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Originally posted by anti fishstick
i was put in an environment where most everyone was skinnier than me, with tiny waists, and not one person was ever as obese as you see people in the states.
with everyone my size and smaller (mostly smaller) and people commenting on how "fat" i was (even if they only meant it jokingly or in a non-threatening friendly way.. whatever that is), i started to feel a little bad about my self esteem. i'd look in the mirror and think i was chubby. it's also interesting to note that a lot of guys still noticed me there, but that wasn't important to me. it wasn't about male attention, it was about how my self-esteem changed based on how my environment, in turn changed.
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Hhmmm, I don't know what to think about this really...
Do you mean you felt bad about yourself because you felt fatter then the rest, or do you mean you felt bad about yourself because the people there were skinny _ perhaps due to under nutrition... ???
How can you worry about the way you look when you're in a country like the Philipinnes where there is still so much poverty!?
I don't know,
maybe I've misinterpreted your post... but when it would be me coming back from a visit to the Phillipines, I wouldn't really be thinking about the way I look or how much I weigh... more about the way I live, and the consequences thereof, or how lucky we all are that we have the luxury to worry about banalities such as weight or appearances....
(sorry if I sound preachy
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