Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels

I have seen it used around here very positively i think :]

or another:

I eat boring because I want an exciting body

I think the problem is the word skinny, I want to be thin, fit, healthy, but skinny just doesnt give quite the same feeling.

Because it is a tagline for anorexics.

As someone with an eating disorder I use to hate it while I was in recovery because it sounds really ill.

It doesn't say "thin" or "healthy" it says "skinny".

Skinny is more than thin. Skinny is usually unhealthy (unless you have an amazing metabolism and amazing genes)... skinny reminds me of high fashion models, crazy diets and anorexia. When I was IP we didn't wanted to be thin, we wanted to be skinny.

And for most of the mentally healthy people, a lot of things taste better than being skinny. Eating well, having a healthy body, having energy, kissing, and being happy, for example.

Also, the sentence was popularized by a supermodel who is related to drugs, anorexia and the 90s “heroin chic” and it’s used by a lot of pro-anorexia pages and eating disordered girls and boys.

I think that it could possibly be positive and motivating, but it does seem to imply that good tasting food and skinny are mutually exclusive, which isn't exactly a healthy approach. Healthy food can taste amazing, unhealthy food can taste amazing, and there should be no reason that you can't eat unhealthy food occasionally and in appropriate serving sizes if it doesn't cause any long-term harm.

But of course if you're eating in addition to what you need just for the taste, it's a temporary enjoyment. When you love how you look, that lasts much longer. That's not really a "how skinny feels" thing, though, that's a how healthy and confidence feels thing. If that's how you use the word skinny, then rock that. But not everyone can be healthy at a weight that would make them "skinny", and that's where this can become a sick motto. I'd personally opt for something that has to do with my self confidence and health and getting to that point by enjoying the process, including the meals I eat.

I feel like the meaning of the quote can be turned positive.. so maybe a different saying with the meaning you're describing.
The original statement is one of restricting to be thin.. Which can be taken the wrong way. I think it should be something different. Something about being healthy rather than thin, and not so blatantly implying restriction.

I was skinny the first 25 years of my life, and hated it. No one should aspire to be skinny. So it bugs me on that level. Skinny isn't healthy.

And it implies that you can't have delicious food... that yummy food is a no-no. It's not! You can eat whatever you want to eat, if you're willing to put in the work to make it fit. I've had pizza - half of a thick crust pie, not one tiny slice of a thin crust cracker - at least once a week every week for the last 8 months. There's absolutely no reason to deny yourself the foods you love.

To be perfectly honest, if the only choice was to eat what I want and be a little hefty, or eat bunny food and be thin, I'd be hefty. In fact, that's what I was until I learned through MFP how to eat properly. I thought the options were to severely limit my food intake and be thin, or eat what I want and comfortably maintain a few extra pounds.

Thankfully, I learned that I don't have to give anything up. I learned that any other time I tried to lose weight, I did it wrong and didn't eat enough food, and that's why my progress was so bad and I felt like poop the whole time. Now I know I can have my cake and eat it too, with a scoop of ice cream on the side.

I guess it comes across as arrogant- on many levels.

You can have a pretty face too, but if someone walked around saying, "Nothing feels as good as being pretty like me..."
I guess- even if it was true- perhaps they ARE pretty- that it's arrogant
if THEY'RE the ones saying it.


Just my opinion

You got 'soo fat' because you went up to a size 4? Really?

You got 'soo fat' because you went up to a size 4? Really?

that's how it felt at the time... i thought I was turning into a cow... oh what I'd give to be that "fat" again lol

I totally understand that one! I gained 5kg after quitting smoking and felt, to use Holly Golightly's words, like 'the queen of the pig people', even though I was technically still within healthy range.

Quite right. God, I wish I'd spent less time in high school worrying about how 'fat' I was, and more time prancing about in bikinis and shorts!

You got 'soo fat' because you went up to a size 4? Really?

that's how it felt at the time... i thought I was turning into a cow... oh what I'd give to be that "fat" again lol

This is why someone needs to invent a sarcasm font....... I know EXACTLY what you're saying....
my "goal" is to back into the size I was in HS, when I was convinced I was "FAT."
I'm shooting for healthy- and that'll be based on my next blood work, BMI and Body Fat %....
THEN, I'll look and see what the scale says, and the what the sizes of my clothing end up being

Yeah I thought I was fat in hs too -- and now I actually think if I weigh what I weighed then it might be too thin for my body now. I have more muscle and the way my body carries weight is different. I'd say right now I look maybe 15 pounds heavier than I did in HS (at least based on my recollection) but I am actually 45 pounds heavier.

Something for you to consider as well - our bodies change as we age and you will probably end up looking better at a heavier weight now than you did at that lighter weight then.