by Tori Hall

Created on: April 17, 2008

It really is true. It's not very easy at all being skinny. I love that I am skinny but it can be hard to find clothes that fit right. I believe that it's good to eat right and exercise on a regular basis. I do eat healthy but I would be a hypocrite if I said that I exercise enough because in all actuality I only exercise when I'm playing sports.

I get so sick of people saying that I'm anorexic or bulimic, being that I'm a size 00. Even then my clothes can be baggy depending on where I bought them. My friends know that I don't have an eating disorder because I love food and can't live without it, and there's no possible way I'm bulimic because I think that if I throw up that I'm going to die or something. It's kind of weird. I've seen pictures of girls who have eating disorders and I never want to get like that.

There definitely is a good and bad type of skinny. The good kind is when you eat right, exercise and just take all around good care of yourself. The bad kind is when you are doing drugs, not eating anything, eating then purging, and then just not eating the right things at all. I have a high metabolism so that helps with not gaining weight.

I have been very happy with my figure and I am blessed that I have a healthy body. But lately I have been trying to gain weight. It hasn't really been working since I haven't gained weight in a long time. I have come to just get used to it so it doesn't bother me as much as it did at first. Especially since there are people that I can joke around with about it. Like I have a couple of friends at school that have little nicknames for me. My friend Erron calls me his toothpick and some people call me chicken legs because I have super skinny legs. My mom used to call me that too when I was little. That was her nickname for me. But now she says she would give anything to have my figure.

I don't want to change my body image and I don't believe that the way I look is bad or anything. I just think that if I gained a little more weight that people would stop saying I'm too thin. It definitely is not so easy being skinny!

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