needing friends for thinspiration!

i dont know what a stone is but i need to loose 25lbs by july so i feel ya

Just curious, what on earth is "thinspiration"?

I need to lose 30 by July...
Thinspiration I always go to youtube and look at people with the same body type as me and how much they have slim down. Keeps me going.

shadow2soul wrote: »

Just curious, what on earth is "thinspiration"?

@shadow2soul Usually thinspiration are pictures or quotes to inspire people to be thin. The majority of thinspo is created and used by people with eating disorders.

I prefer Fitspiration and there is an entire thread dedicated to real users who created their own inspirational photos.
http://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/1102508/mfp-fitspiration

Thanks. Good advice.

My goal is 80lbs in one year! I just started but I plan to stick with it! If you need a budy to keep up the weight lose with I can help.

As usmcmp says, "thinspiration" or "thinspo" is usually associated with images related to the proana movement (promotion of anorexia nervosa as a positive lifestyle choice). It is not a good term to use unless one is trying to promote eating disorders.

Tammyb819 wrote: »

My goal is to lose 10 lbs in 5weeks. But frankly, the weight should come off by itself if I can reach my true goal. The truth is I feel totally out of control. I've spent the last 30 years dieting. I've read all the books . I know what to do, but feel helpless to do it . I feel like I have an embarrassing secret. I know some of you ladies must feel the same. My goal is to get off of this crazy cycle once in for all. I'm searching myself for what might be missing. Or, perhaps what my Body is trying to tell my brain. I'm working hard to re-wire my brain so that I don't have the same reaction to food. It's tough. I'm scared that I just can't do this. But I'm going to give it my best effort.

Tammyb819 wrote: »

My goal is to lose 10 lbs in 5weeks. But frankly, the weight should come off by itself if I can reach my true goal. The truth is I feel totally out of control. I've spent the last 30 years dieting. I've read all the books . I know what to do, but feel helpless to do it . I feel like I have an embarrassing secret. I know some of you ladies must feel the same. My goal is to get off of this crazy cycle once in for all. I'm searching myself for what might be missing. Or, perhaps what my Body is trying to tell my brain. I'm working hard to re-wire my brain so that I don't have the same reaction to food. It's tough. I'm scared that I just can't do this. But I'm going to give it my best effort.

Why on earth would you ever think weight comes off by itself? It doesn't just one day decide yeh, I'm out of here.

It takes work - every single day kind of work to lose and maintain weight. You can't just lose it for like a 10 week time frame and then go back to eating mindlessly. It takes effort every single day to ensure you're not consuming more than you need to.

I am not thin, I came from being 340lbs in 2012. You have to want it, really really want it. And not just to be thin either because quite frankly, as an "Amazonian" like built woman ha ha I would struggle to hit and maintain anything under 190lbs (I'm 5'9 or 5'10 ish for reference).

You can't change how you re-act to food overnight. I struggled to give up pop - I love vanilla coke. And I wanted coke all the time, every meal, at night while I'm snacking, everything. Now, I can have one glass and say that's enough without over doing it and drinking the whole bottle. That kind of change takes time. And I used to love McDonalds - actually still do - but I know when I eat it I will get very, very ill and it will affect my running for a day or two. Not good.

Those kinds of changes take a lot of time. And if you have a goal of 5 weeks, you might hit it, you might not. But my goal is my lifetime - my goal is to be healthy and stay healthy for my life. My goal is be a full fledged runner at some point in my life. My goal isn't X lbs in X weeks . . . If you adjust your mindset to just being healthy for life, maybe you will find you can "stick to it" a little easier than driving yourself insane trying to lose 10 lbs in 5 weeks. To lose 1 lb you need a 3,500 calorie deficit. So to lose 10 lbs, you need a 35,000 calorie deficit over those 5 weeks. That is a 7,000 calorie deficit per week or 1,000 calorie deficit per day. Can you eat to be satisfied and still be within a 1,000 calorie deficit? You would have to be eating 1,000 calories less than your body needs to lose that kind of weight. Two things will happen: you'll get hangry like no body's business and drive yourself crazy or you'll start down a path of being really unhealthy.

I don't think it's sustainable long term.

Breezy: According to Google, a stone is 14 pounds. So your 25 lb is 3 lb less than 2 stone; 2 stone is 28 lb. Hope that helps!