Would you rather be severely underweight or slightly overweight?

Anorexia is terrible. Who was the person who decided that women in Hollywood had to be anorexic?

slightly overweight, since i could always exercise it off. it would be easier (going the healthy way) to exercise fat content off then struggling with healthily putting weight on, especially with a fast matabolism.

Those who choose to be underweight are just silly. You've got people in other countries who don't have a choice. Starvation is their only choice. And there are actually people who CHOOSE to starve themselves? I just don't understand it. I get that there are some skinny people who are just naturally skinny but eat normally, but if you're hungry, it's smart to eat! You skip meals and your metabolism slows down. Which causes your body to store the fatty cells more often.

Underweight so I could pig out on icecream everyday :D

Personally, I think some of these comments sound sad. It doesnt make a difference what people say or how they look at you.. if you want to eat a burger, eat a burger..hell eat two if it makes your day. Just be sure that you make that up in the gym if you choose to. I'm the type of person to do what pleases me and i love to eat!! Don't get me wrong.. I have a curvy body..with everthing in the right place. I WOULD PICK OVER WEIGHT IN A MINUTE! Plus I know that guys love a little something to hold on to..consider that..ladies who have problems with their weight!!

Super skinny people are disguting. I feel like punching them but im in fear i might break them in half

underweight so tht way i feel better about myself AND YET i can eat whatever i want without feeling bad about it. best of both worlds.

Nah...gotta have the hourglass figure. Severely underweight women look like boys.
Fit and trim to slightly curvy is good.

I'd rather be underweight. Weight is hard to lose. Being underweight would jus mean no diets or exercise haha

I like being a skinny chick. I've been obese before and people treat you like dirt. Now I can eat a cheeseburger, if I want to, without people giving me the stink-eye. Such is prejudice.

I'm underweight and unable to gain weight. -.-"

I'd rather be slightly overweight. It's the only option closest to a healthy weight. I'm female and I don't care about looks. I'd rather be healthy than pretty (not that severely underweight is necessarily pretty)

no ive been a fitness freak before.. its no fun, I'd be slightly over weight and try to lose it slowly.

it took me three years of pain and working out to make that body i have now[yeah i know im modest]i wouldnt exchange it for nothing ;]

Where is the normal option D:

not sure but when i was in school i was small 105 pounds when i graduated and i as a little under now i bolloned up to 130 i mean it's not huge but not real tiny eiather i'm still healthy though just not as small as i used to be i detfinlty don't want to be obese though

I'd rather be underweight. Better to have to pig out on pizza and cheeseburgers to get to a healthy weight, than have to murder myself in a gym.

Underweight so that not only could I eat whatever I wanted, but any little thing I did to my body in the gym would only enhance it.

i picked underweight so i can wear a bikini and eat all the food i want in the world. and never get fat. i am so fat right now. stupid c section. i got like a flab of fat that won't go away!!

i am underwight

I'd rather be underweight,so i can eat whatever the hell I want and still look good :D

None D:<

i mean I'm glad overweight won, but these results still terrify me. I've had a lot of people really close to me struggle with anorexia and it pains me on such a visceral level.
It pains me also mentally as a straight guy, who never in my life has met anyone that prefers the body type portrayed in magazines. I've seen most guys find it neutral, along with being less underweight, less underweight than that, (there are many levels of underweight before you even get to average) and then average, slightly overweight, slightly more overweight, all the way up to and a good little bit over what a doctor would consider healthy. Of course there will always be outliers. But for the vast majority of guys if a girl is within this entire range, it doesn't matter where.
It also is just a refusal of science and nature. We eat, that's literally what we do. The fact that we live in a society and do other stuff, is only because through mostly agriculture and some urbanization, we've fucked up all the land and forgotten how to forage and hunt. We only do this other stuff now so we can eat.
Our bodies are food. As fetuses, our mass comes from the food our mom consumes. And throughout our lives we eat food and that makes us grow.
Food and humans are actually the exact same thing, just in different forms.
I know this is falling on deaf ears if anyone anorexic is reading this. It is like talking a cigarette smoker into quitting. And can't be rationalized, at least not by someone else.
It's an actual disease, which isn't to say it can't be managed. And if you can still walk, MANAGE IT NOW.
I've chatted with a person who got to the point where she was in the hospital, could only consume liquids, couldn't even walk, then tried to fell and broke her hip.
I don't know what to say or who is to blame, but these girls and guys need love.
It is compulsive and is about control, I just wish there was another way, some other compulsion, obsessive thought cycle that could happen, that wasn't literally destroying their bodies.
I started kissing this girl like 6 months ago, and she was really pretty, and my girlfriend from the past liked when I was so skinny my stomach was flat. So I stopped eating as much, I am 6'2" and weighing like 130 pounds. I looked up and saw that I was underweight.
I don't care if I'm less confident in my body now, I am forcing myself to eat. I am going to weigh within a healthy range even if it means being depressed.
Giving in to being under what your doctor says is healthy is death.

stupid poll

Under because I can always gain weight.

I'm already underweight not because I'm starving myself but because of my diet(?) and I'm guessing, a extremely fast metabolism. I like the way am. I've noticed that it's more socially acceptable to be thin than to be overweight. If I were overweight I'd have to deal with constant prejudice and harassing that I don't have to deal with because of my weight. Sure, there's always going to be a person who has a problem with thin people but the hatred will certainly be lessened. Another reason that I don't want to be overweight is because I have certain aversions to it, which is not to say that I despise overweight people because I don't.

Its true that everyone is beautiful in their own way. I think that the main reason for this "weight war" is the media. The media insists that "thin is in" and that having weight, especially in excess, is undesirable. Something needs to be done to change this.

A porker?

I think i am under weight now so it really doesn't bother me... Now the word severe is what creeps me out... Like size 0/00 at the age of 19 severe? Or like ethiopian, 3rd world country, holocaust skinny type of severe? If its the second one then I will have to change my answer... I don't mind seeing a little bone, I am use to it... But I don't want to see organs and skeletons... Like that is so creepy weird ;/

Media Industry, y u no think normal weight is enough? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

id choose underweight and then go all out on a krispy kreme bingeand I would smoke weed and go to buffet restaurantss everyday.. and eat whoppera most days. and so forth until I gained enough weight to be perfect!!

i think severely underweight is better just go to mcdonalds then go be the just right weight and if you were phat you need 5 days or usually more gym workout

I'd rather be underweight, even if I had to choose "severely underweight". Over weight is *gross*!

The question itself implies that its better to be underweight...

but who would choose severely underweight over slightly over?

Severely underweight people is not really always cuz their anirexic, sometimes they have really fast metabolisms or their sick, i think its kinda sad how people are always picking on em', its just who they are.

not that i have anything against over weight ppl

but im from seattle, the fittest city in the USA, and being fat would just suckkkk if i had to be around all these skinny people

plus im already a little underweight and i could stand to lose a bit more, so. idk, maybe im just fucked up

I'd rather be thin that fat...even slightly fat.

Thinner = Live long and more healthy, less problems when you get older.

Even slightly over weight means there will be some health issues.

Well, being currently a good two stone overweight.... have a guess?

Damn, StrangeDuckDude is so right >.> Why didn't I read his comment before voting? Why God, why?! :P