Psychologies Magazine: Dilemmas answered - My Mama Says I'm Too Fat to Get A Man

So Psychologies Magazine is my unjustified addictive purchase and I'm now going thorough it's problem's page. Now we have this babe who writes in whose own mother tells her she needs to lose weight because she is too chucky to get funky. Apparently, baby girls tells mama - it's because she has being moving and that's why she is single. Then she writes the agony auntie or in upmarket Psychologies Magazine pyschotherapist speak that her mama had hurt in a disrespectful way. Ya'll need to by the current issue to find out what Madam Pyschotherapist says.

Then baby girl goes on to say her mama is fat too and she refuses to see herself in a similar view. She cried real bad over her mama's comment. Says she ain't denying her size but refuse to beat herself over it. Yeah, right - lock the pies away.

First thing before we get into the whole self esteem issues.She didn't say how big she was. I guess it must be over a 'normal' big. Then fat is fat. Deal with it. Most guys and here is the key - most guys will date only up to a certain size then you have to compensate for your fatness. I don't get the whole 'disrespect' thing.

Sometimes in life I think you need to be objective. Not being fat anit going make you single but it is a valid view point. And plenty of people will think that too. Therefore take away blokes who think like her mama there are a few left.

Also people are hardly single because size. It is probaly more about attitude and how she 'images' her self.  And finally baby girl most men and I mean most men don't really care about size. If they fancy you, they fancy you. As I said it's more about your image and confidence rather than size.

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Psychologies Magazine: Why do I read it?

If there was magazine that I could not put down and had to buy it would this one. At the whooping price of £3.70 which is about $7.00.  I am truely addicted and to get out a subscription would be admitting defeat to the power it had over me. It's a very emotive magazine.

Why do I get it? Well at the magazine stand it seems to accurately solve all the problems in my life. I can relate to all the subjects and I think getting it will make me a better, more successful and happier person than I already am. This effect is quickly worn off when I take it home and dump in the corner of my living room.

I understoond this after a buying a couple of isses. Then I thought - well there must be something I could use to jusfity its purchase. Nothing, I still myself going to the checkout till with it firmly in my hand. Even when I newstand surf (reading all the magazines and indeed reading Psychologies Magazine cover to cover) I still feel I must buy it. It's not really for the celeb cover telling me how much they have suffered in their lives. This November issue it's Robin Wright. It's really for the little nuggets of advice that is scattered all over the magazine. A paragraph here and a paragraph there.

Some of the articles are good and others pure drivel. Well, maybe the drivel stuff does not apply to me. Even the editor Louse Chunn  in her November editor's letter says not everything is relevant to her life as she isn't every woman.

I also find that some but not all of the articles have a hidden agenda as in getting you to buy a book or something. They are appear as sophisticated press releases where authors come to flog or promote a book. Hardly an article without a footnote saying that some book or another will be available.



Anyway I've decided to see if I can disect why I buy this magazine. My justifcation this month was that I could use it to inspire my writing. Well I guess I've started.

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