nil desperandum

justine-the-guillotine:

crissfit:

margaretmack:

Weight loss is a weird thing, because when your goal weight is far away you have this model mentality about being skinny, and then once you get there, you’ve still got the same body type you had before, its just…smaller.

The further I get from the biggest I was, its harder to remember how far I’ve come, and therefore easier to get discouraged about my shape, if that makes any sense. Not to say I don’t think I’m a total babe at least like, 95% of the time, but occasionally I fall victim to the constant onslaught of images of tiny tiny women that we’re all subjected to daily.

Maintenance is a weird place to be in, because even though I could go down a bit, and could tone up a bit (and am hoping to do so) not much is going to change from here as far as overall size and shape goes. Which is weird and hard to wrap my brain around. It’s not always the easiest to feel 100% okay with being on the curvier end of healthy. 

I’ve spent this morning looking at old photos of myself, there arent a ton of me at my biggest (because I was the saddest ever and avoided cameras like the plague) but I scrounged up some before and after pictures, and I’m gonna post em here, because I think its good to remind myself of where I’ve been, and how far I’ve come, especially on days where I’m feeling a bit discouraged. Because at the end of the day, I’m healthier and happier than ever, and a few photos of skinny ladies on tumblr shouldnt take that away from me.  

“Weight loss is a weird thing, because when your goal weight is far away you have this model mentality about being skinny, and then once you get there, you’ve still got the same body type you had before, its just…smaller.”

Yes, this so much! You get this picture of what you want to be, thinking weight loss will yield results similar to it, only you end up looking just like you did before, only smaller. Where my fat is distributed is still the same. The proportions are the same. It takes a lot of mental strength to tell yourself to be rational. 

Unrelated, but you are a fox.

This is an important message that I feel needs to be reiterated. Losing weight will not make your body type change, especially if you do it in a healthy way. “you end up looking just like you did before, only smaller. Where my fat is distributed is still the same. The proportions are the same.” My belly will always look the way it does, it’s just smaller than it used to be. My weight will always proportion itself oddly around my hips to make jeans not be able to button, causing me to choose whether to buy the pair that fits my legs and not button them, or buy the pair that buttons but it’s a little loose every where else.

And this is all okay.

Reblog and spread. Every girl needs to realize and understand this. I wish I had sooner.