Chapter 10 in the book is talking about the motivation of a behavior and the relationship with the emotions. Living things have motivations to keep living or behave the way they. For example, a bacteria lives, eats, and reproduces in order to have a better chance of surviving in the environment. Yet, humans are more complicated living things. Humans tend to be motivated for many things and the purposes for keep going everyday may change over time. Also, that motivation can be related to emotions and necessities that a person needs to live. Primarily, humans tend to want to fit in society or in a specific group. To be accepted, they have to do or look like the group they want to be in. For example, the meaning of beauty in social media had
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However, every time I would look at myself I would feel like I am too fat to be call “beautiful”. I didn’t want to be healthy; I wanted to be slim as the girls in the magazines. I wanted to lose weight as much as possible in order to look like them; yet, I didn’t really follow through the “diet” that I planned. On the first week of my diet, I started to skip breakfast in order to lose weight. However, I didn’t see a huge change after a week; but I continued doing it; even if my body wanted food. After three weeks of skipping breakfast and just drinking green tea, there wasn’t the change of weight that I wanted. Then, after that i gave up on my goal of being slim as the girls of the magazines because I can’t starve myself to that degree because I like to eat and I’m not wanting to have a distorted body as some girls that have anorexia for a long time. If I want to be “slim”, I shouldn’t be skipping meals, I should eat healthier food and doing exercises. By skipping meals doesn’t mean that I would get the body that I want.
Conclusion
Eating disorders can affect many people and it can’t be noticeable because there are not visible symptoms that a person can identify it. They can have health consequences and mental state problems because they are harming themselves with things that shouldn’t be doing. If people in the society could get this basic information, there would be less people actually doing this and more people be aware about this problem that anyone can be going
However, every time I would look at myself I would feel like I am too fat to be call “beautiful”. I didn’t want to be healthy; I wanted to be slim as the girls in the magazines. I wanted to lose weight as much as possible in order to look like them; yet, I didn’t really follow through the “diet” that I planned. On the first week of my diet, I started to skip breakfast in order to lose weight. However, I didn’t see a huge change after a week; but I continued doing it; even if my body wanted food. After three weeks of skipping breakfast and just drinking green tea, there wasn’t the change of weight that I wanted. Then, after that i gave up on my goal of being slim as the girls of the magazines because I can’t starve myself to that degree because I like to eat and I’m not wanting to have a distorted body as some girls that have anorexia for a long time. If I want to be “slim”, I shouldn’t be skipping meals, I should eat healthier food and doing exercises. By skipping meals doesn’t mean that I would get the body that I want.
Conclusion
Eating disorders can affect many people and it can’t be noticeable because there are not visible symptoms that a person can identify it. They can have health consequences and mental state problems because they are harming themselves with things that shouldn’t be doing. If people in the society could get this basic information, there would be less people actually doing this and more people be aware about this problem that anyone can be going