I'm a "healthy weight" but I know I don't look it

[atikin]

People come up in magazines - celebrities, for example - who are a healthy weight and have proved it, but who are getting a lot of press for being "Too skinny" / "skeletal" etc. A glamour model and TV personality in England is a proven 8 stone 2 ("healthy weight") but there are "SHOCKING PICTURES" of her in tonnes of magazines and people telling her how thin she is all the time. I am 5 ft 6 and an average of 8 stone 5. I have quite big protruding collarbones and hip bones and my arms and legs are quite skinny - In clothes which hide other parts which aren't so small, such as my thighs, I look horribly gaunt. I'll look in the mirror, say to myself 'put weight on' and do it..then lose it all over again after, This has been going on for about half a year now and I know people are always looking at me thinking how much weight I have lost. I feel like I'm a bit addicted. But at a 'healthy weight' surely it's not worth seeing a physciatrist/therapist etc. My relationship with food is just not right :( I don't want attention! I just want to look in the mirror and see what everyone else sees, something I see very rarely clearly .. I just want to look healthy.

[Rach878]

Hi, so are you anorexic or bulimic, or do you just loose weight as soon as you put it on. If you do have either anorexia or bulimia and are at a healthy or unhealthy weight maybe it is worth seeing a phyciatrist/theripist. As far as looking healthy you could try a nutrionist. I'm at a healthy weight also, but i do have bulimerexia, and see a theripist. So i encourage you to do so also.