Everytime I visit a supermarket here in Canada I see magazines in the impluse buy zone that have both men and women on the covers that have lost huge amounts of weight. I always love the reasons they give. It makes me laugh that they generally cite a desire to be thin to look better or wanting to be desired by the other sex. I have always felt these to be silly reasons to lose weight. They are image based reasons that are controlled largely by the societal norms caused by the images we see on the covers of magazines and other media sources. It is a cycle. I think this was a part of the reason I grew up struggling with my weight. I wanted to have a reason to lose weight that had nothing to do with image but had bigger implications. I lost weight because I live in a rich part of the world where people are dying from diseases that are caused by over eating, while in poorer parts in the world people are struggling just to get enough food to survive. It is stupid for us to consume so much. It was for this reason that I lost weight. I think I should go on the cover of one of these magazines and have that as my guiding force in weight loss. I think it might give people a better more grounded reason to do something that will help their health.