Quote Originally Posted by meridian View Post
One word... yuck

I'll take my curves over her boney butt any day
Nice curves, meridian! I'd take those arms over the supermodel's any day!

It's interesting to see this thread now. About a year and a half ago we had to cut our costs way down in order to move, change jobs, buy a house in a more expensive real estate market, etc. One of the costs I cut was buying magazines each month - FitnessRx, Oxygen and YogaJournal. A few weeks ago, we stopped by the magazine rack and I took a look in the mags I used to buy. I was shocked at how skinny the models all were! The fitness magazines, back when I used to buy them, used to have pictures of women who had muscles! The last magazine I looked through I couldn't believe any of them could sustain a physical effort for any length of time. I mean, really, YogaJournal would typically have had the skinnier models of the three magazines. I'm happy to say they haven't seemed to change their standard, but it seems so strange for the YJ models to seem to be bulkier and more muscular than the fitness models!

And this couldn't be at a worse time for me. I admit I am influenced by images of women - I often wonder how I compare, whether I could wear that, etc.... So now, while I'm forced to not exercise intently, where my food intake is completely messed up (and therefore I spend a good deal of time eating things I can eat that aren't necessarily healthy - can anyone say Pamela's chocolate brownies?), so my body is definitely *not* in the shape it was or where I'd like it to be, these images are really confidence eroding. *sigh* Not the super model - she's shockingly thin; but the fitness ones are a drag for me right now.

Hugs and butterflies, everyone,
~T~