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RE: Body Image - 2/28/2008 2:55:07 PM

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Yep. I'm out.

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RE: Body Image - 2/28/2008 2:56:00 PM

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I'm pretty happy with this vessel.
I just can't seem to get rid of a small gut though.
Middle age I guess.
Lots of people have told me that I have "nice skin" though and eyes and butt.
I walk alot so that keeps the butt firm.
I'm telling ya, if you walk for 2 miles everyday you'll look and feel so much better!

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RE: Body Image - 2/28/2008 2:56:33 PM

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I'm VERY happy with my body....

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RE: Body Image - 2/28/2008 3:00:00 PM

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Strangely, having lost 45lbs over the last few months (for health reasons mostly) - I find it's changed my 'body image' - prior to this I was relatively happy and confident with my body. Now I find I'm lacking in confidence, and overly self concious.

I am in no way as attractive as I was - what was large but firm (along with nice c-section scar and the now ledgendary overhang), is now wobbly and saggy and offensive to my eyes. For the first time in my life I'm considering cosmetic surgery to try and remedy some of it.

I've noticed that I'm viewed more positively by colleagues and others etc, which is somewhat insulting, I was always a nice and competent person!

I don't think this relates to the media lead issues....... other than the fact that it suggests there is a level of conditioning through the media that overwieght people are incompetent or unpleasant.

I would like to return to who I was, and if I didn't need the health benefits the weight loss has provided I would be stuffing my self silly!

Young lady...about weight and how we look. It is up to us to feel good about ourselves, get in good healthy physical shape, maintain the healthiest diet, and exercise a little each day to maintain a healthy body.

Once we are healthy...the body takes care of itself. Anymore, and it is matter of our bodies being stronger with more endurance...that's all. This doesn't have to meet the traditional, standard of formal European beauty.

Yes, the idea of a 'Hollywood' body has taken hold among too many, especially the young and can cause dietary problems. There's something else at work there...not necessarily worship of having a 'special' look.

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RE: Body Image - 2/28/2008 3:02:28 PM

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Yep. I'm out.

Ya look fine to me, darlin'.

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RE: Body Image - 2/28/2008 3:06:00 PM

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Awesome of you to say!

I was actually replying to a different dealio...

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RE: Body Image - 2/28/2008 3:07:23 PM

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Awesome of you to say!

I was actually replying to a different dealio...

:)

Yeh, I know. I just like to say the obvious, sometimes.

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RE: Body Image - 2/28/2008 5:13:30 PM

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I say screw what the media thinks.... i am happy the way I am .....but on that note the dr. said I need to loose weight so I will not be as great as risk for hederity diabites.

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RE: Body Image - 2/28/2008 5:40:34 PM

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The media stopped influencing my perception of anything in 1987. The Tawana Brawley case crystalized for me that the media had become a caricature of itself and was no more valuable a tool for impartial, fact based useful information than the drunk plumber at 2:30pm at the Irish bar under the railroad tracks in my town.....

You might think about using most of that statement as your sigline quote. It's brilliant. Mind if I steal it?

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RE: Body Image - 2/28/2008 6:40:55 PM

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my perception of my own body has changed drastically over the past five years. before, I would only see the flaws. thankfully, age, and being a mother as well, I think, have taught me to look at many things with a far less critical eye. I have learned how to be kind to myself in the process.

it's funny, but more than one person has told me they notice the way I carry myself. I guess the fact that I feel good about myself shows.

I wouldn't want anything less for myself or for anyone else, regardless of what the media says.

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RE: Body Image - 2/28/2008 8:07:48 PM

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I wish I were thinner and more fit, and not toting around an extra sixty pounds, but my fabulous babeosity has remained intact. And you BET I would get plastic surgery! But, reconstructive surgery was one of my first life experiences, so my spin on it is pretty positive.

I see the media hype as harming the younger generations a great deal. One of my young cousins genuinely had her growth stunted by a mom who taught her the word "fattening" by about age 6 or so.

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RE: Body Image - 2/28/2008 11:49:05 PM

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The reason I posted because of what I am now seeing as applied to males. Males appear to be under scutiny now by the image gurus. Apparently buff is out, and the scrawny look is in, this I believe is to do with fashion designers whim to provide clothing sets to suit both male and female, perhaps the androgenous look or girlyboy.

Males are now being reported to be starving themselves to be the ideal. All the things that in the past that have been the preserve of women as regards image, is now becoming males. The wonder is, are women going to be kinder to men as regards this current idea. Men or an industry lead by men have been kind of cruel in the past to women as to what they should look like, now it's the male's turn. When the male finally gets fed up with the image stylists, maybe then there will be a change for the better.

My body image, on the whole I like it, but there are a few things I would like to change. I do make the effort and exercise mainly using isometrics and yoga, body building is just not me, I have tried before, I am one of those people that just cannot put on weight no matter how hard I try, I am the same now as I was twenty years ago.

Women, well I like women to look like women, all the lovely curves and fat where it is meant to be,the term voluptuous holds an attraction. But honestly, as long as a woman makes the effort to exercise, I have no problems and much prefer to seek out the inner beauty.

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RE: Body Image - 2/29/2008 12:51:37 AM

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That's the thing, in my experiences the old saying is true: a lot of "pretty" people - of all ages - turn out to be pretty ugly inside. Not all, but, a lot of them.

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RE: Body Image - 2/29/2008 1:32:04 AM

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I think sexy oozes from sexy people regardless of size. Carry your self well and know you are hot and others will think you are too. How many times have you been mesmerized by someone, they aren't your normal type and not the media image of beautiful but you just find them so incredibly sexy?

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RE: Body Image - 2/29/2008 8:40:20 AM

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So skinny guys are the thing? Well they are way easier to wrap myself around.....

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RE: Body Image - 2/29/2008 11:18:04 AM

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So skinny guys are the thing? Well they are way easier to wrap myself around.....

Any man can be the thing. So long as he turns you on!

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RE: Body Image - 2/29/2008 11:35:23 AM

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if anyone is happy with their body....i'd say thats a miracle...there is always something wrong or something thats not liked.

the usual main issues are weight, hair, and breasts... female issues that is...

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RE: Body Image - 2/29/2008 2:16:44 PM

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My bulimia is not about my body...it's about my anxiety and coping with it...I take sexy pics all the time...I love modeling lingerie for men...I think I look good, though my stomach really could be smaller (it gets in the way a lot) I see eating as a weakness...strong people don't need food. It's hard to explain...I don't completely understand it myself.

*hugs* been there - although maybe not for exactly the same reasons. it really isnt a very happy place to be...you feel like there must be something wrong with you, b/c you can't stop eating - you feel completely worthless and out of control. like you are something less than human. and what is worse, you are never satisfied with how you look, no matter how much weight you lose.

it took me a while to get over the major issues i had (and still have to a certain extent - you can never completely eliminate that voice in the back of your head that nitpicks and criticizes everything about you in the mirror). some days are better than others. and it always helps to have someone you love and care about tell you that you are beautiful - that's what did it for me. my first taught me that i didn't need to be a stick to be beautiful, and he showed me how to see the beauty in my 36/25/35 figure.

now if only i could do something about my skin

just kidding!

the bs the media feeds you is a warped version of what beauty is, created in order to make ppl feel bad about themselves and compel them to purchase products that will make them 'better.' don't buy into it. be happy. be healthy. and enjoy life. nothing else matters.

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