Tips to Prevent the Media from Creating Emotional Distress

• Remember, the thin ideal is unacheivable for most women, and that the average size of the "idealised" woman is 13-19% below a healthy weight.
  
• Understand that weight loss advertisements could induce a subtle emotional reaction which may not be beneficial to you. By understanding this, you can develop coping mechanisms to deal with how the media may affect your self-esteem.
  
• The weight loss industry will not stop trying to advertise weight loss, as it revenues $55.4 million in revenue per year. Therefore, as unfortunate as it may be, it appears that it is up to us, the general public, to learn that the images in the media are altered, and that even those photographed do not look like the resulting image
  
• Remember that every woman is different, the human body has variety. It is this variety that makes us beautiful. Yes, some people may look like the magazine pictures, but others may not and that is okay. The reason for this is bone structure, the number of adipose (fat retaining) cells in your body, where those cells are located, the amount of muscle mass you can gain, and much more.