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Aryn
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Posted: 10 October 2005 04:59 am |
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My husband is always coming up with these sayings or mantras that he calls "thinspirations". Thinspirations are basically sayings that help motivate you to want to eat well and stick with your program.
One thinspiration that always comes to mind for me is, "Nothing tastes as good as being thin feels." I also noticed on one of the posts that Corina came up with the mantra, "Me. Today. Here. Now."
Anyway, I thought it would be fun to start a thread where people could share their thinspirations for others.
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Peter
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Posted: 10 October 2005 06:15 am |
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"There is nothing so horrible in life that eating over it can't make things worse."
Peter
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Corina
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Posted: 10 October 2005 07:35 pm |
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Someone else posted a "thinspiration" on this forum. It went like this:
I can't eat this. I can't eat that. 'Cause if I do, it'll make me fat.
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Corina
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Posted: 11 October 2005 12:25 am |
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Here's another one for all of us who goof up on our diet:
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese proverb
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BlushRose
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Posted: 11 October 2005 05:38 pm |
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Love that......thinspirations!! I try to come up with a positive mantra every morning to keep me on the right track....here's one of my favorites:
Smile, be happy, breathe deep and be good to yourself!
Last edited on 11 October 2005 05:39 pm by BlushRose
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tqsparkles
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Posted: 12 October 2005 11:44 pm |
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Whenever I reach for the gummibears because I've had a stressful day I try to think:
" Food is fuel not therapy "
Gotta treat yourself like a 100,000 vintage hotrod. (personally I'd wanna be an original stock 69 gto judge in burnt orange with black leather interior...anyways haha:P) You're not gunna put #%@&! fuel in the tank. And you never get the urge to put fuel in your car and dish out the bucks when its still got 3/4 tank, right?
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fantasia31
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Posted: 13 October 2005 08:12 pm |
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My mantra lately has been "The longer I wait to do the right thing, the longer it takes to reach my goal"
It reminds me that I need to take control NOW, not be concerned about how long it will take to get there. At the same time I know that if I competely fall off the wagon and fail to get back up, that means that I have that much further to my goal.
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flyawayana
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Posted: 14 October 2005 06:20 pm |
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~Craving is only a feeling!
~We all know that drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and addictions are harmful. Calories are harmful in the same way. If you eat extra calories, you are surely killing yourself in the same way that any other substance kills.
~Don't do anything today that you'll regret tomorrow.
~In the body, as in sculpture, perfection is attained not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
~Don't give up what you want most for what you want at the moment.
~The difference between want and need is SELF CONTROL.
Do you really want to be that weight for the rest of your life!?!?
Only I can let myself fail.
An imperfect body reflects an imperfect person
Nothing tastes as good as thin feels
Inside us is a thin person struggling to get out, but she, too, is sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.
Calories can't make you happy.
........You've come too far in life to take orders from a cookie.
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Green Apple
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Posted: 21 October 2005 08:40 pm |
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| I went to a hypnotist once and the one thing that I found helpful was talking to myself in the third person. I would say to myself- 'You are really starting to enjoy working out'-- 'You are getting thinner and more fit everyday'--I was surprised by how well that worked.
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collegestudent
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Posted: 21 October 2005 09:32 pm |
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| You is actually second person ;) Third person would be "green apple is really starting to enjoy working out" etc. Oh fifth grade english class, how I miss thee. (I'm not trying to be mean; I just think that most educated adults should know the differences among first, second, and third person)
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Peter
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Posted: 21 October 2005 10:01 pm |
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How can green apple be the second and third persons? I think collegestudent is the third person.
Haha
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fatmama
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Posted: 17 November 2005 05:10 pm |
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| I just watched Robots the other day and there was the cutest saying! I thought it was perfect for everyone who wants to lose weight. "Why be you when you can be NEW?"! Awesome, huh? Good luck to everyone on meeting and exceding their goals today!
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Posted: 31 December 2005 03:31 am |
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An oldie but goodie:
"Eat to Live; Don't Live to Eat"
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Posted: 31 December 2005 03:33 am |
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And:
"Let it waste in the trash, not on my waist"
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SoSoHot
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Posted: 3 January 2006 12:11 am |
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| Oprah said that.
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Bebe1508
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Posted: 3 January 2006 04:45 am |
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| This isn't necessarily the best thinspiration but in general it is true - "Starving hurts but hunger works."
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Posted: 3 January 2006 04:11 pm |
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| Fiona Apple!
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runner mommy
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Posted: 28 January 2006 06:53 pm |
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I love all of these, I may have to print them out and post on my fridge...
here's mine, I tell myself this when faced w/ a cookie or yummy but very non healthy treat or dinner...
food doesn't taste better and better the more you eat of it
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NevD
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Posted: 28 January 2006 08:38 pm |
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- Now I eat six times a day, all that fat has gone away.
- Since I got my eating right, waist is trim and future's bright...
Don't get me started. I've got bushels of doggerel just itching to get out!
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KICKIN_IT_IN_MI
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Posted: 29 January 2006 02:51 am |
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This is not a Thinspiration but I enjoyed it when I heard it:
When someone is pestering you to try something you know isn't worth the calories and they won't take no for an answer say;
"I am allergic, I'll break out in fat". :P
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Peter
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Posted: 29 January 2006 03:26 am |
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Funny, but of course it would be rude to say to an overweight person, and the person pestering you to try something usually is.
Peter
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NevD
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Posted: 29 January 2006 04:03 pm |
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So, could you get away with:
"I am allergic, I'll break out in subcutaneous adipose tissue"...?
NevD
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flyawayana
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Posted: 29 January 2006 10:14 pm |
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hahahahaha... thats awsome nevd
fly
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Posted: 10 February 2006 12:57 pm |
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| "One moment on the lips, forever on the hips"
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GreenEater
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Posted: 11 February 2006 05:43 am |
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| I love this thread. Thanks for bringing it back to life. As permission not to clean his plate, my dad used to say something like, "Whether I eat it or throw it away, it ends up in the same place."
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Peter
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Posted: 11 February 2006 08:17 am |
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Or, "Don't make a garbage pale out of your stomach."
Peter
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Snow
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Posted: 15 February 2006 08:07 pm |
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Steven Tyler said, 'Pretend to be somebody until that somebody becomes you.' Kinda like fake it til you make it.
Sometimes when I'm getting ready to work out I will imagine I'm 'That girl' you see at the gym. Looking great, working out, picture of health. That girl works out at least five days a week. So, I try to work out five days a week, just like she does. If I do that long enough maybe, someday I will be that girl too.
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Paint-Mom
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Posted: 15 February 2006 08:25 pm |
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| "You are what you eat!" I read this yesterday on the young man's T-shirt. I have to agree. Thanks Snow and Peter for your comments @ my journl. I tried to write there this am but it would -- a glich kept the type from working!
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GreenEater
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Posted: 19 February 2006 07:39 am |
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| I heard another good one today. "Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels."
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NevD
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Posted: 19 February 2006 06:02 pm |
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Steven Tyler said, 'Pretend to be somebody until that somebody becomes you.' Kinda like fake it til you make it.
Essentially, that's what written goals do for you...
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jimmyd
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Posted: 20 February 2006 08:48 pm |
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Simply,
"Do it when you don't feel like it."
Anyone can do it when the mood strikes.
Jim
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OnceUpon-A-ThinGirl
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Posted: 8 April 2006 10:21 am |
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| I talk to myself, "Buck-up it isn't that bad" "I gave birth, I can do this!" "Do I really want that cookie, is 1 minute of pleasure worth it?" my personal favorite "Don't be lazy! Go excersize!" This might sound weird but if I use my own name ie. "Jackie don't quit now" I seem to listen to myself better :)
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