When did the world come to this...

When was it decided that women had to be thin? Why? Where did the corner turn form likeing full figuredesque women? When did the programming for women change that they had to be the pleasure-able figure for men, why do we put ourselves through these things. I have a couple of good friends that are just as frustrated as I am with their appearance, I happened to think why do we have to change our appearance in order to look more astetically pleasing, isn't there more important things that we could be focusing our time on. Sure I would like to loose weight but it's more because I hate the fact that I get winded so easliy and I know that if I continue with the weight that I am I will succumb to health problems later in life, such as diabetes that runs in my families, both sides. I am trying to make the effort to change my lifestyle now before I have to train another human being what is right.

I see these programs coming up about "Honey, We are killing the kids" on TLC and it concerns me that we have to create programs such as this to teach and alert families of this unhealthy eating to families. It makes me wonder where the chain got started, the parents learned from their parents or they are just working too hard to make ends meet that they have little time to put into teaching healthy eating habits, and due to time contrants parents pick up dinner from some fast food restaurant or order in or just throw a TV dinner in the microwave to feed the kids quick. I know that it is because of the need to have more money to make ends meet, back in the day of our grandparents raising our parents moms stayed home to raise the kids because they were taught it wasn't right for the woman to be out in the workforce. So they had time to make meals and I grew up in the midwest were everyone had a garden to supplement what they couldn't afford to buy at the store.

Back to the women's view of needing to look thin and perfect, I know it comes from seeing these waif thin women in the magazines, I watch "America's Next Top Model" occasionally and my favorites have been women with a little meat on their bones, these women that don't have any curves or you can see their collar bone so do not appeal to me. Britney Spears, Miranda Lambert and Gretchen Wilson, are all women that appeal for me to acheive their bodies, they aren't waif thin but they have toned what they have so that it isn't flabby and they are happy with it, they eat what they want but then work it off so that it doesn't get to be out of hand...
I don't know where this all stared but I wish there was a way to stop this I hate to imagine my little niece having to struggle with her body image...I want to teach her to love herself and what she looks like no matter what.