Do you agree with this quote?

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  • Missevanston
    Missevanston Posts: 361 Member
    I think a lot of people are hung up on the word 'skinny'. I am a big girl and therefore, will never be skinny, but I am so much more fit and healthy in general!

    I agree with the notion that there are few foods that can make one feel as good as the accomplishment of losing the fat, ugly unhealthy eating habits of old, and seeing the scale move in the right direction! :bigsmile:
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    Anyhow, I'm more likely to say 'Life is too short to not enjoy the occasional cupcake' or 'Being fit and strong takes the right fuel'.

    THIS!

    I think of all this as a road trip. I'm on the road to improved health. I don't need to get from point A to point B in the shortest possible time frame. Just like when you're taking a drive somewhere, sometimes you have the best time when you get lost a little on the way and take a roundabout way of getting there. A detour.

    This weekend, my detour included a lot of jello shots. My life is a lot more fun with those detours than if I was a stick in the mud saying, "I can't afford the calories."
  • SugarDiva
    SugarDiva Posts: 403 Member
    I might be the odd one out here but actually, yes, I do agree with it. I'm not where I'd like to be yet, but I sure as hell feel a lot better when I can fit into normal sized clothes at a normal store than I do when I eat cake. So, yeah I agree with it.. it's my moto and it works for me...
  • sugarbomb83
    sugarbomb83 Posts: 67 Member
    Some of you are taking this quote to the extreme :) I am by no means anorexic.

    Saturday when I ate steak, chicken, ribs, brisket, ham, a hot dog, rice & beans, cornbread, coleslaw, chips & dip, potato salad, pasta salad, rum cake, marble cake, a cookie, and a brownie it wasn't worth the 1lb I gained.

    When I weighed 116 lb last year I considered myself slim or "skinny" but I was also muscular and healthy and had a ton of energy and slept really well. Now my knees and back hurt and I always feel tired. I HAVE to get these 10 lb off and think before I eat. To me this quote is about making better choices so I can get back to where I was. Did the rum cake, marble cake, cookie, and brownie taste good? Of course! Was it worth it? Probably not. I should have just had 1 of the 4.
  • VeganGal84
    VeganGal84 Posts: 938 Member
    I hate that quote, mostly because I used it to "help" with my disordered eating years ago.
  • rouxinol115
    rouxinol115 Posts: 1 Member
    Absolutely not. Some of you's haven't heard of tortilla chips.
  • LiveOnceBeHappy
    LiveOnceBeHappy Posts: 448 Member
    I do make a conscious decision to not eat something because I don't want to go over my calorie goal for the day. Other days, I decide to go over on purpose, knowing I could gain 0.5 pounds by doing so. Generally speaking, I'd rather be thin (and, hopefully, more healthy) than eat the chocolate cake.
  • LaBellaHarris
    LaBellaHarris Posts: 63 Member
    Skinnyfat kids like me know that this isn't true, because being skinny still feels like being out of breath after taking the stairs😜
  • ArtsieSarah
    ArtsieSarah Posts: 129 Member
    I think the quote is toxic AF, it doesn’t promote a healthy relationship with food. It promotes restriction which leads to a variety of eating disorders. 🥲
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    This is a pretty terrible old thread from 2011. I wonder if a spammer (since deleted) woke it up?

    If I compared a minute or few of eating my favorite calorie-dense thing to the same minute or few of being thin, the food might win. That's not how it works, though.

    Reaching and maintaining a healthy weight is about balancing between momentary pleasure, and long-term well-being, getting the sensible amount of each. The quote is snappy, maybe cute, but useless in that life-balance context, IMO.
  • SilverSage1
    SilverSage1 Posts: 54 Member
    That quote is from an old piece of Weight Watchers literature in the 1990s! I’m surprised to see it resurrected here.
  • GrizzledSquirrel
    GrizzledSquirrel Posts: 120 Member
    I take the points about pro-anorexia above, but as somebody who has never frequented those websites or suffered with those challenges, my personal experience of this phrase simply represents the constant struggle between fighting the urge for instant gratification (e.g. a doughnut) and achieving long-term results (fitting into the lovely clothes currently sitting dormant in my wardrobe).

    Most long-term goals require some need to sacrifice immediate pleasures - and this helps to project me to a future place which is so happy to have made the decisions I did.

    The word “skinny” is irrelevant in my interpretation - it just represents whatever weight-loss goal I have set myself.

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