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Originally posted by Nick
That's mostly because the female body is portrayed as thinner being sexier, while the male body is portrayed as more muscular being sexier, so guys usually don't feel as much need to lose weight to look better. It's different for gay guys though since thinner is more appealing to other guys usually.
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I forgot about that factor. With some of the guys, epecially in sports and bodybuilding competitions, we have the steroid issue.
Actually come to think of it, some wrestlers, from what I remember in High School, actually subjected themselves to not eating anything for a huge period of time in order to make the right competition weight. As soon as the weigh in was over, they attacked whatever food they could could get ahold of before competition.
I actually did a psychology paper on eating disorders back in High School! (On both Bulimia and Anorexia Nervosa) One of the things I found interesting about a bulimic, is during a binge episode, she (or he) would tend to eat up to
20,000 calories at a time. - (All of which is later purged through vomiting or through some other inappropriate alternative.)