The media- Is it affecting our views on weight?

The media. Whether you like it or not, it influences our views every second of our life. Weight, these days, is one of the biggest topics everywhere, from anorexic models hobbling down runways, to overexaggerated weight loss shows (ex. the biggest loser). Everywhere you go, you seem to be caught up in a whirlwind of McDonald's commercials advertising fatty foods and shows that are glorifying weightloss to the extent that people are punished for not losing enough! I mean really, how is someone supposed to be motivated to lose weight when they see someone else being "voted off" the biggest loser for losing to little of weight? How is a person supposed to differentiate between a healthy weight or an unhealthy weight when the only veiws that are being imposed on us are two different extremes? My opinion is that an individual should be the weight that they feel comfortable in and that they can be proud of themselves at. But with so many aspects of the media pushing people to go to dangerous extremes, how will someone know when enough is enough?