I have struggled with anorexia for 6 years....at 5'6" the lowest I was happened to be 87lbs....now I'm usually in the 90's. It's really the worst thing to have...you really have no life. You are happy when you feel slim, but then again your head is warped so you really can't ever feel thin enough. It's like the mirror becomes some crazy funhouse mirror and you can't see what others see. You feel sickly all the time too and your heart hurts...it's not fun. Being told your beautiful or should be a model is not worth the time obsessing over food and exercise, I never set out to be this way....it was more of a depression and wanting to dissapear turned obsession thing. i would rather be able to live each day to the full and an eating disorder keeps you caged from ever doing that because you are restricting what happy humans need, food. So to anyone who would ever want to starve themselves to any low low weight, you will end up miserable and alone by pushing away every concerned person in your life..or never having time for a life because you'd rather be exercising. In the past 6 years the only time my eating disorder left me and i even ate normal and stayed 98 which was weird was when i lived in Germany and got to walk everywhere and ride bikes and know I could indulge and still look great because i was so active just getting around in my day to day life.

A new site exclusively for size 0 women has just been launched! NaturallySize0.com caters to all of us who have a hard time finding clothing.

It is meant for "naturally" size 0 women. I've been size 0 all my life and am healthy, athletic and petite. Please understand we have problems fitting into clothing due to "vanity sizing". This is caused by designers shrinking the clothing sizes to make people feel they are a smaller size. Size 0 is actually not that small anymore.

I'm a 56 yr old mother of 4 and grandmother of 6.
I weigh nearly 15 stone and before babies used to be 9 1/4 stone. I would love to be smaller again, but starving myself does nothing. Exercise does nothing. I hate the floppy bits, but after having several operations to repair the ripped muscles and connective tissue and damage done from having very large babies (kind of like a hernia) I think I am destined to be big. I walk, I am active, but nothing works to lose the weight. My ops were not done to acheive a cosmetic result, just to repair damage, so I think this has contributed and exacerbated the problem.
This 'Super Skinny Me' was done with women who were not suffering any weight control problems so losing weight was a cinch. Apart from sewing my mouth up and literally starving myself, there is no way I can hope to get back to my former size.

Have you checked out the website, superskinnyme.com?
It has info about some of the stuff they did on the program.

I'm sure that as there are people who are naturally really thin, and they should be excluded as part of the body image problem causers. But, keep in mind that a lot of people who do starve/puke etc, claim to be naturally thin. If someone is naturally obese,do we say it's healthy? Does that make it better? Regardless of weather or not it's intentional, being too thin is just as bad for you as being too big. And no one likes to admit that they will actually walk away from this video considering a few of the ideas for weight loss, this IS the US weekly web site. Which I'm sure is quite popular among young blossoming anorexics starving to look like Keira Knightley. Perhaps the biggest problem is that all of us actually read this crap and got to websites like this.

sorry to be the bearer of bad news liz, but there are some people who really do have those genetics. i'm a size zero, naturally. i know no one seems to believe this but it's not something i'm proud of, it just is what it is. i don't do anything weird. i have no idea what those calorie charts even mean. so on the flip side, it really pisses me off when anyone says it's wrong or sick to be a size zero. it would be unhealthy for me to be anything else. this is the size i am with normal eating habits and normal activities. i'm thin yeah, but not freakishly thin. so anyway, just for everyone's information, it's how you're built. being a size zero doesn't automatically mean you have a problem or that you look too skinny. some celebrities are in fact NOT lying when they say they have good genes. although in my opinion, good genes isn't being a size zero. it's having boobs and a butt and still being fit. so fyi Kim Kardashian and co, you don't represent the "normal" girls, you represent the hot girls who were blessed with everything. THAT makes me mad too. Girls with curves who are all "i represent what's normal!" No you don't. We all wish we could be so lucky.

a size 0 is ok when your 4 feet 11 inches to 5'2

One of the things I like about this show, at least in theory since I haven't seen it yet, is that is totally blows through all that BULL that many of these female celebs throw out when asked about how they got down to their weight. How many of them talk about eating whatever they want and of how much they hate the gym? They also claim to have good genetics. This drives me crazy because I know, and you should too, that the only way to get down to nymphette size is through a lot of hard sacrificing. You either severely restrict your calories, exercise like a demon or you stick your finger down your throat. I cheered when after her last child Demi Moore told Oprah she did 2 hours of cardio everyday and ate a vegetarian diet.

US & UK sizes are not the same.

WANT TO KNOW HOW PHONY THE VOTING IS FOR REESE AND ANGELINA. THEY LET ME VOTE, OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR REESE. I CLICKED ON REESE FOR ABOUT A HALF AN HOUR! LOL! THEIR VOTING IS A SCAM!

WANT TO KNOW HOW PHONY THE VOTING IS FOR REESE AND ANGELINA. THEY LET ME VOTE, OVER AND OVER AGAIN FOR REESE. I CLICKED ON REESE FOR ABOUT A HALF AN HOUR! LOL! THEIR VOTING IS A SCAM!

At the end of ones life, in the throws of your ENTIRE life passing before you, is ANY of this really going to matter? Will you really, honestly be debating the fact that at some point in life you were a 0 vs. 00 or thinking thoughts of who you loved & who loved you back??? Come ON people, this is nonsense! Get a life! Seriously! Thoughts ARE things that become tangible. All things are created twice, and an eating disorder is a wildfire set to the mind, invasive, twisted and impossible standards of perfection all wrapped up in vanity cloaking insequirity.

Remember this:
PERFECTION IS BORING, go for that order of dessert when out to dinner with a loved one, without guilt and get busy living YOUR life!!!
Moderation in everything & you'll be fine!!!

RWoman:

I find it interesting that you use the words obesity and morbid obesity as synonyms. While I agree morbid obesity is definitely unhealthy, obesity is a relative term. One point over BMI can dub you obese, not taking into account muscle. I myself and technically considered obese, however I have low blood pressure, low cholesterol, no joint or tendon pain, no health risks at all. However, by your reasoning, I am unhealthy and cost (I am assuming) healthy people like you higher health care wages. What of those healthy people, who drink, smoke, do drugs, live unhealthy lifestyles... like these women in the video? Your logic is faulty and generalized. Perhaps people would not react negatively to what you have to say if you stayed on topic...Period. Get mad all you want, it's simply the truth.

10:01 and 9:51, clearly you both need to learn how to read and comprehend what you are reading. I didn't belittle anyone. I simply said being obese is not healthy and it does affect health insurance company rates. That was it. If you want to get pissy with someone do with the posters using words such as "heffers". I didn't call anyone a name or belittle. Oh, also, I certainly didn't say anyone over a size 2 was fat. I didn't even list any specific sizes one way or another nor did I glorify eating disorders, etc. Like I said before, 9:51, you are clearly someone who freaks out if anyone says the slightest thing about being large as being a negative thing. If you are obese, you are unhealthy. Period. Get mad all you want, it's simply the truth.

Something always bothers me. Media calles women who have normal BMIs, like Drew Barrymore, Scarlett Johansson, Kate Winslet, "curvy", fine, yes they've got nice curves but these women are slim. However, there is always a hidden message, the articles that mention them almost imply they are good looking "despite the fact that they are curvy".

The model, Gisele Bunchen, she is supposed to be an example of health and resistance to being skinny. Well, you know what if the information on her height and weight available on the internet is correct, she is slightly UNDERWEIGHT.

No wonder a lot of women who have healthy BMIs look at their pictures, scratch their heads and say "if she is curvy, then what am i, an elephant???"