so...underweight isnt underweight if its underweight because everyone else is fat...its normal

these are all photos of angelababy :3 i love angelababy! she is so pretty and makes a wonderful model! i wish i could kiss her...but anyway! moving on! haha! i hope i can be a model or look model-ish someday =) i got curious and checked her height and weight. i didnt have to bother checking her age, she was born 2 months and 8 days before me =) she's the only asian model i know of that is my age. she is chinese but lives in japan. anyway, she is 168cm/47kg (5ft 6in/103lbs). how annoying! she is 3 inches taller than me but weights 4lbs less?! uggg, if i didnt like her so much id be forced to dislike her for that fact but of course thats what she weighs, look where she lives. according to america's lowest height weight ratio, she is at least 15lbs underweight, but in japan she is average. its annoying how much it sucks to live in a country where the majority of people are obese/fat/overweight/chubby. i have every belief that it is probably because of that, that the charts ratio so high. i mean, what other reason is there? (its not just the models cuz thats a bad thing to go by if i did) but its the majority of the female population in japan. 85% of them are underweight by american standards. there are so many japan people who come to visit america and eat the normal amounts they always do, but gain weight. its because of these reasons:

1) we are a gluttonous country
2) we eat an excessive amount of red meats and starches
3) we cook in an excessive amount of oil, grease, salt and butter
4) we add sugar and sauces to everything without any consideration for health
5) our food industries seem to pack the calories into every food they sell/we eat as if they are trying to see who can jam more calories into the smallest amount of food

"People who live in Japan can expect to remain in good health longer than anybody else in the world, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO). WHO scientists have developed a new way of calculating the number of years that a person can be expected to live in full health. It is known as the DALE (Disability-Adjusted Life Years) system, and gives a truer picture of the health of a country than simply studying death rates. Using the system to rank the world's 191 countries has uncovered some surprise findings. In Japan the average healthy life expectancy is 74.5 years. Australia is second and France third on the list, but the US ranks only number 24. Dr Christopher Murray, director of WHO's Global Programme on Evidence for Health Policy, said: 'The position of the United States is one of the major surprises of the new rating system. Basically, you die earlier and spend more time disabled if you're an American rather than a member of most other advanced countries.' The reasons why the US rates so low may be partly due to the very poor standard of health. Rates of coronary heart disease are also high."

i looked at the chart of countries to find out how long americans stay healthy as apposed to japan; the average american is only healthy up to 70yrs of age while the average japanese person is healthy up to 74.5yrs of age. so it must not be THAT bad to remain 10-15lbs underweight if they all live healthier, longer than we do (well, provided they are not throwing up though) :P i mean, its not like they are, so called, underweight because they are anorexic, that isnt what i am saying. im just saying that: is how much i wanted to weigh (75-80lbs) and how healthily i wanted to eat, really all that bad if it is the average way a japan girl lives her life? maybe i am not really sick, maybe what i am is normal in another country. and look! that country lives longer than the so called "normal" eaters in america! looking at these facts, are you sure that the people around you on a daily basis dont just eat too much and too unhealthily? why do you think the rates of japanese anorexics are so low? because who they are is accepted and, in fact, sought out; they arent readily labeled "anorexic" for eating little, eating healthily and exercising daily. they are only labeled so when they show signs of truly being sick to where they cannot manage in life and arent eating enough to sustain life. i have always eaten enough to sustain my body but no more than i need (except for when i eat like an american -__-). seeing these facts, i dont think i am anorexic, i think i am normal. i have always leaned toward a japanese view and way of life even as a child since i grew up in a japanese home (my grandparents are from hiroshima). i was always the thinnest and tiniest out of my friends and in class and no one ever said "eat more" "your too thin" "you dont eat enough". i eat like a bird anyway, always have. and look at how i ate before i moved: 1/2c cereal or oatmeal if i even eat for breakfast --not a breakfast girl--, a sandwich for lunch and salad for dinner. or like when i first moved here: 1 or 2 slices of a self size pizza a day or 4 chicken nuggets (i was only eating lunch when i first got here. it was even less than normal because i was too shy to ask and it takes me months to just go in someone elses ice box and take what i want. and it takes me the the same amount of time to be ok with new people seeing me eat, or hearing me eat. im super self conscious of the squishing sounds food makes in your mouth when your chewing. even if only i can hear it i feel like its as loud as if im talking O.o), but no one thought it was unusual how little i ate until i started eating more (like as american O.o oh gosh i hate admitting that part). so i gess it was my fault for starting to eat more than i was used to, i dont know.

i am not as bad as other anorexics and ive always known that (because some days, even at my worst phase of ana, i could still eat chocolate and feel ok. or a hamburger. at times i felt like a fake anorexic.), so maybe the reason is, i am not anorexic, but a normal japanese girl living in america which makes me think i am anorexic. provided my purging is not a normalcy in japan...i dont think, so that part is a sickness. but i havent felt the urge to do that since my mia phase finally ended :D

i also looked up the adverage BMI of japan girls, it goes as low as 16! so what the fuck is americas problem? we are FAT ASSES! the average 5ft girl in japan weighs only 77-86lbs! well duh, angelababy is 15lbs "underweight" so if i was 15lbs "underweight" id be 75lbs. pshhh, which is what i wanted to weigh in the first place! so i AM normal =) .......well, not that im planning on losing that much since im in recovery (...from being a normal japanese girl? haha!)...unitl i move to japan that is haha! well...instead of going as low as 75lbs if i moved to japan id go down to 80-89lbs so that im not completely ousted, but safe.

click here if you want to find out where your country stands health-wise, and click here to find out how many lbs "underweight" you would be allowed to be if your country was as healthy as japan. just subtract 10-15lbs from the lowest healthy weight on that chart.