Thursday in class we talked about dieting in the family and the impact that it has on children. Over the weekend my family came down to visit me. I have a lot of pictures in my dorm room, some of then quite old, and others relatively recent. When I was a young high schooler I was about 10-15 pounds lighter than I am now. I remember when I slowly started to put on the weight, my mom never said that I was getting fat or needed to lose weight. She always told me to stay healthy. I can say that I am comfortable in my skin. I am by no means overweight, but I'm no toothpick either. I have two younger sisters and we all have different body types. I'm pretty average. One is really curvy. And the youngest hasn't got a curve on her and she's toothpick thin.
I never realized it til now, but my family has never dieted. Being thin does not mean being healthy. As a young girl, I'm glad that my mom and dad didn't put further pressure on me to look like the girls in the ads we looked at in class. This is important for anyone, especially today where anywhere you look is an advertisement trying to sell you something and putting twisted idea's into young minds.
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