[quote]BostonBarrister wrote:
Janoski wrote:
my bet is she has cancer. I dont think its possible to carry on a normal life while being so emaciated.
I don’t know. There’s a woman who works out at the Gold’s where I go, and I see her each weekend. All she does is cardio. I’ve seen her leave and come back and do more cardio.
She’s barely bigger than that. If I were an ambulance-chaser type, I’d be looking hitting up her family and working on a theory of why Gold’s should be financially responsible for her condition… Lucky for them I just do corporate.[/quote]
I agree that she probably does not have cancer. I knew a woman in the same condition when I was working as a personal trainer. She would be at the gym first thing in the morning even before anyone who worked there as a trainer got there. She would do cardio for over 2 hours everyday as if her life depended on it. I mean all out intensity poured from her to the point that it had to be insanity as her motivation.
People like that see “fat” when they look in the mirror. There are different degrees of OCD and eating disorders. I have no doubt we see several on this site regularly…they just don’t take it to this level.
I do some consultancy work with an anorexic support charity. It scares the shit out of me when I go over there and the are 12 girls of various ages that all look like that and think that they are fat.
That is gross (both pictures). God, Rotten.com can’t make me want to hurl as bad.
I wonder, doesn’t anyone tell them they look worse than liches (awright, skeletons )? Or would it be politically incorect?
I think most folks involved with BB see something they don’t like when they look in the mirror.
I see small. I see fat. I always see something that, no matter what I look like, needs to be worked on.
When does that become unheatlthy? Where is the line between this girl, and the quest for mass and lower BF% that fuels my trips to the gym and grocerie store?
[quote]rainjack wrote:
I think most folks involved with BB see something they don’t like when they look in the mirror.
I see small. I see fat. I always see something that, no matter what I look like, needs to be worked on.
When does that become unheatlthy? Where is the line between this girl, and the quest for mass and lower BF% that fuels my trips to the gym and grocerie store?
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According to the medical community, the moment it affects other aspects of your life in a negative way keeping you from being a balanced person. Most people who are truly serious about bodybuilding are the type who may easily fall into obssessive behavior. This is not a problem unless your life is falling apart as a result.
The same behavior is present in the student who works his ass off for all “A’s” in school or the employee who spends time beyond that expected in order to move up in a company. For some reason, bodybuilding is seen as something seperate…mostly because we WEAR our activities. Anyone can look at me and tell that I spend some time in the gym. You can’t look at the student and tell he obesseses about his grades.
It leads to people seeing bodybuilding as more negative while ignoring every other person on the planet with the same drive in other activities. I see things that need improvement when I look in the mirror the same as you do. It is why I keep shooting for a goal and where I get my motivation from. This would only be a problem if I looked in the mirror and actually thought I was small even though I am truly larger than average. I don’t doubt that there are bodybuilders out there like that, however…those who look in the mirror and, despite having 21" arms and thighs like tree trunks, still see themselves as small, weak and skinny.
Sadly, Hollywood is coming very close to pushing this type of body as ‘beauty’.
I recently saw a cover of People magazine featuring a now even thinner Jessica Simpson and the caption ‘How Can Nick Leave Her Now’. These messages tell young girls/women that if you’re just a little thinner, all your problems will be solved, and this cover is only one example.
In the future I suspect that you’ll see even more females looking like this.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
I don’t doubt that there are bodybuilders out there like that, however…those who look in the mirror and, despite having 21" arms and thighs like tree trunks, still see themselves as small, weak and skinny.[/quote]
I think if I had 21" arms - I’d be pretty freakin happy. Hell - I’d be damn near ecstatic if I could cross the 19 inch barrier.
[quote]Just_Wrong wrote:
Sadly, Hollywood is coming very close to pushing this type of body as ‘beauty’.
I recently saw a cover of People magazine featuring a now even thinner Jessica Simpson and the caption ‘How Can Nick Leave Her Now’. These messages tell young girls/women that if you’re just a little thinner, all your problems will be solved, and this cover is only one example.
In the future I suspect that you’ll see even more females looking like this.[/quote]
I stand corrected. It was Star magazine, not People.
[quote]rainjack wrote:
Professor X wrote:
I don’t doubt that there are bodybuilders out there like that, however…those who look in the mirror and, despite having 21" arms and thighs like tree trunks, still see themselves as small, weak and skinny.
I think if I had 21" arms - I’d be pretty freakin happy. Hell - I’d be damn near ecstatic if I could cross the 19 inch barrier. [/quote]
You have to gain more weight, man. I didn’t do that until I crossed 230lbs.
[quote]Just_Wrong wrote:
Sadly, Hollywood is coming very close to pushing this type of body as ‘beauty’.
I recently saw a cover of People magazine featuring a now even thinner Jessica Simpson and the caption ‘How Can Nick Leave Her Now’. These messages tell young girls/women that if you’re just a little thinner, all your problems will be solved, and this cover is only one example.
In the future I suspect that you’ll see even more females looking like this.[/quote]
I preferred Jess when she was a little plump my self. Those curves!
I think one day they’ll figure out that all the body image neuroses (? on the spelling) are all related in some way. Thinking you’re too fat or too thin, or not big enough, its all related back to some underlying cause.
I do recall from a psych class I took in college that one eating disorder clinic felt that all eating disorders in women were caused by past sexual abuse, usually repressed so the person didn’t remember it.
[quote]danreeves1973 wrote:
I think one day they’ll figure out that all the body image neuroses (? on the spelling) are all related in some way. Thinking you’re too fat or too thin, or not big enough, its all related back to some underlying cause.
I do recall from a psych class I took in college that one eating disorder clinic felt that all eating disorders in women were caused by past sexual abuse, usually repressed so the person didn’t remember it.[/quote]
seriously doubt it … i would say that i used to have some food issues, and i was never abused, although i used to kick it at the neverland ranch.
but seriously, i went to college too. fortunately, i don’t remember most of the shit they told me. remember, it’s a bunch of vroom’s running those institutions!
)? Or would it be politically incorect?