My Inspiration Picture

I was reading Fit to the Finish’s blog today titled “Finding Inspiration in a Picture” and it incited me to write a post about my own inspirational picture. I liked this post because she used a picture of a thinner version of herself for motivation, as opposed to a model. I’ve tried posting pictures of thin girls on the fridge before, but it doesn’t work. When I look at a picture of myself from when I was thinner, I know what I ate then and how active I was. I don’t know those things about other unknown people, so it doesn’t do me a lot of good to look at them to try to feel inspired.

The picture that I have chosen is perfect because I was even surprised at the time that I had gotten that thin. It’s also a great picture because I know what size jeans I was wearing and what I weighed. If I look at another person looking thin, I don’t know those things about them. Are they a size zero? Do they have a high metabolisim? They probably don’t have a sluggish thyroid like me… I start to think of all the reasons that I can’t look like the person in the “inspiration” picture. When I look at an image of myself, I have remarkably fewer comebacks.