Weight Loss Photo Gallery: Inspiring or Upsetting?
iVillage is featuring a “Dieter’s Brag Quilt” where dieters can upload before and after pictures of their weight loss, and where visitors to the site can leave comments.
Celebrating healthy changes is good. Rejoicing in one another’s success is good. But somehow this just strikes me as self-esteem just waiting to be destroyed by meanie-beanies with too much time on their hands. What do you think?
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POSTED IN: Mental health, Weight Loss
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4 opinions for Weight Loss Photo Gallery: Inspiring or Upsetting?
alicia
Jun 16, 2007 at 4:07 pm
In theory, I think it’s a great idea to not only help motivate these people but to also give them some positive feedback - and we all know how important that is.
However, we all also know how mean people can be. I guess just about everything in life is a double-edged sword and we can only ensure that our own actions aren’t negative. (In this case, being mean to someone on the Dieter’s Brag Quilt.)
msempower (aka Em)
Jun 16, 2007 at 11:18 pm
I understand the idea is to create a sense of pride over weight loss goals. I’m hoping that these people actually needed to lose this weight in the first place and that they did so in a healthy manner.
When does body disatisfaction become an unhealthy obsession? I just hope this project has a positive vs. negative impact.
Flabuless
Jun 18, 2007 at 8:41 pm
Well I have lost 95lbs and I am happy to post my pics everywhere for ALL to see. I think its a fantastic idea…so after reading this post I went right ahead and added my own before and after pics to the Dieters Quilt. Losing weight is a mind and self esteem journey as much as dieting one as I have demonstrated over and over again in my personal blog http://www.findingflabuless.com/Blog. Once a ‘fatty’ like myself gets to the stage where they feel comfortable sharing photos…even BEFORE photo’s they are nearly there in terms of their own healing path. So I encourage all ‘Losers’ to push the boundaries of what they are comfortable with and do just that…put their progress out there for all the world to see. and wait for the ‘compliments’ to come flowing in as they inevitably do…
Elastic Waist
Jun 20, 2007 at 8:45 pm
I think it is good for these women to share their triumphs, meanies be damned!
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