive now so why not take that opportunity to make the best of the time I have.

It's the same with skinny people. I know some of my skinny friends feel they are too skinny and want to gain weight. Maybe it's because they want bigger boobs, a bigger butt, or maybe some more curvaceousness. But regardless I think they look great. Besides, everyone gains weight differently, so I might get bigger boobs, but they may not. It's all in how they gain the weight.

I have always been that girl with the bigger boobs, bigger butt, etc... And I can tell you that there are good sides to every body type. If I was thin I could wear whatever I wanted, and I might have an easier time getting a date. But hey, I am who I am. I was born with this body and I have to live with it. So why not make the best with what I have. I have a boyfriend who loves me dearly, so I have nothing to complain about. Sure I may not get hit on at the bar, and I may even get ridiculed walking home with groceries, but that is those people's problems. Not mine :P No shame in walking home with a buggy full of produce. At least not in my mind.

[Hidden_P]

I think the media puts all these perfect women in front of us. Or that we're with our friends, we wish we looked like them.

As a bigger person, I stare in the mirror and wish away all sorts of things. I idealise myself against my smaller friends, or against women like Eva Longoria. My mother is very very slender (US size 2 naturally) whereas I am US size 14.

But, my slimmer friends say they hate it because they feel their bones when their getting dressed, or being intimate if they're lover squeezes them or something, it hurts. They wish for more boobs normally!

To be fair to the media, it's not just them. You go to the doctors and they tell you you are unhealthily big/small. They make television programmes based around body weight and the bad things related to it. We have body image and sex pressed on us all the time, we naturally start obsessing about it as well.

[dvd89]

I appear thin...but am rather "big"...I need weight in the correct way (muscles)...not fat...

[irykiryk]

There's a universal medium that all people want to be. God forbid they not be normal.

[queenofpeen]

Everyone is striving for "perfect," and nobody ever thinks they're "perfect" because we obsess over the tiniest flaws. Bigger girls focus on all the comments they hear about skinny being hot, and skinny girls focus on the bullsh*t like, "real women have curves" or "you look anorexic" or "curvy girls are hotter." Instead of embracing how we naturally are, we want to change it.

I personally enjoy being bigger than what society considers is "ideal." I'm losing weight for my health, but once I lose about 20-30 pounds, I'm done. Being skinny is just not for me. I'd hate to live in a country where everyone had the same body type.

[SweetFace28]

I'm small & occasionally wonder what I'd be like with more curves. But, I'm happy with myself, but think what if I were curvier sometimes.

[cavmanier]

You pretty much have an ideal body, I'm sure you've heard that once or twice before. You don't need more curves. Not to be a perve 3:)

[SweetFace28]

Thanks. ;-)

[Red_Raconteur]

I don't know, but you've described me pretty well. I wish I had more curves.

[dvd89]

You should watch the movie "Real women have curves"...I shelved it today...at my job..

[queenofpeen]

Real women come in all shapes and sizes.

[Anonymous]

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

[Anonymous]

Idk has something to do with human nature as humans we are never satified with what we got.

[luiyuichifi2]

i want to be a convertible

[SayHelloToMyAfro]

We like to be average.