How do the Instagram girls get a good body

Hannahjane123456

Im 4 foot 11 and 124 pounds and i want to be about 105 pounds and have a good body like they all have on Instagram. I lift heavy weights and ive just started the 4.3 diet and eating a good amount of protein on the normal days, but does it take years to look like the girls on Instagram?

psuLemon

Photoshop, good posing and years of diet and exercise.

ETA: When I say diet, it's not just weight loss. It's fat loss and muscle gains. The latter part if what people don't realize can take awhile. I would recommend spending some time in our bodybuilding section as it' has more of our elite lifters to help get you where you want to go.

emmabrookes1

Filters and photoshop in many cases.

sardelsa

psuLemon wrote: »

Photoshop, good posing and years of diet and exercise.

ETA: When I say diet, it's not just weight loss. It's fat loss and muscle gains. The latter part if what people don't realize can take awhile. I would recommend spending some time in our bodybuilding section as it' has more of our elite lifters to help get you where you want to go.

All of this. Also many of them, at least the ones I follow, are past/current bodybuilders (bikini, etc) so they have that muscle base. Many also had a coach to guide them along the way.

Talan79

If you are looking at the bikini girls that compete, like sardelsa said, many of them have a coach.
A muscular base is the key thing with them.
I follow several girls, and some have been transparent about the diet. I’ve seen girls at 5”2 get under 900 calories closer to show week.
I’ve also seen some rebound badly and gain 40 pounds post show.

BarbaraHelen2013

Not to deny any of the advice given but realistically, it’s a good idea to remember that genetics do come into play too.

Don’t torture yourself by comparing yourself to random people on the internet. Work at being healthy and fit, for your own wellbeing.

That’s the best reason there is!

mkculs13

BarbaraHelen2013 wrote: »

Not to deny any of the advice given but realistically, it’s a good idea to remember that genetics do come into play too.

Don’t torture yourself by comparing yourself to random people on the internet. Work at being healthy and fit, for your own wellbeing.

That’s the best reason there is!

Genetics plays an important role I remember my (now ex) husband saying to me once, "You're in good shape; you're not well built." Wow. Yeah, there is a reason he is my ex.

I spent many years torturing myself over my small breasts and trying to starve myself into having a stomach that did not "stick out" as far as my boobs. It was a hopeless effort--as has been pointed out here, almost no one with a uterus is going to have a "flat" stomach. See this thread: https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10689837/does-this-uterus-make-my-stomach-look-fat/p1

You can get as fit as you want and that's one thing. But if you are comparing the way you look when fit to how others look when fit, you are likely to be unhappy. Thank god for the strong body you have. Remember that so many women alter themselves through filters, photoshop, and surgery.

Enjoy your journey to fitness and love the body god gave you.

SnifterPug

Many of the insta influencers look like that because it is their job to look like that. Plus filters, photoshop etc. Can you devote yourself to your looks 24/7? If not then forget about the insta girls and just work on looking like the best version of YOU. It takes time to make any physical changes, but embrace and enjoy the process and take pride in achieving small goals along the way.

Mr_Healthy_Habits

Another gorilla in the room not mentioned is drugs...

In athletics drug use is regulated, among models, movie stars, like industries... Not so much

Also cosmetic surgery is probably a lot more common than you'd think...

MelanieCN77

Some diet and exercise, some blessed genes, age, and much much prep, angles, lighting and editing - soooo much editing. Facetune all day. Photoshop all night. They are not walking around looking like that.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Instagramreality/
https://www.instagram.com/beauty.false2/
https://www.instagram.com/s0cialmediavsreality/

Hannahjane123456

Thanks for all your feedback, I guess its not all what it seems then

ChickenKillerPuppy

I know this is easier said that done, but trying to look like random women on the internet is not a healthy goal. You don’t even know what these people look like in real life, and your body may just be shaped differently. It’s a long journey, but I would work on goals that only focus on you (losing weight, building good habits, building muscle, whatever) and don’t involve other people in your goals. It’s a losing battle.

springlering62

I always find these reddit etc links so sad but totally entertaining. How anyone can go to that much effort to try to be something they’re not, and it’s obvious the first time you see them IRL, just mystifies me. What’s the point of trying to psyche out complete random strangers? I mean, do you go to bed happy that you’ve totally snowed some guy in Singapore or Tinytown, AL?

But then I see post after post from these poor innocents (sorry, OP, don’t mean it meanly) yearning to look like them, in their guise that never existed in the first place.

I’d like to reach through the screen, smack these fakers, and take away their opposable thumbs so they can’t keep faking this nonsense.

It was hard enough for my generation with the “cover girls”, but man oh man, to be young today is all new kinds of pressure.

And FWIW, hey media, stop throwing Christie Brinkley and Cindy Crawford in my face as “how to age gracefully. Give me a faking break. And their spawn. I’m so sick and tired of model and actors’ children automatically being foisted on us as the new elite. Let’s have someone new and interesting who’s earned the right to be “there” by something other than parental notoriety.

With all the variety and interest in the world, stop dipping in the same well.

springlering62

@Hannahjane123456 Hannah, honey, you be you. You are wonderful. Value yourself. Hugs.

AnnPT77

Hannahjane123456 wrote: »

Thanks for all your feedback, I guess its not all what it seems then

There, that's it!

Start from where you are, and work on being the best you. That's not going to be an exact copy of some other random (follower-seeking, therefore possibly ego-pathetic) person. You can be Individual, and excellent. You just need to pursue that.

Warning: It's a lifelong effort.
Promise: It's worth your effort, and pretty excellent.

Go! :flowerforyou:

yirara

What others have said. Genetics play a huge part as well. If one of those models had a not well developed bum to start with she would not market herself as a bum model, but by putting emphasis on her waist, shoulders, or whatever.

watts6151

Along side training
Most of the ones in my local gyms rely on the 3 C’s

New_Heavens_Earth

All of the above plus something my RD told me: They rarely post their bad days. So you're not seeing the days they're bloated or when their skin is acting up. Some are transparent enough to show that the six pack is not on display every day. Many count on perfection to keep their fan base.

Diatonic12

It's their job. They have giant hunks of time dedicated to their branding and body and fan base. It's a lucrative business if you've got the following to prop it up.

whitpauly

From ones I've seen they're not afraid of plastic surgery 🤷🏻‍♀️

MelanieCN77

springlering62 wrote: »

I always find these reddit etc links so sad but totally entertaining. How anyone can go to that much effort to try to be something they’re not, and it’s obvious the first time you see them IRL, just mystifies me. What’s the point of trying to psyche out complete random strangers? I mean, do you go to bed happy that you’ve totally snowed some guy in Singapore or Tinytown, AL?

It takes some mental gymnastics, doesn't it? I think it's probably 50/50 split between completely self aware people who are willing to make a career out of selling an image and a fantasy of a lifestyle and aesthetic, and people struggling with their image and general happiness and desperately needing validation of any kind. I would go so far as to even suggest that for those coming of age in a world with social media completely established, tuning your photos is expected and a given. There are apps now that can tune live video, you just have to assume everything might not be reality and go from there.

Additionally, I would bet that a large majority of the "influencer" accounts or those trying to get there come from a background in disordered eating and exercising behaviour, no matter what they claim. The image is an easy, breezy, pastel life of butt sculpting $100 workout pants and potted plants and beautiful clean white kitchens where they make their protein oats, but the reality is a whole other grind we can't know about.

pink_mint

Mr_Healthy_Habits wrote: »

Another gorilla in the room not mentioned is drugs...

In athletics drug use is regulated, among models, movie stars, like industries... Not so much

Also cosmetic surgery is probably a lot more common than you'd think...

Yeah. I have always been your average nobody (not in show business) but years ago I was a drug addict. And you might be surprised just how many compliments I got for looking so "good" and even "healthy" (I'm not kidding, I was on illegal drugs getting told I look healthy).

Drugs can take your appetite down to almost nothing and get you very lean. That's if they don't, you know, kill you. I think drug use may be more common than we know in these individuals, yes. And part of being on drugs is lying about it and hiding it so they're not out there admitting it.

AnnPT77

springlering62 wrote: »

I always find these reddit etc links so sad but totally entertaining. How anyone can go to that much effort to try to be something they’re not, and it’s obvious the first time you see them IRL, just mystifies me. What’s the point of trying to psyche out complete random strangers? I mean, do you go to bed happy that you’ve totally snowed some guy in Singapore or Tinytown, AL?

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One of the thing that distresses me is that some of this is baseline "normal" behavior. Socially, I meet young (20-something) women periodically, have some old-auntie chats with them IRL so we become casual friends , maybe know their first name (but they know my full name or we have mutual friends). Then I'll get a FB or whatever friend request from them, but I'm not even sure who it is, the "Brittany" or "Emily" or whomever, with a profile pic that doesn't have any skin pores, has bigger eyes (so oddly white, like the teeth!), different eyebrows, a more defined chin, plumper lips, thinner face, etc.

There are a couple of these social-media "friends" that I'm still not sure I understand exactly which "Laura" (or whatever) this is, among more than one, because the face-tuned, filtered, Insta-ed image in the picture is not that similar to the real young woman . . . and they're all sort of homogenized, trying to tune themselves to some theoretical ideal that makes them all look much more alike in photos than their delightful variety of looks and personalities IRL. Ugh.

I would even get it if I thought it were done sort of ironically, but I don't. I think it's just normal and expected now, that your photos should look "pretty" but not exactly human.

There's also that phenomenon of young women falling for the very manufactured pseudo-world the influencers present, and feeling like they and their lives fall short. This is sad, sad, sad to me. They (the normal young women) may be on a strong life path, getting an education, staying fit, having a social life . . . but feeling deficient compared to the visual fakes with their borrowed clothes/jewelry, who are picking which friends to include in photos (maybe even which friends to have), based on whether that friend's "look" creates the right impression.

How is any average young woman supposed to develop any kind of healthy ego strength, in this kind of toxic cultural brew? From experience, I know that some do; but this nonsense doesn't make it easy. Quite the reverse. It can snatch happiness - what could be happiness - out of the hands of someone who doesn't feel like she measures up to the magical influencer world (that is a complete fake). It's unconscionable.

I guess I'm old-fashioned, to think that doing things and accomplishing things, really personal and maybe even eccentric things, is a more reliable route to a sense of control, a positive self-image, good ego strength, and other things that feel good on the inside (and may even be more attractive on the outside) than is the emulation of popular fakery.

End rant. Sorry, OP. :flowerforyou:

MelanieCN77

I wanted to bump here to post a relevant reddit thread from a day ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/xxfitness/comments/g7x06h/finding_unposed_inspiration/

Some of the recommended socials in there are great. If you're going to consume, at least choose mindfully.

KimiAR

Follow Amber Dodzweit on insta. She’s been on multiple magazine covers and is totally an insta girl with balance. She does model shots next to ones where she doesn’t flex, shows her wrinkles and her awesomeness. It might give you a better idea of what it takes. She also talks some about camera angles making a more flattering impression. Insta is more the impression I want to give you of me, so it’s not always honest.