COMING TO TERMS WITH BODY IMAGE
Some of the teens still struggle with body image, but they seem to be able to keep things in perspective. Paula D., who weighs 30 pounds less and is two inches taller than when she was heaviest, says, “I realize that my body image issues are probably still with me, and perhaps I may never be able to lose enough weight to be one hundred percent satisfied.
But I don’t really know how much enough is. Instead, I try to base my satisfaction with my weight on whether I feel good. I want to be at a healthy weight - not anorexic, not overweight. And although I feel like I should probably lose five to ten more pounds, everyone else I know says I’m skinny. So I’ve learned to believe them over my own probably-biased view.” (She’s 57″ and weighs 140 pounds.)
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Many young people don’t feel good about their bodies, no matter what they weigh. One study by the University of Minnesota’s Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, Ph.D., R.D., and fellow researchers, involving more than 4,700 teens, found that close to half of the girls and about a quarter of the boys were not satisfied with their bodies. In addition, a high percentage of girls who were not overweight wanted to weigh less. The heavier the kids were, however, the more unhappy they were with their bodies. Although it’s generally believed that African Americans and His-panics are more accepting of fuller body types and more tolerant of being overweight than are European Americans, there’s evidence that kids of all races and ethnicities struggle with how they feel about their bodies.
Reflecting the views of many other young people who think they’re heavier than they really are, some of the teens’ feelings about their weight don’t match their actual weight category.
Robin S.’s comment at the outset of this post about accepting her curvy hips shows she understands that everyone has a unique body shape, no matter what his or her weight. Some people are shaped like a pear, with rounder hips and thighs. Others are shaped more like a square or an apple, having a propensity to be a bit thicker around the middle. Even after losing weight, people tend to have the same basic body shape, but on a smaller scale.
