Are there any girls that look like or want to look like models?
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Thank you both for your lovely replies.
I have 60 looming (not a great feeling - where does the time go?) but then so does Michelle Pfeiffer who is near my height and born a month later.
So choose a model who is close to your height / build. Then aim as if you were going on that red carpet.
Forget what others say - because the doubters will - in the future - when you walk into a party looking like a million dollars - ask quietly "how did you do it?".
Expecting some magic potion or pills / magic tea from some Tibetan monk or several kgs of fairy dust as the answer.
They just don't want to hear the words "less food, more exercise, determination and willpower."
I have bought my VS set (its is gorgeous and looks impossibly light fragile) and I have given myself until November to drop a size and get in them............then I am up in the city with a cocktail..............on heels.
You can all look fantastic.
Why don't you start a thread for getting to that dream. A thread only for like minded people who want to achieve a dream of looking like a VS model? No doubters allowed.
I'm old enough to know I can't but I am using Michelle P. instead.
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Hey all! I've been MIA recently because I'm starting a new job tomorrow
and had to move almost 1000km/600 miles (I'm still actually figuring out long-term housing here 
). This has thrown my entire schedule out of whack so I haven't had as much time to exercise and ate out a lot this past week. I've been able to at least maintain during this time, which I feel pretty good about. I also lost a cm off my waist, so I'm 90-63-99 now 
I would love to be able to maintain a weight that's solidly under 60kg even if I eat a big meal, and I'm just under 60kg normally now.
@brianneangell08 I completely relate with the curvier struggle. I was a 32DD when I weighed closer to ~65kg/140lbs, and I'm a 30DD now. So many of the motivational/fitspo/etc pictures I see are of people who have much straighter physiques than me. I'll never have that, and don't particularly want to - I think it looks great on other people, but I love being curvier personally. Good luck with your abs!
@Ldemi3333 You're so awesome! I don't think there's any age where you should let things go that you care about or are important to your health. If you don't try, you're never going to achieve anything. With your attitude, I'm sure you'll look fantastic in your VS and heels by November!1 -
@VictoriaTuel - Well done for maintaining through all your recent stress with the move and losing a cm off your waist too!
Good luck on the new job - hope you love it.
@Brianneangel - great pic and a beautiful figure - good luck - you can do it.
@dubstepvideo - great post................." I hate it when women think like this!! I know its normal, but why do you have to be normal? You have only ca. 60 to 80 years on Earth....omg you will die after 60 to 80 times Christmas. What are you waiting for? You have to surround yourself with the people you adore. With fit people or people who want to be fit and are ready to give all for it. And no reading to the main forums. This could only depress you!!
Every woman on Earth could look like a bombshell if she tales action. It is not only the body that makes you a bombshell or your personal definition of the sexiest form of me, but also hhe hair the skin tje smile the clothes, the attitude. Today you have all the tools to look like a whooooooooo is that woman and feel like this. You only need google, amazon, a gym and some money. And the dedication to follow the requirements!
Pessimism is the worst killer of success ever".
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@princesstinyheart - photo-shopped or not - we are only using the photos for inspiration. A goal.
Find that "click" in the mind that says "I'll get as close as possible, because I am NOT stopping."
Maybe this will help......................
I have traveled through France for years since I was five - when I was 13, I needed some underwear and we went to a shop where I saw the most luxurious cami knickers with cream lace and really wanted them as there was nothing like that where I came from.
I spoke French but my Mum didn't. Mum wanted sensible stuff.
The lady said to me "you must learn that these are for when a women is happy with her weight - always use tight underwear to remind you to not eat too much................then you will not be enrobed with fat.
That word - ENROBED - always stayed with me.
They start early over there.
Lynne
Ps) Mum finally bought the cami knickers and I wore them to school until they fell apart.1 -
I'm only 5'3", so VS model isn't exactly my aspiration, but I definitely want to be strong and athletic and about 10-12 pounds leaner. I identify with how hard it is to find support to lose the weight when you're already technically in the healthy BMI range. It's nice to have the support of other people in the same boat. Ten pounds seems almost impossible to lose. This photo is just a reminder of how athletes and healthy people (even models) come in many shapes and sizes.5 -
Just don't set yourself up with unrealistic expectations. Most models...the highly successful ones...are genetic freaks of nature. Yes, you can work out to try to copy their body style, but for most of them, they hit the genetics lottery jackpot.1
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Hey everyone!!! I feel like I've missed a lot between moving and staring my first job. What did I miss? Seems heated in here?0
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Hey @plainpixxel I just moved too! How did your food plan and exercise regimen go during the move? Have you found a new nutirtionist where you are now or are you close enough to see your old one?
@midlomel1971 I think there's a difference between wanting to look like a VS/fitness/any model and wanting the look/feel of said model (at least to me there is). Like you said, everyone can't necessarily look like every model/model type, but I think you can emulate their look on your body and don't think there's anything inherently wrong with doing so. I also think a lot of it has to do with the feeling you're projecting, so that even if you don't physically 'match' a type, you can still look like them with how you feel and project yourself in a space.
@rositsky I'm sure you'll get there! Weight always comes off slower when you're already close to your goal and are eating healthy so you don't have water weight and such to lose, especially if you're trying to gain muscle at the same time, but all the women in that picture have done something like that, and I'm sure you can to. Also, every time I see that picture I always wonder what "adventure racing" is
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Oh wow I completely forgot about this group.
I reached my goal and I am currently reverse dieting into a bulk (my third). I can already feel how awesome this one is going to be and where it will take me.
Hope all is well with everyone!10 -
Oi, I guess I'm late to the party, haha. But yes, I'd love to lose the last few pounds of fat I'm carrying and focus on adding some muscle definition. Though I'd never qualify as a model with my 5'2
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@sardelsa Congrats on reaching your goal; you look great - good luck with your bulk too! Also I always love the leggings you're wearing in your pictures; they're so awesomely colorful1
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VictoriaTuel wrote: »@sardelsa Congrats on reaching your goal; you look great - good luck with your bulk too! Also I always love the leggings you're wearing in your pictures; they're so awesomely colorful
Thank you so much @VictoriaTuel ! Haha many of them are Victoria's Secret actually 0 -
I love going through this and seeing people's motivations! I've started the change to trying to get a bit of muscle and I found this picture and it's my current motivation:
https://i.pinimg.com/564x/e0/8e/ae/e08eaec41519d5feb083f8079d323a4b.jpg
I definitely have a long way to go to get anything close to that 1 -
Hello
Glad I found you guys!!
I decided this year I would be in my best shape ever when I turn 40. I got rid of (notice I do not loose weight I get rid of It... because we always look for stuff we lost but when you get rid of it, it’s gone and there is no going back) 20 lbs year to date and we are in the home stretch now. 4 and half weeks away from my birthday and 10 more to go. I will overshoot my goal so I have a buffer for Christmas. I will look like the women in fitness magazines when I am done.
I am hot. I am strong and I am in control!!
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Here is my goal!
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I think LDemi and I are the same generation, or close enough.
I think older women find it more difficult to maintain their ideal weight. Your life becomes more complicated with kids (sometimes grandkids), husbands, ailing in-laws, work and community. It is easy to put yourself last on the list of priorities. And, then, to wake up one morning, look at that body in a full length mirror, see the inevitably of gravity (and it happens to everyone) and just "let go."
For me, the key is remembering that aging is inevitable, but getting old is not. Not everyone is going to relate to Helen Mirren as a role model, but she's mine. She's 72, she isn't trying to look 52, and while she denies having any kind of fitness routine, you don't get that posture and those curves at 72 without making yourself a priority. She's a vital, happy woman who may not be a VS model, but she has maintained her sexuality.
I think women of my generation are acculturated to think that caring for yourself is "selfish". Having spent close to a decade caring for elderly relatives who suffered from the side effects of obesity, I think letting yourself go, requiring your loved ones to shuffle you back and forth to doctor's appointments, assisted living and nursing homes and then grieve after your too early death is more so. (That sounded harsh, but it is early, and I can't think of a kinder way to express this...so sorry if I offended anyone.)6 -
Hi everyone! I'm new here but think I have some of the same goals as some of you ladies
Currently I'm at a bmi of 20.8 (164 cm/5"4, 56kg/123.5 lbs) which is very normal, and whenever I say I'd like to lose some weight people can be super negative.
Earlier this year I dropped some weight down to 114 lbs and felt fantastic. I have a small build so although I'm not super short I feel the best at a low bmi for my height. My goal at the moment is to get back down to 114 lbs and see whether I can tone up a bit from there, keeping at the weight but losing fat and adding some muscle.
I am currently following a mix between 16:8 IF and 5:2 IF, and workout at least 6 days a week (mainly cardio (running/spinning) but weight lifting/resistance training 3 times a week). This is a new routine though as I got back from holiday a week ago so I'll try my best to stick with it!
Will be super great to share some motivation and support here! I hope I didn't join this thread towards the end of its lifetime!
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This group has been pretty quiet... I am bulking so my "model body" is going to be on hold (or in progress depending on how you want to look at it! haha)1
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Hi there! I think this group already reached the peak of it's activity, but people do stop in from time to time (I do when I notice the notifications).
My BMI is 19.8, as I'm 172cm (67.5in) and ~58kg/128lb. When I started following this thread, I had exactly the same BMI as you because I weighed ~61.5kg/135lb then!
At 61.5/135, my entire office would always comment on how little I was and how I needed some more fat, but almost all of them were at least twice my size and 4 inches shorter than me. Their frame of reference was skewed based on who they were surrounded by, and I was tiny to them even though I was at a fairly average healthy weight. However, when I hung out with some of my college friends, I suddenly wasn't excessively skinny anymore, I was just "normal" and no one ever mentioned anything about my weight. If people are being negative about your goals, I would look at their environment because maybe you already seem tiny to them and they can't understand why you'd have anything to lose. It sucks that they're not supportive, but that's why any group on MFP exists - so you can achieve your health/fitness/weight loss goals with likeminded people!
I'd say try to hang out more with people who are supportive or at least neutral about your goals and will be honest with you. You can get too skinny (I think I'm bordering on that if I lose anymore weight). While it's nice for people to always support you, sometimes you need a wake-up call, whether that's someone telling you your habits are making you unhealthily overweight or unhealthily underweight or something else entirely.
I have been trying to do more strength because as the weather changed I really only wanted to run or walk outdoors, and now that's it's gotten colder, I've been better about having a balance between cardio and strength. I don't fast, I actually eat almost all the time, but I think whatever strategy you can commit to long-term is the best for you! Good luck with all your goals and if you're that active I'm sure you'll see results
As a side note, I think BMI is a fairly good a measure of how much you should weigh - it's an average so most people will fall into it's healthy range when they're at healthy weights. I do have tiny friends who will always be underweight and larger friends who will always be overweight - but they're a rare exception, not a general case.
I wrote this right before bed so sorry for the rambling
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@sardelsa thanks for your comment. I'll check out some of the other threads in this group too. And I'd definitely call it "in progress"! Keep up the good work!
@VictoriaTuel Thanks for your post! You are absolutely right about surrounding ourselves with the right people as perspective really is everything! Too often people who are at an unhealthy weight or who are inactive (or both) negatively comment on the goals of those of us who want to live active healthy lifestyles. And I guess it is just because of their reference point, and not necessarily because they are intentionally nasty.
Good luck with upping your strength training sessions! It's getting warmer over here so getting my cardio in by going for a run outside is great, while I have to motivate myself a bit more to get my strength sessions in.
I also agree with your comment on BMI. The cases in which it is inaccurate really are exceptions and as a general rule for a person with an average build it works to get an idea of how healthy someone's weight to height ratio is. It's working for me anyway
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Danielle_Roodt wrote: »Hi everyone! I'm new here but think I have some of the same goals as some of you ladies
Currently I'm at a bmi of 20.8 (164 cm/5"4, 56kg/123.5 lbs) which is very normal, and whenever I say I'd like to lose some weight people can be super negative.
Earlier this year I dropped some weight down to 114 lbs and felt fantastic. I have a small build so although I'm not super short I feel the best at a low bmi for my height. My goal at the moment is to get back down to 114 lbs and see whether I can tone up a bit from there, keeping at the weight but losing fat and adding some muscle.
I am currently following a mix between 16:8 IF and 5:2 IF, and workout at least 6 days a week (mainly cardio (running/spinning) but weight lifting/resistance training 3 times a week). This is a new routine though as I got back from holiday a week ago so I'll try my best to stick with it!
Will be super great to share some motivation and support here! I hope I didn't join this thread towards the end of its lifetime!
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Hi Danielle! I'm certainly no doctor but 114 at your (our?) height I feel is perfectly fine. I'm also 5'4" (29 years old..) and have been every weight between 90 (as a teenager..) and 160 pounds. I think I looked fine and felt great at 114. I do recall getting below 110 in college and that wasn't a very good look for me haha... though I'm not really sure what my build is considered.
That being said your current weight is my ultimate goal weight! I just recently (FREAKING FINALLY) dropped into the "normal/healthy" bmi category but I still believe I look, and certainly feel, overweight.
I haven't been working out since I started working at my second job on 9/11/17 which has hindered the progress I made over the summer. I am going to try to start an at home workout routine on Monday. I took a few weeks off after I got married on 9/30. My honeymoon is coming up in about a month so I want to tone up. I hate working out at home but I don't have time to go to the gym
And I don't think this thread is at the end of it's lifetime I'll try to help keep it alive if you all do!
ETA I also am intermittent fasting! I try to stick to 18:6 but it flips to 16:8 some days (weekends mainly)
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This thread is NOT at the end of its lifeline! I need you guys!
My goals are funny - in the summer, I was focused on looking good in a bikini or shorty shorts, so I was lifting and loving the shape of my muscles. NOW I'm a lot more focused on the way my clothes fit, trying to get a little bit leaner so that I can get that long, thin line of my legs in skinny jeans and heeled boots. Plus, with cooler (ha!) weather, I'm running more, lifting less.
Either way, I'm like you, @Danielle_Roodt - on my frame, a lower BMI suits me. The difference in my shape is subtle, and I'm probably the only one who sees it, but I definitely notice the way I look in my wardrobe from season to season.
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Sorry I haven't been more active on here. It's been flood, vacation, illness, etc. Things are starting to calm down now however. I still haven't leaned out any from the start of this thread. Like most of you, I'm still leaner than most people my age but I have some troublesome spots I'd like to work on. I'm too lazy (and scared) to do it, but I tell ya, I'm sometimes tempted just to get lipo. LOL. When I drop enough fat to get rid of the lower belly fat, my upper body looks terrible with bones poking out everywhere. I'm finally at a spot where my upper body looks decent, but then I have a handful of fat below my belly button that just drives me crazy.0
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mom23mangos wrote: »I'm finally at a spot where my upper body looks decent, but then I have a handful of fat below my belly button that just drives me crazy.
This is exactly the complaint I always have! I can't seem to make it budge the top half of my stomach looks toned but the bottom half doesn't
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Have you run bulk cycles @mom23mangos ? I can't remember. But building muscle all over can help.. as when you lose fat there isn't just bone poking through and the muscle is able to give more shape to the problem areas. To an extent of course, as genetics can get in the way. I am dealing with the same issue on the lower half of my body (grrr banana rolls). Let's hope multiple bulk cycles and building up the glutes and hammies can help even more.
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@sardelsa, I haven't really. That's probably where I'm headed. I guess you could say I was on a year long slow bulk. I've put on about 5lbs over the past year and I'd say it's probably 1-2lbs muscle. I just suck at cutting, so I'm hesitant. I mean, I can actually lose fat pretty easily but I have to be mentally there and I haven't been. I've been semi-OK with the looking pretty good, eating what I want vs. looking shredded and obsessing over food. Doesn't stop me from complaining though! LOL
I'm thinking I'd have to put on a lot of muscle to really make a difference on my upper body. I have a big rib cage and it flares out, so ribs are visible at just about any weight. I have NO boobs, and while I've managed to build my pecs up quite a bit, the sternum still shows through when my BF drops. There may be a point I guess when the pecs are built up enough to not. When I had my dexa/bodpod scans last year, my upper body was only 7.5% BF, while my lower was still 25%. It's really hard to work with that big of a ratio.
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@mom23mangos even when I weighed 72.5kg/160lbs the bones on my upper middle chest were still visible; I just don't store any fat on my upper torso and very little on my lower torso (which I guess is healthier than the opposite!). I just deal with it now, but it used to bother me more. On the plus side, I don't get the stubborn handful of belly fat - my thighs will hold on for much longer than anything else!
I think it's interesting that we both have the same bone protrusion issue with very different body types - I'm pretty curvy with a tiny upper body and rib cage which is why my bones show. My boobs are the only reason you can't see my bones all the way down my chest!1 -
VictoriaTuel wrote: »@mom23mangos even when I weighed 72.5kg/160lbs the bones on my upper middle chest were still visible; I just don't store any fat on my upper torso and very little on my lower torso (which I guess is healthier than the opposite!). I just deal with it now, but it used to bother me more. On the plus side, I don't get the stubborn handful of belly fat - my thighs will hold on for much longer than anything else!
I think it's interesting that we both have the same bone protrusion issue with very different body types - I'm pretty curvy with a tiny upper body and rib cage which is why my bones show. My boobs are the only reason you can't see my bones all the way down my chest!
wow , are you my twin? lol. I am 172cm. Highest weight was 72kg. Now I am 57-59kg (125-130lbs) and my body looks exactly as you described1 -
@mfpmishka I could be lol! I just measured for the first time in about a month and I'm now 58.5kg (129lb) and 89-61-97cm (35-24-38.5in) which I'm super excited about! I didn't think I could trim my waist anymore after I got it to 63/64cm. I don't think i'll get down to 57kg though - I'd have to lose my limited amount of muscle to get there and I wouldn't like that as much.1
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Just wanted to say hey and that this thread is hella motivating! Totally in alignment with my current goals. I've been involved in varying fitness related activities since the age of 13 and I'm now 34. I was super fit and svelt 5 years ago, but depression from my mom's passing of cancer, parenting stress, being involved in a few toxic relationships and now dealing with a blood clot in my shoulder along with 4 bilateral acute pulmonary embolisms (Paget-Schroetter syndrome, waiting for rib resection surgery) has me battling the bulge due to limited energy, mobility issues and emotional eating (nothing extreme but I call it like it is). I started up on here again looking for like minded fitness friends with similar goals so I can get motivated again.
My aim is to achieve a VS model type of fitness physique prior to surgery (using the lightest weights possible because I'm not supposed to do a whack of different movements that worsen the situation.
I refuse to end up having to buy a whole new wardrobe because of being cooped up recovering during winter. After my shoulder is healed I may do a proper bulk through spring and then get back into my beloved endurance training. Anyways, nice to meet you guys. Friends me if you please. 3 -
@gogogadgette I love the word svelte, I'm so happy you used it! I feel like it's the perfect word for this thread. You have a crazy amount of things inhibiting your ability to exercise, so props to you for not letting that stand in the way of your fitness goals!
Light weights can be more effective than heavy weights if you use them appropriately, and I'm sure your doctors or trainers would know exercises to both help with any potential complications your surgery could cause and get you the body you want. I hope everything from your surgery to your relationships to your workouts go great with as few snags as possible!1
