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Originally Posted by AnonymouslyYours
I recently lowered it to 125 precisely because it is the lowest I can go without being underweight, so I think that if all I can do is be underweight, I will have to think I am skinny enough. I know that's probably not the healthiest mindset, but I also feel like I'll be 25 this summer and that gives me about 5 years to be "superhot" and so I'll just work really hard to stay as thin as possible.
Hold up, missy. We need to make some subtle adjustments in your mindset. I'm being a little less kind in this post.
1. Being just shy of "underweight" will not make you think that you're thin enough, if you don't already think you're thin enough 5 lbs above being clinically underweight. This is most definitely a mental issue that you need to address. There are no doubt tonnes of books on body image that you could find inexpensively, and I think it would be a good idea for you to take a look at them.
I think it's shockingly unhealthy, and will be very hard for you to drag your body down to that extreme without resorting to unhealthy measures (starvation diets of less than 1000 calories, purging, or other methods that could result in fainting, illness, undernourishment and potential fatality.)
2. Whoa whoa! I'm 25 in 5 months. Why the hel! have we only got 5 years to be super hot?
Do we die at 30? Does someone force-feed us Big Macs? What stops me, at 30, from going to the gym, eating right, and maintaining the exact same figure I had at 29? My mother is 50 and does iron mans (iron peoples...), triathalons, and is a part-time fitness instructor. She's a freakin' tank, is 130 lbs at 5'7", and could kick my friggin' @ss.
We do not die at 30. Our metabolisms do not roll over and die at 30 so we suddenly pack on 40 lbs. If you're willing to put the workout time in, fuel your body with good, nutritious food, and treat yourself right, you can be a super fox well into the second half of your life.
I mean, for god's sake, Jennifer Aniston is 42, and I'd sell my soul to have her body right now.
3.
Take. This. Seriously. Feeling like you're still "too big" happens to a lot of us. We all feel good some days, and feel bad others. Even once we're down to our goal weights, we have times where we feel good and tiny and times where we see a pic and think, "bleh, I need to tighten those thigh muscles still!"
But feeling so bad about yourself that you feel the need to push yourself to just shy of clinically underweight, is
NOT... NORMAL.
It's worrying to me, because you haven't specified what "working hard to get skinny" for your 20s entails. Are you eating balanced meals? Having a small amount of nourishment every three-four hours? Are you making sure you're getting (healthy) fats, (lean) protein, and (complex) carbs? Are you exercising? Are you taking into account that to be 125 lbs, you might have to lose muscle mass? And that a 135 lb chick with a tight a$s, slightly visible biceps, a defined tummy and toned thighs would look WAY skinnier and MUCH sexier than a soft, slightly starved 125 lb-er whose ribs show through her back when she leans over?
PLEASE REASSURE ME!!!!!!!!!
P.S.,
She's an inch shorter than you, and 130 lbs.