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10+ Before-And-After Photos Of” Weight Loss” Reveal The Biggest Lie Behind Them

Scrolling through Instagram could get pretty depressing when “youre starting” comparing yourselves to bikini models with perfect bodies. But now, bloggers and fitness models are had confirmed that the pics we find online are not what we suppose – the models in the pics most likely look like that merely 1% of the time.

Bloggers and fitness models from all over are posting what may look like body transformation photos, but truly are pics taken simply seconds apart! Every single photo promotes body positivity and reveals that posture, lighting, and slants could change more than you think. Keep on scrolling to see the shocking differences, and feel free to adds your own pics to the list!

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# 1 Me 1% Of The Time VS 99% Of The Time. Taken Just Seconds Apart

# 2 My 3 Second Transformation!

# 3 Same Girl. Different Angles

# 4 Just A Same Girl, Same Day, Different Pose Reminder That Our Bodies Look Different In Different Angles And That It’s Perfectly Ok, Normal And Natural

# 5 Just 2 Minutes After!

# 6 These Photos Were Taken 2 Minutes Apart! Don’t Stress About The Way Your Body Looks In Certain Positions

# 7 Same Girl, Same Day, Same Time

# 8 30 Seconds Transformation Photo

# 9 My 30 Second Transformation. I’ve Had 3 Beautiful Newborns …

#10 These Two Photos Are 12 Hours Apart, Left Before Bed And Right When I Woke Up

#12 This Is Me Standing Normally, Not Pushing My Stomach Out Vs Flexing

#13 Neither Of These Pics Have Been Edited. They Were Taken About 30 Seconds Apart

#14 There Was Only 3 Minute Between These Photos, I Just Changed The Lighting, Did My Hair, Put On Undies That Flattered Me And Changed My Pose

#15 Standing Relaxed On The Left Vs Sucked In, Pulled Up My Gasps, Pushed My Hips Back And Stood With My Legs Apart To Dedicate Myself A Thigh Gap

#16 How My Body Looks When I’m Relaxed And When I’m Posing. It Is So Easy To Manipulate

#17 Ahh The Difference A Flattering Pose Can Make

#18 20 Hour Transformation

#19 These Were Taken A Few Seconds Apart

#20 I Took These Seconds Apart. On The Left I’m Flexing Pretty Hard And On The Right I’m Not Even Pushing Out, I’m Just Relaxed

#22 The Photo On The Right Isn’t Edited At All, But Just From The Way I’m Standing, I’ve Managed To Change The Way My Body Looks Quite Dramatically

#23 Pics Are All About Good Lighting And Angles

#24 These Pics Were Taken Seconds Apart

#25 My Booty From Its Normal Straight Leg Standing Position Vs A Posed Booty Pop Position

#26 These Pics Were Taken Second Apart This Morning

#27 This Is A 30 Seconds Before And After Photo

#28 30 Second Transformation

#29 Didn’t Think It Would Be This Much Of A Difference!

#30 Be Carefull

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#31 Be Carefull

#32 Wesh

#33 These Pics Were Taken Seconds Apart

It’s Time To Stop Thinking About Weight Loss As A Fairy Tale Ending

Lizzie logs her days in listings. Four fluid ounces of alcohol, 12 almonds, one serving of quinoa. When she’s not pouring herself glasses of dry white wine, carefully tallying the calories in a measuring cup, she likes to watch Tv, namely “America’s Next Top Model, ” and anything cooking-related. She “watches the Food Network with a legal pad on her lap, taking notes for decadent snacks […] she’ll never make.”

The 28 -year-old protagonist of Mona Awad’s new novel 13 Ways of Seeming at a Fat Girl doesn’t sound like someone who’d battle from body image issues. She has thick, dark hair and porcelain skin. Her curves fit neatly into society’s rigid beauty criteria, and into the tight black outfits she wears for every occasion.

But her figure is the result of militant discipline — veggie patties, handfuls of protein and bi-monthly enchilada splurges sculpt her once-overweight figure into the body she longed for growing up. And although she’s finally met her goal weight, Elizabeth’s fixation on food hasn’t waned. Her mood, and her self-esteem, are still wrapped up in her calorie uptake. Cheat days bring her temporary happiness, followed by immense remorse. And her husband, Tom, wearies of food-centric habits, which get in the way of their once-satiating relationship.

“So much of Lizzie’s personality and so much of her conflict with her body, and so much of her narrative is bound up in how she sees herself and how others watch her, ” Awad said in an interview with The Huffington Post. In writing the book, she wanted to work against the idea that “fat” is a physical state that can change once pounds are shed. Instead, Awad tells, weight is “a state of mind more than anything else, and it’s a hard one to break away from, a hard one to step out of.”

This idea is at odds with the countless weight narratives proliferated on reality TV presents and publication encompass. Shedding pounds is equated to winning — an end goal rather than a step in some individual’s journey toward accepting and loving their bodies.

So often the narrative around transformation is that it yields a happy aiming, its like a fairy tale, and all is well in the end. Once youve changed your body, thats it, youre happy.

“So often the narrative around transformation is that it yields a happy aiming, it’s like a fairy tale, and all is well in the end, ” Awad said. “Once you’ve changed your body, that’s it, you’re happy.”

And Awad knows a thing or two about fairy tale. She wrote a dissertation on the topic while earning her master’s in English literature.

“I’ve always been fascinated by fairy tale, in part because I think they’re so interesting in the way they play out our anxieties and longings, and in the way that the transformation is possible and very wondrous, ” Awad said. “And I think that there’s something about the culture around body image that is creating the same kind of narrative, but in fairy tales it’s quite muddy. When the Little Mermaid becomes a woman, when she loses her fish tail, in Hans Christian Andersen’s version, every step hurts. There’s still ache. It’s not happy.”

Awad likens this bumpy transition to her own struggle with body image, and the comparing is apparent in her protagonist, Lizzie. Before she reluctantly sheds pounds, favoring an at-home gym over homemade banana bread, she relates her love-hate — but mostly hate-hate — relationship with dressing rooms, a mythologized place where transformations can occur.

“In the dressing room she continually brings with her this hope. It’s never gonna go away totally. She has to go in there, we all have to go into the dressing room, we all have to cloak our bodies, we have no choice, ” Awad told. “But there’s this hope that when she comes out of the dressing room she’ll be changed. That the new dress or whatever is going to perform this kind of magic.”

The nuance Awad adds to conceptions of weight and body image is applied also to her realizations of female friendships. Lizzie’s their relations with other women are at once petty and kind, jealous and admiring.

“I do think that body image can often come between girls. It can be the subtext in a friendship, it can shape the style you might hang out with your friend, the style you might go shopping with your friend, the style you might have lunch with your friend, ” Awad said. “The way you feel about your body when you’re standing next to your friend might change merely by virtue of the fact that you’re standing next to her. What does that do to the quality of our friendships, the fact that girls are mirrors for one another? I genuinely wanted to tap into that.”

In doing so, Awad constructs a painful scene between Lizzie and a remarkably thin coworker, whom she secretly refers to as Itsy Bisty. The two often get lunch together, and Itsy Bitsy downs carbs while Lizzie laments wilted salad foliages. Discussing their relationship with another friend, Lizzie observes that her co-worker might just be her friend because of their weight change. True to its cynical tone, the chapter is titled “The Girl I Hate.”

“I am interested in the ways that we’re cruel to one another because of our bodies, ” Awad said. But, she added, what makes a story lovely is when it also explores “the moments when we’re tender with one another, in spite of our conflicted feelings.”

The plus-size community is shattering stereotypes about fitness

There are over 27 millionphotostagged #fitspo on Instagram. Most of them, like a lot of “fitness inspiration” on the Internet, depict slender girls dressed in Lululemon designs, flawlessly illuminated by natural lighting spilling onto their yoga mats. Men bearing oiled up, six-pack abs and before/ after photos of alleged weight loss are also popular images in this theme.

On Instagram, Pinterest, or other visual-based social media outlets, #fitspo pics are meant to inspire others to achieve their health and fitness aims. But what if your stomach will never be flat , no matter how many crunches you do? What if your yoga selfies garner more comments about how big you are rather than how well you just executed crow pose?

Meet the plus-size #fitspo community, a loose collecting of fitness fans who are challenging stereotypes and shaping what it means to be fit by posting photos of themselves living healthy and active lifestyles. We may not ensure manyplus size bodies on adsand mainstream media, but social media is flooded with images of women celebrating all shapes and sizes under a slew of hashtags, like #CelebrateMySize and #EffYourBeautyStandards.

Plus-size # fitspo stars post pics and videos of themselves doing the exact same things other #fitspo folks do: eating clean, whole foods; drinking green juices; twisting their bodies in a difficult yoga pose; and sweating it out on an afternoon jog. Oftentimes, the caption to these pics doublings as a body-positive pep talknot “Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels” but “Honor my curves.”

Priorities. #PSPfit #pspfit365

A photo posted by CeCe Olisa (@ ceceolisa) on Jan 20, 2016 at 9:52 am PST

“It’s empowering when someone who looks like you does what you wishes to do, ” fitness and lifestyle blogger CeCe Olisa told the Daily Dot. “It constructs it seem more attainable.” Two years ago, Olisa began blogging about her healthy lifestyle journey and launched the hashtag #PSPfit, named after her blog Plus Size Princess. Today more than 10,000 Instagrammers have use the hashtag, prompting her to create a @PSPfitaccount.

After a few years of lifestyle blogging, Olisa decides whether to document her transition from preoccupying over weight loss to embracing her size on her website. “I started it as a place to be open, honest, and transparent as a plus-size both women and what that looked liketo date, to shop, to go to places, to fall in love and live in New York, ” Olisa told. Readers took to it. She said she has a six-figure monthly reaching on her blog and almost 20,000 adherents onInstagramandYouTube.

The first time Olisa heard she was overweight was in her doctors office as an 11 – or 12 year-old girl. Feeling judged and ashamed, she tried fad diet and starved herself, merely to binge eat in the evenings. “My life now is about unravelling a lot of the disruptive behaviors that Ive had and espousing who I am, ” she said. A few years after she wasdiagnosed with polycystic ovarian syndrome, an endocrine system ailment. If untreated, the condition can lead to heart disease and diabetes.

When Olisa began openly discussing her health in her blog, she found that others closely related to a hardship she had coped with privately for so long. “Women feeling like they were alone in that and then seeing someone who is living a healthy lifestyle and just trying to balance all that out is really powerful, ” Olisa told. “I get emails every day from girls telling those things.”

You guys got me nominated for a @shortyaward. I mean, I know I’m supposed to be like “oh my god, I’m so excited and proud and blah blah blah” but all I can think is how fucking grateful I am for each of you. Truly. At the end of the day, all media hoopla aside, I’m simply a femme from Durham County by way of the Gate City, practising her yoga under the gaze of an over protective pitbull and a Garfield-style Tabby cat. I began teaching because so many of you guys asked for my presence in your lives. I am astounded by the power of social media- really and truly. Even if we’ve never fulfilled or never meet in the future, and even if this arrives off as the flakiest piling of bullshit you’ve ever read, please know this fact- I am grateful for you. Yes, you. Even if you think my belly is repugnant and you’re only here because one of your friends tagged you, please hear me-I am grateful for you. I cannot tell you what an impact you’ve had on my life. If you want to vote for me, click the link in my Instagram header- but, to be honest, I’m not really hunting for referendums. I’m only delighted to see that fat people are finally standing on their own two feet. Thank you for being part of that mission. ALSO MAD LOVE TO EVERYONE WHO IS BEING SO NICE TO ME ON TWITTER I LITERALLY CANT EVEN WITH YOU GUYS. A #crowpose grows in Brooklyn- thank you, @lydiahudgens, for get my ass out in the middle of traffic practicing an #armbalance. Sports bra- @ purelimesport Top- @ k.deer Leggings- @maleshactivewear Fingers+ Toes- @yogapaws Photo by @lydiahudgens EDIT- @themamaamma YAS I AM FROM GREENSBORO GUILFORD COUNTY THE GATE CITY BEST CITY IN THE WORLD. Tarheel born and bred, wouldn’t trade it for anything- I am damn proud of my Southern roots .

A photo posted by Jessamyn (@ mynameisjessamyn) on Jan 19, 2016 at 6:51 pm PST

Another star of the plus-size #fitspo world is yoga instructor and body-positive proponent Jessamyn Stanley, who was nominated for a Shorty Award this year in the Healthy Living category. Visibility is the most important part of the body positivity motion, she said, so she utilizes her body to put an end to skinny fitness stereotypes. Stanley posts images of herself practising yoga to her 147,000 followers on Instagram and has dozens of YouTube videos where she presents off her yoga moves.

“I think theres been major improvement, ” Stanley said. “If social media is any indicator, were definitely heading in the right direction.”

Fans can also purchase guided yoga videos from herEveryBody Yoga scheme. As Stanley explains on Cody, the site which sells her videos, “I’m familiar with the difficulties that come with practicing in a larger body, and Ive designed these workouts and this series to move at a comfy pace, but to also be challenging regardless of your age, gender, experience or body size.” She believes, as she explains on the page for her beginner yoga class, “Larger-bodied people are just as capable of moving freely as a smaller-bodied person, and I believe that it is so important to assures a larger-bodied person completing postures and moving freely with confidence.”

This belief sums up the motivation for plus-size #fitspo stars. “Healthy curves at every sizing is my motto and is really important, ” Olisa explained. “Loving your body and healthy living is the most empowering thing you can do and everything else will flow through that.” As people obsessively surf online for the most recent health fads and trendy workout routines, body-positive leaders remind us what the movement is truly about: adoption and self-love.

Photo via CeCe Olisa

The wedding industry dismisses plus-size brides, but this blogger doesn’t

When the Scottish blogger behind Lolly Likes Fatshiongot engaged last February, she suspected that as a plus-size bride, she’d have trouble receiving marriage inspiration. And she was right.

“Google ‘plus bride/ fat bride’ and most of the photos that come up are fat gags, ” Lolly told the Daily Dot. “Trying to find actual plus-size bride photos for inspiration was not easy … It is not news that plus/ fat people get married, so why was it so hard to find photos of them? “

Eventually, she decided to take matters into her own hands: Lolly reached out to her followers and social networks, calling for other plus-size brides( and bridegrooms) to share their bridal photos and tales online. In Nov. 2015, she launched her “1 05 Fat/ Plus Bride/ Groom Photos” series with a blog post and YouTube video featuring the images she received.

Every week on “Wedding Wednesday, ” she publishes a profile of a different plus-size couple( opposite-sex couples, but same-sex couples as well) about their nuptials. Each coupleshares their typical romantic, how-we-met narrative, along with details on where and how they found wedding attire in different sizes. Just as Lolly expected, similar sentiments echo from many of the brides and bridegrooms 😛 TAGEND

‘”I did feel a lot of pressure to lose weight from those around me. People were always asking me what diet I was on, presuming I was ‘shredding for the wedding.'”

“I had a lot of anxiety growing up about receiving a nice, formal garment for such an occasion.”

“Because I was plus-sized, I knew my dress shopping experience wouldn’t be what I dreamed of as a little girl. I love the dress I got, but I definitely would say I resolved because I knew it would be a long process to find my ‘dream’ dress.”

“It was a little overwhelming.”

In such a daunting climate, Lolly hopes she can inspire plus-size brides- and grooms-to-be with her collected images while also inspiring a conversation about size diversity in the bridal industry. “Positive visibility is so important for plus/ fat people, ” she told the Daily Dot. “It needs to be seen that fat people are just like smaller people. We love, get married, have sex, have households. We are beautiful and have the same right to a perfect day as anyone else. Having a full range of wedding attire available to plus/ fat people should not be an issue, but it is.”

Jenn Cleggof Portland, OR, one of the “Wedding Wednesday” brides, told the Daily Dot she was just as disappointed as Lolly while she began to scheme her bridal. ” … ts truly deterring because you’re looking at bridal magazines, going to bridal displays and stores and it’s just like, ‘Where do I fit into this? How am I even going to make this happen? ‘” she told. “You dont have anyone or anything to look to, so youre just trying to piece it together by yourself.”

Jenn& Drew LollyLikesFATshion

Clegg continued, “It’s especially upsetting because you’re planning what’s supposed to be the biggest and most important day of your life, so you’re already overwhelmed, stressed and hyper-self-conscious because you want everything to be perfect.”

Not merely does marriage media primarily share images of straight size individuals, it also actively encourages brides- and grooms-to-be to drop-off some pounds before the big day. “Couples getting married are under an incredible sum of pressure from the industry to lose weight, “Emma Brownof the UK, another “Wedding Wednesday” bride, told the Daily Dot. “All of the bridal mags and carnivals have adverts vendors pushing various weight loss fads and to people how they ‘should’ seem and what they ‘should’ wear! ” As Brown and the others pointed out, fewif any of those suggestions fall in the plus-size realm, constructing it especially difficult for larger folks to find guidance and support.

Emma& Hayley LollyLikesFATshion

That’s why Clegg jumped at the opportunity to take part in Lollys series. “What Lolly and this series have done is …. people who aren’t a part of that small, society-accepted group do fall in love, get married, and find lots of happiness, ” she told. “That is something that is super righteous and important to have in this world.”Bobbi Olsonfrom South Carolina is especially grateful for that message, which she received not only as one of Lolly’s readersbut as another of her featured brides. “It was really special to me to be featured, ” she told the Daily Dot. She continued 😛 TAGEND

“One thing that really stressed me about my bridal day…was how people opinion my husband and together. As a woman, being larger than your spouse is altogether taboo. Its something that I can honestly say I have never seen in a magazine or television present, or truly featured in the media in any positive style at all…There are so many things that society says that I cant do, but Lolly’s blog helps break those walls and prove that we can.”

Lolly has been loving her part in all of this.As she prepares for her own 2016 marriage, she said she is benefiting from her readers positive tales as much as theyre benefiting from her posting them. “This is a journey and I hope to learn many inspiring things from these couples over the next year, ” she explained. “I am inspired by their openness and how they are happy to share their tales with me and my readers.”

Bobbi& Erik LollyLikesFATshion

Appearing as a blush bride on Lolly’s blog served as an important reminder of her beauty and self-worth, Olson recollected. “Your bridal day is likely to be one of the most incredible and memorable days of your life, and I can say from experience that all of the anxiety and stress I felt beforehandworrying about receiving a dress, about being judged for my option or being larger than my husbandall melted away in the heat of the moment, ” she said.

Ultimately, Olson’s marriage day “could not have been more perfect, ” she told. And she wants other plus-size brides-to-be to know that everything she felthappy, loved, beautiful, is possible for everyone.

“I want other women in larger bodies to know that no matter what pressures they’re impression, we have the right to feeling beautiful, ” she told. “We have the right to love ourselves and we have the right to a perfect bridal day.”

Photo via LollyLikesFATshion | Remix by Jason Reed

Weight Watchers criticised for connecting a woman’s weight and her ability to enjoy sexuality

Want better sexuality? You probably need to lose weight …

Image: weight watchers/ youtube

A marketing stunt from diet lords Weight Watchers backfired when “mood lightbulbs” sent to Australian female journalists seemed to make a comparison between a woman’s weight and her ability to enjoy sex.

It’s the first campaign to focus on sexuality for the brand, and evaluate by reactions to the “gift, ” it all feels a bit gross.

The Guardian’s Bridie Jabour was first to photograph and tweet about the lightbulb sent to her desk, asking the instead fair question, “How many people supposed this was an okay idea” and adding, “It’s just so nasty, invoking most intimate/ vulnerable moments.”

How many people supposed this was an okay notion before it arrived on my desk as a piece of PR pic.twitter.com/ 7tH37yyqsS

Bridie Jabour (@ bkjabour) October 14, 2016

The copy on the packaging explains that the lightbulb is designed to give you a “little boost in the bedroom( a PG sex toy, if you are able to ). “

“We hope it helps you start seeing yourself in a new lighting to love how you look and love how you feel, ” it says.

Pretty rich considering A) Women don’t require the “help” of a dieting company to feel good about themselves “in the bedroom” and B) the brand seems to be implying that if you’re even slightly overweight you basically dislike your body( or should ?) and wish to change it instantly lest you never enjoy sexuality for as long as you live.

Weight Watchers Black campaign seems to involve marketing the idea fat ppl don’t have optimal sexuality lives& would if they lost weight

Asher Wolf (@ Asher_Wolf) October 14, 2016

The stunt was the first stage in marketing the new program, Weight Watchers Black, which comes with the tagline ” helping you love sex, ” and includes elements of diet, exercise and mental coaching, all worded around sexuality.

Senior marketing manager, Rebecca Melville, reportedly told Mumbrella that “mistakes” were attained in the campaign. “As we launched, we launched in stages and that has fuelled the conversation without context, ” she told.

In a statement sent via email, Weight Watchers’ director of program and content, Martha Lourey-Bird, said the program is “about falling in love with real food again, enjoying getting active and detecting how good they can feel.”

The brand also offered research conducted in collaboration with Maidstone Consulting that states a one-quarter of Australian girls surveyed have avoided sexual activity due to body self-consciousness.

“These new statistics underline how body confidence can impact pleasure of many facets of a womans lifestyle, including sexual gratification, ” told analyze collaborator Nikki Goldstein, a sexologist, in the same statement.

We’re sure a sex-focussed weight loss program that makes a direct link between your body’s appearance and your sexuality life is going to altogether un-do that tendency, ladies. Way. To. Go.

UPDATE: Oct. 20, 2016, 4:06 p.m. AEDT Weight Watchers responded to Mashable with an official statement.

The brand explained that their campaign was based on insights from some members, “who had spoken to us about how improvements in their health and wellbeing had empowered them to feel more confident.

“We acknowledge however the delivery of the campaign did not build that message clear. We will continue to support those who have signed up to WW Black, but because we value every voice, we have made the decision to not actively promote the campaign further. We apologise for any offence caused.”

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