Skinny Fat Chicks encapsulates the physical results of erroneous dieting. Some women may destroy their dieting ambitions and end up heavier than they started. At the other end of the scale, a woman may starve herself, sacrificing precious muscle mass in the process, and push her body fat percentage to dangerously high levels. While this woman may look skinny, she’s literally becoming skin, fat and bones.
Writer Stacey Woods describes her “skinny-fat” situation in a Health magazine article. She explains, “I looked thin, but I was carrying around too much body fat. It’s a deceptive— and dangerous— ailment. Slender or not, a person with this profile is at risk for many of the same ailments that can befall obese people.”