This Woman Lost 172 Pounds, So Why Won’t a Fitness Magazine Show Her Body?

Guess what? You can lose a lot of weight and you STILL not have a "perfect" body.

http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/05/07/this-mom-lost-weight-fitness-magazine-wont-show-her-stomach



Thumb through most health and fitness magazines and you’ll be looking at a Photoshopped-to-hell-and-back fantasy: If you follow all the monthly eating tips and workout tricks, the mags claim, you’ll drop pounds and end up looking like the model on page 47 sporting six-pack abs while she does bicep curls. If lifestyle blogger Brooke Birmingham’s experience is any indication, those mags aren’t too interested in reality.

Birmingham ate right, worked out, lost an incredible 172 pounds, and still had loose skin on her belly. Apparently, showing that real stomach terrified the editorial team over at Shape magazine.
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Shape was totally down to tell 28-year-old Birmingham’s story as part of its monthly Success Stories feature. A reporter contacted her via email, and they had a perfectly normal interview. Everything was rosy until Birmingham sent over an image of herself rocking a bikini to accompany the story.

“My editors were hoping you could send over a different after photo. (You look ah-mazing, of course, but they are looking to include one with a shirt),” Birmingham’s contact wrote.

Birmingham, who blogged about the experience on her website, wasn’t buying it. “Really? Have you logged on to Shape’s website lately?” she wrote. “You can find MANY women in bikinis on the site.”

Just none without perfectly toned, flat tummies.