thank you very much for concerning yourself with my self-esteem, but, please, don’t worry. I’m a bit self-critical, as a typical young woman can be, but “extremely insecure about her body” is really too much. Where in the article did you get the information, that I am “someone who has little or no self-esteem”? Maybe you have problems with your self-esteem? Why did the phrase in the article about liposuction make you so nervous? You don’t like your appearance? Maybe you need help? Read the article about how imagined body defects can spoil one’s life (Category “Diet and Weightloss”, article “How Imagined Body Defects Can Spoil Life”), I think, it would be interesting for you, and I hope, this will help. Please, don’t think about your body defects so much, this brings nothing but negative emotions. Life is so beautiful, just be happy with who you are!

Everyone should be concerned about their weight and health: eat a balanced diet and go in for sports. Excess weight was never good for anyone. I am sorry, that you don’t understand the real purpose of this article.

That is what is called self-esteem. Just for the record, I am fit, work out six days a week alternating strength training and cardio, and eat balanced nutrition outside of the occasional treat. I have to tell you that your post reads like someone who has little or no self-esteem and is extremely insecure about her body trying to make others feel badly about themselves, too. C’mon, liposuction??? Way to be “healthy”.

Also, because there exists such a prevalence of eating disorders among young women in our society, it would help if you defined “overweight”, because I know for a fact that it is not women carrying a few extra pounds who are at risk for all of the above consequences you list in a misleading manner. Plus, there are plenty of women who eat what they want when they are hungry, don’t work out and hate the idea of becoming a liposuctioned frankenstein that are still thin. What’s your damage??