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Seriously – a company that will “slim down” a photo of you and turn it into a fridge magnet that you can use for weight-loss inspiration. Hmmm, I dunno… what do you think?
empower me
04 Monday Oct 2010
Posted in diet & nutrition, fitness, health & happiness
casa azahar 
That wouldn’t empower me, I don’t think. It would make me feel inadequate. And who’s to say that’s what I’d look like anyway? What about saggy skin?
Think I’ll give it a miss!
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Well, it’s possibly somewhat better than the one where you stick a FAT pic of yourself in a bikini on the fridge, but I agree that this also seems a bit off.
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I think people who consider themselves “fat” but aren’t would use that method, not people who actually are overweight.
What I can’t understand is movie stars who see photos of themselves where every rib is showing and their arms are like sticks don’t think “I need to put on some weight”. Some of these women look horrifyingly thin but seem not to be perturbed…
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not buying this as empowerment tool – it would just make you feel worse when you didn’t end up like the ‘skinny pic’. A money making scam methinks!
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I think it would be useful mainly as a reminder to regular people that those unearthly perfect bodies you see in the magazines had a little technical help getting that way. Inspiring, I’m not sure.
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Main problem I have with this whole thing is the fact that the picture is so obviously of two different people..
But no, no pictures anywhere. Not a deterrent. A mirror where you walk by it every day (as opposed to hidden in the spare room behind the door) will do the job.
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The pic I used here has nothing to do with the EmpowerMe site – I just found it on google images.
What’s quite uninspiring to me is that I used to look like that girl on the right and now I look like the one on the left … and I don’t suffer from any delusion that at age 53 3/4 that I’ll ever be thin again. But although I do want to be less fat I’m not sure a faked thinner image of me would help.
Mirrors??? Are you mad? I avoid them like I would any other horrid and cruel reality…
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Admittedly I’m about 20 years younger than you, but since my blob was removed and I was allowed to start going to the gym, I’ve lost 20kgs. So I used to look like the woman on the left but am headed towards the one on the right..
I also avoid mirrors and photographs – to the extent that it looks like I don’t exist in the family which is very sad, so I’m working on being available and smiling and happy about posing.
Nancie – I am about 5 inches taller than my unbelievably petite mother-in-law and that does it for me. Next to her I’ve always looked like Hulk and always will.
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That would not do it for me. I’m trying to lose a few pounds before I have my medical here in Korea. Have a medical in a country where you are at least 6 inches taller than most people. Then you start trying to decipher the Korean medical report with a bit of English thrown in for good measure. I see the word obesity in several places…(I am not obese!) I have lost 6 kilo since my last medical here, and am trying to get a couple more kilo off before I go through the torture again.
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Hmmm, I’d be more inclined to do it myself (bit of a photoshop whizz, courtesy of my job) and I guess it probably would motivate me to stick to my current regimen of healthy eating and exercise if I could visualise the results so clearly. But I’d also have to have a timeframe to see those results and a real plan to achieve them.
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