Well, I think it can be good, if used in a healthy way. If you have a goal to lose weight, and looking at other women who have nice bodies inspires you to do that, that's okay.
But, you have to be realistic. You need to understand that all woman have different body types, so your body might not ever look like (random celebrity or whoever) and to not have unrealistic expectations for yourself or beat yourself up for not looking that way. Further, you need to have the ability to understand what a healthy body looks like and what an unhealthy body looks like. Striving to look underweight is not healthy.
The problem most people have with "thinspiration" is that it's more than often associated with the pro-ana community. These communities are filled with women (and sometimes men) who are using unhealthy means in attempt to achieve an unhealthy body.
While I hate the term "thinspiration" because of the negative connotation it has attached to it, but I do have things that inspire me to lose weight or be healthy. Sometimes it's looking at someone whose body I admire, but I find seeing someone else's success with weight loss even more inspiring that that (for example, a youtube video/picture montage that shows a real person who went from say, a size 18 to a size 8).
I love youtube and just search 'thinspo' 'thinspiration' or 'pro ana' (you don't have to have an ED to admire skinny girls).
I spent hours sometimes just browsing videos. Makes me work harder when I diet.
Good luck.
I'm not really sure. A few minutes on google revealed a couple of pictures. Some of the women in those pictures looked pretty good, and I have to admit, attractive, but the vast majority looked like they were starving, and definitely unhealthy.
There is definitely a difference between being slim/slender/whatever, and being genuinely skinny. Staying at a healthy weight is admirable, but the majority of the 'thinspo' I could find seems to have left that goal behind, and made being as skinny as possible a goal in itself, setting a standard that can at best be described as unhealthy, and are essentially advocating an eating disorder.
For all this talk about, and admiration of, self control it's ironic and sad to see how these girls are completely unaware of the disease that is controlling them.
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it's sick that girls are trying to make themselves that thin. it's not something you should aspire to
Xanga has a lot
whats thinspo
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