Obsessed with Being Thin

What exactly changes in your life when you are a size 0 or even smaller? Do you get more friends, feel more loved or attain greater happiness? I’ve been wondering that after watching yet another celebrity, who seemed to have a gorgeous body, slim down to the point she is skeletal. The beautiful Katie Holmes has gone from sexy and stunning to looking anorexic. You have to wonder what she thinks this will get her. Wasn’t she enough as she was? Who is judging her? I don’t think it is Tom Cruise who fell in love and married her for being Katie.

I wonder the same thing with people who call me fixated on being a certain weight. Nearly everyone is obsessed with their weight and what the number is on the scale. Yet this number is for your eyes only. Almost no one knows what size clothes you wear or what the scale says when you get on it. The numbers you are focused on doesn’t mean anything to the people around you, unless you’ve made it a big deal. Instead they are more worried about their own numbers, and you probably have no idea what they are or what they “should” be for them.

Think about it. No one cares if your scale says 210, 175, 135 or 110 – or what ever magic number you are fixated on. They don’t care or know what size clothes you wear. They may be concerned if you are grossly overweight, but their concern is for your health not your size. Or they may be judging you for your size, but they would probably judge you anyway.

This week stop obsessing about your own weight and consider if you know or care what others around you weigh. Then ask yourself why you care so much about the numbers on your scale. If you are healthy, fit and feel good about yourself, what difference does it make what they are? It doesn’t.

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