Thinspiration?

taekwondo_bitch

I know it's bad and promotes eating disorders, but I use deadmau5 as motivation (even though he's of the opposite sex and technically underweight). Just sharing, can anyone relate?

Jen800

I look at fellow MFP'ers for inspiration, otherwise I look at fitspiration (not thinspiration). It took me a really long time to stop idealizing thigh gaps and whatnot, but once you realize how dangerous it is for some people to acheive such a thing, it can turn your mind around real fast.

Please try not to rely on thinspiration as your only source. Sure, if it helps a bit to push you to get that workout in, go for it. But don't it it your primary focus or you will ALWAYS disappoint yourself by not being able to be that "perfect" (photoshopped, properly lighted, or else unhealthy) model that you are seeing all over.

Best of luck!

taekwondo_bitch

I'm well aware of the effects that kind of thinspo ration can have. Mine was never like that though. It's just deadmau5, for no apparent reason other than his music is amazing. I don't idealize thigh gaps though. It was never meant to happen for most.

lua_

I don't use images of those who are underweight as 'inspiration' because I love my body and I have enough respect for my life to not go down that rabbit hole again. People who are inspired purely by thinness and not health need to either seek help, or think about whether their long-term health and mental wellbeing are worth being the same as some thinspo on the internet.

The word 'thinspiration' makes my stomach turn because I know for a fact that it was one of the triggers that started my eating disorder when I was 13. I am now 22 and starting yet another round of recovery. Health over thinspo.

taekwondo_bitch

Interesting, and well said. Still, I think that not everyone uses it like that. Again I can only relate to my views but I use it (deadmau5, not fake tanned tumblr girls) to inspire results so that if I ever just say "what's the point?" I can use it to get back on track. My health has always been down the toilet anyway - I was pretty overweight at 12, lost the weight and am now thin, but have a high body fat percentage still. It's ridiculous.

Graelwyn75

Most people on this site, are aiming for health and fitness, or for recovery from eating disorders. I think you will find the majority are not very approving of this sort of unhealthy ideal, and will not appreciate it being promoted either, especially in Success Stories. Having suffered EDs myself for much of my life, I most certainly do not approve and really hope you do not intend to spread thinspo ideas about the forums when there are vulnerable individuals in recovery on site.

Of_Monsters_and_Meat

Interesting, and well said. Still, I think that not everyone uses it like that. Again I can only relate to my views but I use it (deadmau5, not fake tanned tumblr girls) to inspire results so that if I ever just say "what's the point?" I can use it to get back on track. My health has always been down the toilet anyway - I was pretty overweight at 12, lost the weight and am now thin, but have a high body fat percentage still. It's ridiculous.

Do you mean the girls are fake or the tans are fake? Either way I have a few on my friends list. They are great real people.
Overweight at 12?? Time to move on, you are 21 now, go down to the pub and have a drink and relax.

Blue801

It isn't healthy to idealize an underweight body for inspiration, even if it isn't your typical thigh gap scrawny girl. If you are already thin, as you say, then it isn't healthy for you to keep trying to lose weight. You need to build some muscle if you want to lower your body fat % or you'll be skinny fat, right? Aiming for underweight is unhealthy.

taekwondo_bitch

Interesting, and well said. Still, I think that not everyone uses it like that. Again I can only relate to my views but I use it (deadmau5, not fake tanned tumblr girls) to inspire results so that if I ever just say "what's the point?" I can use it to get back on track. My health has always been down the toilet anyway - I was pretty overweight at 12, lost the weight and am now thin, but have a high body fat percentage still. It's ridiculous.

Do you mean the girls are fake or the tans are fake? Either way I have a few on my friends list. They are great real people.
Overweight at 12?? Time to move on, you are 21 now, go down to the pub and have a drink and relax.

Not sure what I was trying to say with that other than they don't look that good in real life. Nobody does. It's 3 pm, but coffee here I come. Screw the pub.

taekwondo_bitch

It isn't healthy to idealize an underweight body for inspiration, even if it isn't your typical thigh gap scrawny girl. If you are already thin, as you say, then it isn't healthy for you to keep trying to lose weight. You need to build some muscle if you want to lower your body fat % or you'll be skinny fat, right? Aiming for underweight is unhealthy.

I know, but hey, everyone's different.

taekwondo_bitch

Most people on this site, are aiming for health and fitness, or for recovery from eating disorders. I think you will find the majority are not very approving of this sort of unhealthy ideal, and will not appreciate it being promoted either, especially in Success Stories. Having suffered EDs myself for much of my life, I most certainly do not approve and really hope you do not intend to spread thinspo ideas about the forums when there are vulnerable individuals in recovery on site.

That wasn't what I was trying to do at all. I was just wondering if anyone was thinking the same as me.

Blue801

It isn't healthy to idealize an underweight body for inspiration, even if it isn't your typical thigh gap scrawny girl. If you are already thin, as you say, then it isn't healthy for you to keep trying to lose weight. You need to build some muscle if you want to lower your body fat % or you'll be skinny fat, right? Aiming for underweight is unhealthy.

I know, but hey, everyone's different.

Yes. So true. ED is definitely "different".

taekwondo_bitch

Wow, that was rude. I do not have an eating disorder. My health, as I have stated before, has always been 'down the toilet'. What does it matter anyway? I could always just recover. Or I could just not get an eating disorder. Either one works, though I like the second one the best.

taekwondo_bitch

It isn't healthy to idealize an underweight body for inspiration, even if it isn't your typical thigh gap scrawny girl. If you are already thin, as you say, then it isn't healthy for you to keep trying to lose weight. You need to build some muscle if you want to lower your body fat % or you'll be skinny fat, right? Aiming for underweight is unhealthy.

I know, but hey, everyone's different.

Yes. So true. ED is definitely "different".

Wow, that was rude. I do not have an eating disorder. My health, as I have stated before, has always been 'down the toilet'. What does it matter anyway? I could always just recover. Or I could just not get an eating disorder. Either one works, though I like the second one the best.

*sorry, I meant to quote.

Of_Monsters_and_Meat

Wow, that was rude. I do not have an eating disorder. My health, as I have stated before, has always been 'down the toilet'. What does it matter anyway? I could always just recover. Or I could just not get an eating disorder. Either one works, though I like the second one the best.

You don't really recovery from an ED. You do permanent damage to your organs and metabolism. I don't have one, so I could not offer 1st hand info.
Also the way you talk, you already have an eating disorder. Talk to your Doctor.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hunger-artist/201011/starvation-study-shows-recovery-anorexia-is-possible-only-regaining-weight

Blue801

It isn't healthy to idealize an underweight body for inspiration, even if it isn't your typical thigh gap scrawny girl. If you are already thin, as you say, then it isn't healthy for you to keep trying to lose weight. You need to build some muscle if you want to lower your body fat % or you'll be skinny fat, right? Aiming for underweight is unhealthy.

I know, but hey, everyone's different.

Yes. So true. ED is definitely "different".

Wow, that was rude. I do not have an eating disorder. My health, as I have stated before, has always been 'down the toilet'. What does it matter anyway? I could always just recover. Or I could just not get an eating disorder. Either one works, though I like the second one the best.

*sorry, I meant to quote.

Yes. If you were someone I knew and cared for in real life I'm sure you'd have loads of adjectives to describe me. I'd encourage/pester/drag you to go see a counselor until you either avoided me altogether or went to get some help. If you honestly talk to a counselor who deals with eating disorders and the counselor thinks you are fine then snazzy, but at this point it sounds unlikely. I wonder if you suspect this already or if you truly feel you have a healthy relationship with food. Well, you're not my little sister so I can't try to drag to to a counselor, but please take care of yourself. It is sad for many on MFP to read these sorts of posts, and for some reading this I-want-to-be-underweight-and-that's-ok-cause-everyone-is-different kind of post is downright triggering and unhealthy.

CardiacLioness

Wow, that was rude. I do not have an eating disorder. My health, as I have stated before, has always been 'down the toilet'. What does it matter anyway? I could always just recover. Or I could just not get an eating disorder. Either one works, though I like the second one the best.

You don't really recovery from an ED. You do permanent damage to your organs and metabolism. I don't have one, so I could not offer 1st hand info.
Also the way you talk, you already have an eating disorder. Talk to your Doctor.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hunger-artist/201011/starvation-study-shows-recovery-anorexia-is-possible-only-regaining-weight

"Just" recover and "just" not get an ED.... not as simple as this and you make it sound as if it is a conscious option to have/not have an ED. I've had a few different disorders, including EDs, that I didn't know about for years. And then when I did acknowledge I had them, I was so far in that it wasn't like I flipped a switch and commanded them to go away. I had to, and have been, working hard to live alongside them, in spite of them.
And yes recovery is a life-long thing. Just like an alcoholic is always, in a sense, always going to be an alcoholic, an ED'd person is always going to be prone to ED'd behaviors more than a non-ED'd person.

Plus the whole notion behind thinspiration IS disordered. Because it is NOT your body you are inspired by and the ideals you are lusting after are something and someone else entirely. It's not wrong to be appreciative of other's bodies (even if underweight -- underweight people are beautiful, too) but when you make the images of their bodies a source of 'inspiration' for yourself and your goals then I would say that that is kind of unhealthy. Even if they are 'healthy bodies' (images of thin, lean, ripped people), because again, it's not your body and there is no image for what a 'healthy' body looks like.

If you want to be inspired, inspire yourself.

taekwondo_bitch

It isn't healthy to idealize an underweight body for inspiration, even if it isn't your typical thigh gap scrawny girl. If you are already thin, as you say, then it isn't healthy for you to keep trying to lose weight. You need to build some muscle if you want to lower your body fat % or you'll be skinny fat, right? Aiming for underweight is unhealthy.

I know, but hey, everyone's different.

Yes. So true. ED is definitely "different".

Wow, that was rude. I do not have an eating disorder. My health, as I have stated before, has always been 'down the toilet'. What does it matter anyway? I could always just recover. Or I could just not get an eating disorder. Either one works, though I like the second one the best.

*sorry, I meant to quote.

Yes. If you were someone I knew and cared for in real life I'm sure you'd have loads of adjectives to describe me. I'd encourage/pester/drag you to go see a counselor until you either avoided me altogether or went to get some help. If you honestly talk to a counselor who deals with eating disorders and the counselor thinks you are fine then snazzy, but at this point it sounds unlikely. I wonder if you suspect this already or if you truly feel you have a healthy relationship with food. Well, you're not my little sister so I can't try to drag to to a counselor, but please take care of yourself. It is sad for many on MFP to read these sorts of posts, and for some reading this I-want-to-be-underweight-and-that's-ok-cause-everyone-is-different kind of post is downright triggering and unhealthy.

Thank you. Not sure if it was or not but I read that as a compliment in the sense that MFP does care. As for a healthy relationship, probably not, but I'm happy. I just want there to be less of me. I want to take up less space, and I want people to notice me. That's it. I want to be like my idol deadmau5 - obviously not make millions off music but you get the picture. It becomes something else. Not an ED, but something.

Blue801

It isn't healthy to idealize an underweight body for inspiration, even if it isn't your typical thigh gap scrawny girl. If you are already thin, as you say, then it isn't healthy for you to keep trying to lose weight. You need to build some muscle if you want to lower your body fat % or you'll be skinny fat, right? Aiming for underweight is unhealthy.

I know, but hey, everyone's different.

Yes. So true. ED is definitely "different".

Wow, that was rude. I do not have an eating disorder. My health, as I have stated before, has always been 'down the toilet'. What does it matter anyway? I could always just recover. Or I could just not get an eating disorder. Either one works, though I like the second one the best.

*sorry, I meant to quote.

Yes. If you were someone I knew and cared for in real life I'm sure you'd have loads of adjectives to describe me. I'd encourage/pester/drag you to go see a counselor until you either avoided me altogether or went to get some help. If you honestly talk to a counselor who deals with eating disorders and the counselor thinks you are fine then snazzy, but at this point it sounds unlikely. I wonder if you suspect this already or if you truly feel you have a healthy relationship with food. Well, you're not my little sister so I can't try to drag to to a counselor, but please take care of yourself. It is sad for many on MFP to read these sorts of posts, and for some reading this I-want-to-be-underweight-and-that's-ok-cause-everyone-is-different kind of post is downright triggering and unhealthy.

Thank you. Not sure if it was or not but I read that as a compliment in the sense that MFP does care. As for a healthy relationship, probably not, but I'm happy. I just want there to be less of me. I want to take up less space, and I want people to notice me. That's it. I want to be like my idol deadmau5 - obviously not make millions off music but you get the picture. It becomes something else. Not an ED, but something.

Beating a dead horse at this point I'm sure, but I'll say it anyways. "I just want there to be less of me. I just want to take up less space, and I want people to notice me." sounds very much like ED. It is less about food and more about your sense of self. ((((Hugs)))) I wish you the best. Please don't follow a self destructive path. Get some help.

taekwondo_bitch

It isn't healthy to idealize an underweight body for inspiration, even if it isn't your typical thigh gap scrawny girl. If you are already thin, as you say, then it isn't healthy for you to keep trying to lose weight. You need to build some muscle if you want to lower your body fat % or you'll be skinny fat, right? Aiming for underweight is unhealthy.

I know, but hey, everyone's different.

Yes. So true. ED is definitely "different".

Wow, that was rude. I do not have an eating disorder. My health, as I have stated before, has always been 'down the toilet'. What does it matter anyway? I could always just recover. Or I could just not get an eating disorder. Either one works, though I like the second one the best.

*sorry, I meant to quote.

Yes. If you were someone I knew and cared for in real life I'm sure you'd have loads of adjectives to describe me. I'd encourage/pester/drag you to go see a counselor until you either avoided me altogether or went to get some help. If you honestly talk to a counselor who deals with eating disorders and the counselor thinks you are fine then snazzy, but at this point it sounds unlikely. I wonder if you suspect this already or if you truly feel you have a healthy relationship with food. Well, you're not my little sister so I can't try to drag to to a counselor, but please take care of yourself. It is sad for many on MFP to read these sorts of posts, and for some reading this I-want-to-be-underweight-and-that's-ok-cause-everyone-is-different kind of post is downright triggering and unhealthy.

Thank you. Not sure if it was or not but I read that as a compliment in the sense that MFP does care. As for a healthy relationship, probably not, but I'm happy. I just want there to be less of me. I want to take up less space, and I want people to notice me. That's it. I want to be like my idol deadmau5 - obviously not make millions off music but you get the picture. It becomes something else. Not an ED, but something.

Beating a dead horse at this point I'm sure, but I'll say it anyways. "I just want there to be less of me. I just want to take up less space, and I want people to notice me." sounds very much like ED. It is less about food and more about your sense of self. ((((Hugs)))) I wish you the best. Please don't follow a self destructive path. Get some help.

Thanks. In all honesty I probably make it sound worse than it actually is.

ninerbuff

Sorry but denial of a potential issue (getting drawn to believing thinspo is fine) isn't going to get much support here. To even be drawn to a site like that is an indication that you may have a distorted view of how you should look.

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ShellyBell999

That wasn't what I was trying to do at all. I was just wondering if anyone was thinking the same as me.

Nope

ColetteM6

I vote for high jacking the term thinspiration!
My thinspirations are the people posting success stories on the message board!!!
:bigsmile:

taekwondo_bitch

Sorry but denial of a potential issue (getting drawn to believing thinspo is fine) isn't going to get much support here. To even be drawn to a site like that is an indication that you may have a distorted view of how you should look.

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IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

Like I didn't know that already.

summertime_girl

Aw, I want to hug you. Then shake you. Thinspo is awful for anyone to look at. You can't reach that without seriously damaging your body and your mind. It doesn't sound like you're in a place to hear it yet, but you're a beautiful girl. Don't kill yourself to look like someone who is sick.

Blue801

You're only eating 500-600 calories a day? Seriously? That will kill you, slowly, but it really won't take that long.:sad:

randomtai

Nope. :noway:

taekwondo_bitch

Aw, I want to hug you. Then shake you. Thinspo is awful for anyone to look at. You can't reach that without seriously damaging your body and your mind. It doesn't sound like you're in a place to hear it yet, but you're a beautiful girl. Don't kill yourself to look like someone who is sick.

I don't think he looks sick.
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=joel+zimmerman&FORM=HDRSC2

Sovi_

I have no clue what's going on here. I'm gonna finish my breakfast then go for a run and maybe lift today.

taekwondo_bitch

I have no clue what's going on here. I'm gonna finish my breakfast then go for a run and maybe lift today.

Good for you. I have rowing later on.

ninerbuff

Sorry but denial of a potential issue (getting drawn to believing thinspo is fine) isn't going to get much support here. To even be drawn to a site like that is an indication that you may have a distorted view of how you should look.

A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition

Like I didn't know that already.

Then why bother to post it? To try to gain sympathy? If you're one that's willing to get help or advice on healthy ways to improve your life, then you'll get it. If you're going to support a site that doesn't, then really there's no reason to post.

A.C.E. Certified Personal/Group FitnessTrainer
IDEA Fitness member
Kickboxing Certified Instructor
Been in fitness for 30 years and have studied kinesiology and nutrition