Random observations from a skinny chick...

I am really sick of looking at those stupid Myspace and Facebook ads that show a bare midriff, and then a thinner bare midriff, and proclaim "this is how I lost 40 lbs!" Now... this could be an observation from the outside-looking-in kind of mentality, but... what was wrong with the first picture? Why is a girl only "pretty" if her ribs are showing? I know I have a serious vendetta against this kind of stuff - partially because of the abnormally high number of times I've been accused of being anorexic or bulimic. To be perfectly honest, my eating habits aren't the best - but why must everyone assume that somebody skinny must have done something psychotic to get that way?

Secondly, to those ads that claim "I lost 37 lbs in just one month," I say, "what the heck?!" Do you realize that the average month only has 30 days? That means you'd be losing more than one pound every day. Do you have any idea how disgusting that is? Even me, and my ever-losing struggle to keep on weight, I don't lose it that fast. And if you had a lot to lose - you wouldn't want to either. People who lose weight too fast, their skin starts to sag, because it can't regain its elasticity fast enough to keep up with how fast that person is losing weight. Saggy skin - a definite fashion no-no.

Furthermore, as far as my perspective goes, I'd rather be healthy than skinny. I don't like being as thin as I am. If I sit in a chair with a hard back, my spine stabs me. Anybody who would WANT to be like this needs his/her head examined. Seriously. You know, if a fat person and a skinny person get lost in the desert somewhere with no food for weeks and weeks, guess who's going to survive? Twiggy's dead in five days, bet you anything. Not that this has a lot to do with anything. I'm just spewing random anger at the weight loss industry.

Obviously, some people maybe really do need to lose weight, for health reasons. But what the crap good is skinny as a cosmetic? People need to grow up and realize that there are other kinds of beautiful than what stupid Myspace and Facebook ads tell them.