A friend sent me a blog link back in September 2010 and told me to take a look that she was disheartened. It was a then 17 year old girl desperately trying to get thin. Now I don’t mean she is obese or overweight to begin with and wanting to lose weight, I mean she wanted to get thin, thin. She was hoping for at least a size 1 if not smaller. Her blog was plastered with what she called motivational pictures of girls with their bones sticking through their bodies. She wrote hate posts to herself almost daily for eating. She would go days with just drinking black coffee and a few bites of Life cereal. She constantly wrote how much better life would be if she could just be her version of thin. She truly and honestly believed that her life would be better. In January she met her goal, I’m pretty sure her body is the size of my leg…in fact, my leg might be bigger. Was she happy? No, in fact she is severely depressed. Because low and behold her life is not any better than it was … [Read more...]