Body image.

How do you feel about body image in our culture? How has weight impacted your life or thinking? How important to you is size?

I think it depends on the place and people you are around In our school, I feel like body image isn't really an issue, everyone has their own style and rude comments tend to be ignored. In white bear, a lot is based on body image. Because a majority of the girls in white bear are tiny, almost toothpick thin and I'm about average I always thought that I was extremely overweight, so I had super low self esteem, and on top of that, my family has very intense views of "fat and skinny". Sorry, I don't know how else to put that. Recently though, I don't really know what happened, but I've started to ignore the family thing, and since I've switched schools, I haven't had a HUGE problem with it. I still concentrate on my weight more than I feel like I should, but it used to be the only thing that occupied my thoughts. So I suppose it doesn't impact my thinking much. Occasionally, when I feel like I've eaten too much, I think I should probably go on a diet, but as everyone probably knows, that never goes as well as planned.