I was part of a thread on Google+ a few months back. Someone had posted pictures of 3 women. The first was actress skinny. The next was a normal not heavy, not skinny woman, and the third was a little on the plump side, maybe like Adele or a little thinner.
The question was asked, 'who is the most attractive?' I, as a woman, identified with the middle woman, but thought for sure every man would pick the actress skinny woman. To may shock and surprise, an overwhelming number of them chose the third model. The one *I* described as a bit plump.
It made me realize how, as women, our body images are really skewed. Now, I don't know what the OP looks like and I'm not saying that people who are seriously overweight don't know it, but since I saw that thread, I have more started to question how we, as women, view ourselves.
When my husband asked, 'Which one would you want to look like?" I, of course, said the pencil thin actress. After seeing all the responses, I have had to ask myself, "Why?" And just how skewed *is* our perception of ourselves?
Again, there's no doubt that people who are at an unhealthy weight, you want them to understand and lose weight, but by the same token, maybe we need to ask ourselves, "how does what I see in the mirror differ from what other people see when they look at me?"
Just one of those "hmmmm...." things.
C.