I follow a few people on tumblr who only/mostly posts about healthy eating, exercising, feeling good about yourself etc. At first it was very motivating and awesome and YAAAY but now... Maybe because I started follow some new people in this genre it has almost made me lose my motivation for the whole thing and made me quite sad and down sometimes when I think about it. Why is this, you might ask. WELL. This is because all of the NO and all of the DO and push push push. Push, not in a good way at least not in my eyes. YOU HAVE TO EAT CLEAN OR YOU WILL LOOK LIKE SHIT. That is what I feel many of these quotes that goes around are screaming to me. Even though there are many parts that also are YAY you ate a burger THAT'S OK burgers are tasty! It's like they want me to feel bad for eating my ice cream, drinking my soda and enjoying my pizza that is overflowing with cheese and fat.
It makes me angry. I'm not a faliure because I like and enjoy my shitty foods etc. Just because I skip a day at the gym does not make me a poo either. Also this is a quote I've been wanting to puke on for a very long time:
I'm trying to fill my "health tumblr" with all posetive things and I do not want to make anyone (including myself) feel like shit because of these silly things. Specially not for eating fries. fhjfhsjkshak just scares me. This fasade of beeing healthy and awesome and fit and then you notice these things. They scare me. It's good to eat well and exercise yes but I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. Some of the things that goes around fitblrs feels like they are just pooping in your brain. I DO NOT nor WILL I feel like shit for eating crappy every once in a while or maybe skip working out sometimes just because I did not feel like it. Cred to all the aweomse ones out there though. To all the once who encourage people to stay fit, healthy and happy even if we don't eat 100% clean or go to the gym 5 times a week!
I think I was to tired to make this posts. I'm expecting misunderstandings. Now, bed. AWESOME NIGHT EVERYONE!
No I think your completely right about how its crappy to say bad things when you just want to eat yummy food, or if you dont want to exercise so what? You can miss one day and not turn into a total slob. This is why I don't follow many blogs or tumblrs like that because they try to shove what they think is the only way to stay healthy down my throat. I think your stuff is the only ones I look at anymore. Thanks for being so great!
SvaraRaderaallt handlar om balans i livet, hur klyschigt och abstrakt det än må låta. det viktigaste är att man mår bra och inte lever för att äta utan äter för att leva <3
SvaraRaderaDe e ju också sant ^-^ skulle ju aldrig förespråka om att "gillaru pizza, BRA ät de varje dag JAAAA!", För det leder också till hemskheter :/
RaderaHåller med dig. Dessutom verkar folk inte se skillnad på smala tjejer och vältränade. Den här trenden har nästan ersatt anorexi.
SvaraRaderaJag känner så också! Det mest skrämmande tror jag är att många inte märker det :/
RaderaI'm SOOOOO happy that you put this out here, cause I've been feeling the same way for so long. This had to be said. Thanks! :)
SvaraRaderaYou´re so right!
SvaraRaderaIf you do something for your body , you should enjoy it and not force yourself.
There are always people who see everything to extremely and that's always bad in my opinion. >:I
Thank you for posting this! I deal with some comments like that here and there and it makes me shut down. Sure, I have moments of weakness but I shouldn't be made to feel ashamed by it! I'm genuinely trying to get healthy and get back into shape but all the negative comments are not helping at all. Thank you for saying this and thank you for all your kind and positive words! XOXO
SvaraRaderaYou're so right! Pushing people to think and live too healthily, watching everything you eat, is just sick. I'm very sensitive, and I was bullied for years because I was a bit chubby, didn't really care about exercise and overhealthy eating, because I was happy the way I was. But then one day, after years of being pushed to lose weight and so, something clicked in my head and bang; I started to believe I really am a bad person for not running 10 kilometers a day and eating all vegetables and shit. It was 5 years ago and here I am - became anorexic and now bulimic. All because of the media made me think I wasn't not good enough the way I was.
SvaraRaderaJag håller verkligen med dig om hetsen som pågår på många bloggar/tumblrs... Det är därför jag oftast håller mig borta från träningsbloggar och dylikt. Jag avskyr citatet på bilden i ditt inlägg, för det verkar som om folk som använder sig av det måste trycka ner en viss kategori människor, för att kunna vara nöjda med sin egen insats. Det blir lite "Jag är fin och du är ful"-känsla :ppp
SvaraRaderaDo not like!
Amen ! Thank you. Finally seeing someone reasonable with this topic. Ofc its good to be healthy and keep that as a goal but people shouldnt be so hard on themselves. ;o So i really appreciate you for writing this post.
SvaraRaderaTotally agree with you. I follow some health blogs on Tumblr because i want my body to be right (as many of us) but sometimes i think that it is too much. We have to enjoy sports and food, BUT we cannot do all the sports we didn't do in our whole life, and suddenly leave the fries behind (because they are fantastic ^^).
SvaraRaderaThis just consists in enjoying everything we can. I want to eat a lot of ice cream today? ok, that's fine. Tomorrow i will go for a run...or maybe not :)