Ever feel particularly uninspired or demotivated when you catch some fitspiration or fitspo tagged content on social media? You're not alone.
almost all participants said they looked at fitspiration in order to get motivated to exercise or eat healthy.
But the study found that looking at fitspo wasn’t a healthy behavior. About 25 percent of the participants said they weren’t happy with their physique and felt a sense of failure for not resembling the healthy ideal they admired. The study authors noted that only a small number of participants said they understood the images were likely edited to make the poster seem thinner or more muscular than they were in real life.
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