After reading the article, “Myth Buster: The Truth About Eating Disorders” in Corsair.

Many girls in this world care about their body shapes and want to be slim. Actually, I want to be skinnier too. Also, after reading this article, I realized that I have eating disorder. I used to be really fat so I couldn’t even fit any girl’s pants two years ago. It was very stressful and I always felt shameful of my body. Therefore, I decided to lose weights and lost 40 pounds so far. Now, I can wear what I want to wear and no one calls me I am fat. However, I feel like I am still fat and need to lose weight. Also, because of the stress and pressure which is that I can’t eat high calories foods that I want to eat, sometimes I eat way too much. I thought this kind of stress would not go away since I was born as a girl, but the article says it is one of symptoms of eating disorders and can be recovered. I thought why many girls so care about their weights. I think it is because they want to be good looking rather than to be healthy. The societies who are living now are influenced a lot by lots of visual media such as TV shows, movies, magazines and ads on the street. And, the media affect people to seek visual beauties more than before. Many people do plastic surgeries and go to gym everyday to get better looking. So, I think eating disorders and caring about their weight too much are also one of the victims that are caused by media.