Beauty and Weightloss

girlnamedivy
girlnamedivy Posts: 3 Member
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I know I'm beautiful but I also want to change into something different.

I'm interested in an hourglass figure with curves thats toned and smooth skin.

I'm mostly plant based. Looking for accountability and motivational support here in LA.

I posted in the other categories about needing supportive weightloss/fitness friends.

I'm in my thirties and enjoy writing books and making yummy meals that are healthy.

Hope you all have a good day.

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  • Xellercin
    Xellercin Posts: 924 Member
    My 2c?

    I personally aim for having the healthiest version of my body, and then celebrating whatever that health looks like.

    Your healthiest body will have the best shape, the nicest skin, the nicest hair, the brightest eyes, etc, etc.

    If you chase some idealized goal, then you can end up fighting your body. For example, I grew up in the heroine chic era, and I always wanted to be willowy and thin, but I'm curvy and even under weight I have full hips. I spent years fighting my body trying to force it to be an ideal it could never be.

    Now I nurture my body and celebrate how beautiful health looks. My body gets a free pass to look however it wants to look as a product of a healthy lifestyle. I'm the same weight and same shape as I was several years ago, but I've made positive health changes like quitting alcohol, and dramatically lowering my stress, and I look SO MUCH better than I did before.

    I didn't have a specific beauty goal in making these life choices, I just get rewarded with beauty bonuses every time I do something good for myself.

    Anyway, if this isn't helpful, feel free to ignore.
  • ninerbuff
    ninerbuff Posts: 48,996 Member
    You CAN'T have an hourglass figure if it's not in your genetics. If you hip width is wider than your shoulder width (bone structure), then an hour glass figure isn't happening.
    Your best bet is to get the best figure you can with YOUR predisposed shape.

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  • LaBellaHarris
    LaBellaHarris Posts: 63 Member
    I don't have much to lose weight-wise, but I've been struggling to find my sense of beauty and feel pretty again. I've naturally got an hourglass figure, but it doesn't look as impressive on a short girl as it does a tall girl, imo, and I can't seem to find that 'happy-or-ambivalent' feeling I used to have for my chest. :\ I'm hoping that quantifying goals (in body fat % & inches measured, as well as weight lifted) will help me trick my brain into seeing what's there, instead of whatever it is I'm feeling. Or barring that, that I'll at least be physically stronger, which in the past, has made me feel pretty (or at least happy? It's a glowy sense of confidence and a capable feeling, so I've been calling it "pretty" whenever I try to explain it) (I'm also a writer, so it is extra annoying that I can't seem to articulate this in a way that is universally understood).

    Good luck!

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