Thread: Who is your inspiration?

Curvy women like Kate Winslet - I don't want to be thin! (Or flat or toned for that matter - I have flesh and that's me!)

One of my heroes here is Porgeous - http://www.minimins.com/members/3269-porgeous.html- her pics and blog are brilliant (and she didn't even exercise!). Everybody who completes CD is a hero of course - that goes without saying!

I love reading about people's stories on here.
I find people with healthy thought processes particularly useful to look up to and will agree with MissAma on KD. Also read about Icemoose when I first joined.
I, like a lot of people, look at celebs and have felt envious about their figures, but I always just wanted to be a better version of me.
Always been happy with my face really - I have a biggish nose and my ears are so small they look weird, but I'm completely fine with all that. Now I am working towards being completely fine with my body and finally showing it some appreciation for keeping me going all these years!

I would love to have a figure like kelly brook, the only thing i think me and her will ever have in common is our name ! ha ha

Oh gosh MissAma...just seen this. What a lovely thing to say

Thankyou and so very glad to hear that I can help

Originally Posted by KD

I thought about this, and you know what. I'm my own inspiration.

I don't think I ever look at anyone and want to have their figures, or their looks. Don't know why I guess I'm too down to earth and know myself too well.

I know I wont ever have xxx body (which probably means her eating disorders to book) ...or her looks, or her successes in a job of her dreams.

I just wanted to be a smaller version of me and succeed with my small challenges.

So I'm inspired by me Because for every day that I succeed in my aims, I've done it in my circumstances, wearing my shoes, with my history, and that doesn't change too much, so it's real to me.

I did it yesterday, so I can do it again today, not she did it yesterday, so I can do it today.

I so love this!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheers everyone for posting your inspiration! It's great to see what everyone is working towards

I've been on a programme of self improvement for the last few years. I started off dying my hair back to brown, then I got braces on my teeth to correct my overlapping front teeth and overbite.

Now I'm tackling the weight. I found I could only concentrate on one thing at a time... doing it all in one go would've felt like I was losing myself, iyswim.

I don't really have anyone I look up to, I just know what I don't want to be...

I love looking at celebrities and thinking I would love to look like that, but as someone else said earlier - along with it would come eating disorders -already have one of those - LOL and personal trainers, hours in the gym, plastic surgery.. the list goes on... and then I look at my little boys, who love me for who I am not what I look like and that makes me smile...
The one person who I do really feel for is my OH, I was 9 stone when we met 10 years ago and got married, then 2 boys came along and so did 4 stone of weight... he hasnt complained once about my size or anything... so I am doing this for both of us - I want us to get back to where we were a few years ago...

That's me !!!

I can honestly say that I do not look up to or get inspiration from any celebrity. Take Jordan (I wish someone would) for example. Look at the amount of surgery she has had over the years. Look at her little body and yet she hates herself. She thinks she's fat. She is an unhappy, crude mess and I personally think that she is an ugly bully and Peter is well out of it!!!!! But that's another topic. The point I am trying to make is that most of these celebrities are so insecure. They are not nice people and they are certainly not happy people.

My inspiration comes from people who fight to become winners - someone like Richard Branson who started off doing business from a phone box!! Also KD - her post on this topic is fantastic!!!