The Skinny Times

Hello lovely followers!

I just wanted to let you know that unfortunately, I am going to stop working on this blog for a little bit.

I’ve had a hard time putting posts up and staying active since the beginning of summer, and now that I’m back in college, I need to focus more time on my school work.

Thank you for following me for these past few months, and I really appreciate all of your support! I promise that as soon as I have my life figured out and under control, I will start this blog up again. In the meantime, best of luck on your own fitness journeys!

I will be continuing my personal blog, http://marinalea.tumblr.com/, so if you liked me thus far, feel free to continue following me! I’ll always be here if you have any questions or need any help, be it fitness, personal issues, or you just want to talk about nothing in particular.

Again, thank you, and I’ll miss you!

Best,

Marina @ TheSkinnyTimes

fitfastfierce:

justbreathe11:

This will be me.

Okay, this is freaking inspiring. The transformation I want pretty much exactly.

theperfectratio:

oooh going to sort out food like this from now on!

imperfectionatbestt:

Everyone’s heard warnings about the “freshman 15.” But is it true that many college students pack on 15 pounds during their first year at school?

Recent studies find that some first-year students are indeed likely to gain weight — but it might not be the full freshman 15 and it may not all…

stayfitbug:

UNDERSTANDING CALORIES… PART 3

»>http://www.31dayshredwithbulk.com/customized-fat-lossss-diet

yogi-health:

For some strange reason, people just can’t understand that “dieting” isn’t a very successful way to lose weight. I just wish I could explain it to everyone at once and for them to actually understand. People just aren’t willing to make changes or sacrifices. It just makes me think about how greedy people really are. 

h0lyfools:

LADY ABS ARE NOT “UGLY”.

It’s not news that advertising images — particularly in the fashion business — are biased toward the very thin. But a recent study by researchers at Arizona State University found that women pay more attention to guilt-inducing marketing messages about fatness than they do to the opinions of their friends, even when those friends do not believe they are obese.

The fashion industry is particularly cynical on this issue, as it frequently uses under-age girls as models for clothing intended for adults. While those girls may merely be thin and not anorexic because of their youth, only an anorexic adult could hope to replicate those looks when buying off the rack. (The issue is further complicated when advertisers use child models posing as adults in sexy situations, which skirts the laws prohibiting the production of pedophilic images.)

Here are 10 advertising offenders, many of them main street brands such as Abercrombie & Fitch and The Gap, who are guilty of promoting anorexia in their marketing.

matchstickmolly:

No-Frills Guide to Cardio!