Skinny or strong?

"No, I don't lift, I don't want to get bulky" I heard for the hundredth time.  Really, so you'd rather just lose weight; get skinny and flap around?  

What do you think?  I believe it, because I am seeing more and more women in the gym, lifting.  In fact today there were several young girls lifting, impressive.  

Will lifting make you more solid?  Yep.  Will it make you stronger?  Yep.  Will you get bulky?  Only if you want to get bulky.  You can get crazy strong and no one would know you lift unless they see you in the gym.  As you begin your voyage into the world of lifting and get strong you will slowly see yourself being sculpted.  How much sculpting will be done is completely up to you.  How much weight you want to lose to unveil those muscles is up to you.  

The definition of:

1.  Skinny - Very lean or thin; emaciated.  Unusually low or reduced; meager, minimal.  

2.  Strong - Having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power, physically robust.  Accompanied or delivered by great physical, mechanical power or force.   

If someone called you skinny several years ago it would have probably been considered as a compliment.  But now I don't think it's such a compliment.  Wow, you know how to eat little quantities of food and lose weight, impressive.  Not so much. 

Skinny does not mean that you are healthy; nor does it mean that you are in shape.  Skinny just means that; of little body weight.  I will never tell someone that they are skinny; to me it's more of an insult than anything else.  Our bodies need food to run properly; deprive it of good nutrition and you may pay the price.  Trying to be skinny is a sad psychological issue; deprive, deprive, deprive to be skinny.  It's all about saying "no" instead of saying "yes" and getting healthy.   

Being too thin is not good.   

Getting healthy is a mind set.  If you constantly tell yourself that you are on a diet; you will most definitely feel deprived.  Tell yourself that you are eating clean, getting healthy and strong and you build your "go me" sense of achievement.  There are women out there (men too but not nearly as many) who just stop eating; they eat only enough to barely keep going.  No, they don't look healthy; they just look....skinny.  

You have one body, and that body is yours to do with what you want.  Wouldn't you want to make it as healthy and strong as possible?  Everyone is entitled to their own opinion; but if asked, I'll take strong over skinny any day.  I do not want to be passed over as a weakling that cannot help lift something, no thank you.  

Eat clean, get strong and healthy = feel great.  :)