Media, puberty.

Factors that influence your body image could be media, puberty or even culture and sports.

It usually promises unreasonably fast weight loss. It requires you to eliminate entire food groups or decrease your intake of a certain group. It claims you will lose fat but the only thing you are losing is water.

Diet that is popular only for a short time without being a standard dietary recommendation.

1. Eating disorder in which an irrational fear of weight gain leads people to starve themselves.

2. Eating disorder that involves cycles of overeating and purging or attempts to rid the body of food.

3. Eating disorder in which people overeat compulsively.

Three types of eating disorders:

1. Anorexia Nervosa

2. Bulimia Nervosa

3. Binge Eating disorder

Your perception affects the way you see yourself. If you see yourself as fat, you will try to lose weight quickly without realizing that it may be too much weight loss that the body can take. If you see as yourself thin, you will eat a lot of unhealthy food just to fit in the society’s perfection.

Your perception affects the way you see yourself.

Losing weight depends on a lot of factors. There is the body type, food intake, and activities you take part in. This is a get thin quick scheme that may only result in a temporary weight loss but it can’t be followed through.

It is a fad diet.

The models portray “perfection” as they see fit. They portray teens as having curvaceous body shapes even though some are still going through the changes in their body. Since teens think that is how a teen should look, they try to imitate what they see without thinking that the images might be edited.

The pictures in the magazine may exaggerate or underrate reality.

Selena is a 17-year old girl who often felt worried about her body weight and shape. She kept on comparing her body weight with the other girls she meets or sees. She began to diet at the age of 15. At 16, she chose to become a vegetarian. By the time she turned 17, her weight was reduced to 110 pounds.

Over time, Selena appeared very thin and weak. Her body weight was only 95 pounds. This is when her parents became very alarmed. They took her to see a doctor for evaluation. After the examination, she was diagnosed with anorexia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is a life-threatening eating disorder that causes a person to have an extremely low body weight due to his/her fear of gaining weight and having a distorted body image. This disorder has caused her physical, mental, and emotional well-being to become affected. She had a hard time functioning in her daily life, particularly in focusing on school and in dealing with people.