Thinspiration a dangerous pursuit
Categories: Womens Health, Diet & Weight Loss
Staying healthy makes me inspired. Does staying thin, then, make me thinspired? To some degree, I guess it does. I eat right, exercise right, minimize stress, sleep enough, and do all I can to stay healthy, which also happens to help me stay thin. Not skinny. Not bony. Not skeletal. Just more thin than thick, more fit than fat.Thinspiration is a buzz word used by youngish girls who strive to be skinny, anorexic even. It's a topic Blair at Gettysburg College addresses over at College Candy and what she finds is really quite disturbing. Scour the internet, she says, and you're bound to land at all sorts of anorexia blogs, pro-anorexia websites, and YouTube videos chalk full of crazy dieting tactics and images of girls whose bodies are wasting away. One 24-year-old even features on her website a thinspiration page, wallpapered with skinny-girl photos that mostly give me a sick feeling in my gut and make me realize I'm not all that thinspired after all. Nope. Inspired is what I am -- inspired to be healthy and happy in all of my 135-pound glory.
And you? Are you inspired -- or thinspired?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
kjh 7-13-2008 @ 4:25PM
I am disgusted by this website. Thank you for letting people know that this is going on!!!!
One suggestion, though -- would you consider taking off the actual website? As sick as it is, some people see these links and they serve as triggers. As someone who was on the verge of disordered eating and has a cousin who suffered full-blown anorexia, I know that (although unntentional) the link to the site could be used for more bad than good.
Peace :-)
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Roshena 7-14-2008 @ 9:55AM
I'm inspired. I feel that that photo is kind of sick. I just want to be healthy and FIT. I use to say I wanted to be skinny and thin. But now I see just how unhealthy some of those thoughts can lead to. I now say that I want to be healthy insteady of skinny and FIT instead of thin.
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Nova11 7-14-2008 @ 2:40PM
I have never aspired to be "thin"....only healthy. I have brought healthy habits into my household(thanks in part to thatsfit!) and my husband is now following suit....my kids too! As much as I want to get rid of a few pounds, I will maintain my curves.
That picture is awful....she just looks super hungry.
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