Stereotypes of "health-conscious" women.

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Anorexia has the highest death rate of any mental illness.

Wanting to be slim and becoming obsessed with physical appearance is a SYMPTOM of anorexia nervosa. Not the other way around. It hardly has anything to do with wanting to be slim, it's just the most obvious symptom. A large number of anorexics don't die because they want to be perfect, they die because they have a mental illness.

Increasing numbers of men are seeking treatment for anorexia nervosa. It's very difficult for men to step forward and talk about it when it's considered a female problem.

As for exercise etc. and fitness, it doesn't give me an hourglass figure or make my boobs expand, it does the opposite. I don't care though. I've put on some weight recently and been complimented on both my boobs and my ass, which seems so strange to me. I've been able to start exercising again now that I'm physically recovered from injuries but not too hard obviously. Now people are already saying I shouldn't, so that I'll stay this shape/size.

It makes me want to vomit to have people tell me what they think my body should look like. I don't even think that way about other people. I honestly am starting to feel hostile when men ask why I'm "so concerned" with my appearance and then proceed to express their concern with how pleased they are with my appearance.

As if that's why I exercise, or why I don't eat sweets.

I actually have a female high school friend who lifts heavy barbells for fun. She and another female represented the weight-lifting club in university.

I find it funny, Am not a big lad I only weight 10st. I love going to my gym for it's always busy yet am the only one who uses the Squat rack, There's me Squating/Over head pressing at my lesure between my sets I look about and there's a personal trainer teaching a bunch of over weight older women, Kudos to them for wanting to get fit.

But the trainer makes them do stuff with 2kg-5 kg weights. Every. single.day. No weight change the exericises is things like, holding your arms out to the side with the weights and raising yourself with your toes ect, Medicine ball mumbo jumbo and leg raises. . . It's like. . . she is picking the slowest and most comfortable way for the women to get results so they can get more money from lessons.

Then you have the male personal trainers, There's a lad one of the customers he is paying for these lessons every weekday. I was talking to him he has been doing the lessons for a year now, Twice my build(but different body type so I was always going to be smaller and more lean.)). I've been lifting for about. . . 5 months now, to his year of personal bodybuilding training. Am lifting the same weights as him.

It's not just ladys who're getting their heads filled with crap and f*****g about at the gym, Sadly the "Pump" will make any one bite their shite thinking it's a result.

As for reasons into getting into fitness. Eh, The Majority of people are doing it for the looks, Women it's the hourglass men it's the Gorilla chest and arms.