Research: Thesis

Hello Everyone, some of you may or may not know I am working on my thesis regarding WLS. I have a few questions to throw out at this board as well as the main board, if you'd kindly give me honest answers this will not be incorporated into the thesis per se, it's just something I want to see if it is necessary to focus on in my thesis. Thanks! 1. What age did you "see" yourself as being chubby, heavy, fat, overweight, obese? 2. What influence did toys have on your opinion of body image? (i.e., dolls both male and female). 3. Earliest years (for those who have been battling this since childhood), how did family influence your body image? 4. How much of an impact was television on your body image? Name a few shows that influenced you positively or negatively. ****That's all for now, I just want to get an idea of our sociocultural influences on body image****

1.. What age did you "see" yourself as being chubby, heavy, fat, overweight, obese? 12 2. What influence did toys have on your opinion of body image? (i.e., dolls both male and female). Nothing 3. Earliest years (for those who have been battling this since childhood), how did family influence your body image? Came from a heavy family so it was normal,until I hit the real world 4. How much of an impact was television on your body image? Name a few shows that influenced you positively or negatively. TV had a big impact it was like wow I am not normal, all of the sitcoms from the 70's charles angels, etc. HOPE THIS HELPS TORI

Hi Kelli! 1. What age did you "see" yourself as being chubby, heavy, fat, overweight, obese? *** I saw myself as overweight as early as 2nd grade(7ish). That's when the doctors started calling me the tall chubby kid. *** 2. What influence did toys have on your opinion of body image? (i.e., dolls both male and female). *** Nothing... I didn't really worry about the dolls*** 3. Earliest years (for those who have been battling this since childhood), how did family influence your body image? *** Probably fifth grade- grandmother started making comments *** 4. How much of an impact was television on your body image? Name a few shows that influenced you positively or negatively. *** I always knew the chicks were abnormally tiny... but I still hated the way I was different. It was all the shows... none imparticular. ***

Hi 1. I saw myself as chubby in second grade. By fourth grade I was most definately fat. 2. Toys didn't have any influence. 3. It was normal to be heavy and big but everyone was always on a diet. 4. TV had no impact on my body image until I was much older but I already knew I was obese at that point and was always trying to do something about it. No shows in particular. Hope this helps.

1. What age did you "see" yourself as being chubby, heavy, fat, overweight, obese? I was always fat and knew it. I was also bigger than everyone else, taller, broader. I think I became truely aware of my size difference in fifth grade. I refused to do a PE game called log rolling, you laid down on others and they rolled over and over and you rolled off. I refused because I was to heavy and was afraid I would hurt someone. Mom had to come in and talk to the teacher. God bless her, she told them that was the stupidist game she ever heard of and it was okay for me to say no, let her do something else. 2. What influence did toys have on your opinion of body image? (i.e., dolls both male and female). I wanted long hair red like my Chrissy doll. So at 27 I grew my hair long and colored it red! Have never looked back to mousy brown. 3. Earliest years (for those who have been battling this since childhood), how did family influence your body image? Every person in my family was fat except my 2nd cousin Sandy. "God made us this way and it's not right to question God." 4. How much of an impact was television on your body image? Name a few shows that influenced you positively or negatively. When I was growing up the people on TV looked like the people I knew in real life. Think Mayberry, Gunsmoke, the Cartrights. I thought TV reflected me well. Now I don't know anyone that looks like the people on TV and some of my friends are good looking people! Today people don't even look real. Teresa