Issues with our bodies/the way we look...:(

Just remember there's a difference in being fit for self-absorption and fit for health. It's possible to live a long, meaningful life and die without being an unhealthy blob.

 

Totally agree with you. I wholeheartedly stand behind a healthy lifestyle.

This quote was more geared to the people (to include me on occasion) that obsess about the gray hair, the wrinkle here, the sunspot there. Life is supposed to be lived and enjoyed. Do what makes you happy and stop worrying about what others think. Easier to dish out than to apply of course. Human nature drives us to be accepted by society but at the same time living up to someone else's expectations and not your own, does not lend itself to a content life.

And as a side note, is if obsessing about a gray hair makes you happy, by then all means do it.

 

Very true. I didn't realize how hard it is to be completely true to yourself until after I looked back at my high school days. now there was a girl who could've used some insight into the world.

 

I'm very proud of overcoming a great deal of insecurities though I still have many more that torment me. I believe entirely that a great portion of our external appearance reflects our inner self doubts, I learned this in high school when I overheard the boy I had a crush on talking about me and he had said "yeah, she's cute as hell, but shes so quiet I can't stand being around her", and the thing was I was so quiet because I was worrying about my make-up or they way my hair looked and as it turned out those things looked just fine. I still worry about the way I look, but now I do it for me because I finally learned to like myself. I still cross my fingers that I'll magically lose 3 inches from my thighs though

 

I've always been insecure about my thighs even though many people have said I have a good body! I went to the extent of constantly wearing huge t shirts to cover them up!
I think it's because one of my ex's said I had big thighs to get back at me.
I can't ever see myself getting over the paranoia.

 

The number one insecurity i have of my body is my gut. It sticks out and hangs over my pants. That dreaded hated "muffin top". I am going to the gym, but still that seems to stick around. It's especially bad after having a kid. I have always hated taking pictures. Now i ESPECIALLY hate taking full body pics.

 

Most of the models we are presented are beautiful even without makeup and lighting ect.
My problem is the way that beauty is celebrated and held up as something to strive towards first and foremost before other high quality traits like a brilliant mind or a good heart Those that are truely genetically blessed in this way represent the minority not the majority..So the rest of us mere mortals are left feeling that they have to measure up and if they don't or can't that somehow they are of lesser value to society. It's sad really..

 

Walk! Walk walk walk. It really helps to have a job that requires you to stand for 6-9 hours a day, I've lost 3 inches from my thighs in the past two years. I still think they are too big, but I can wear shorts without oozing out of them at the legs now. Haha

 

Sometimes, I get so deppressed from the self hatred I feel so hopeless. I've alway been overweight and going through life like this has made me so pessimistic. On the outside people always say how happy and nice I am but very little know that im constantly unhappy and down. My only joys in life envolve my music, cats and husband.
So hard do I try to hold onto all these things but once I step outside I wait for the judgement. The cruelty of humans who are so hard to except themselves, that try to put off their self hatred to bigger people. And so we let them! How dare us! But what more is there... when there was nothing but a life of shame and sadness... We know nothing more than... Well, what we grew up with.
Why can't we just love others.... Just the way they are.. Why can't I just love myself?

 

The goal of marketers is to sell products. If you have something to sell, you don’t just go up to the person and pitch the product. You have to make them “realize” that they have a problem that needs a solution. Then you offer your product as a solution.
Cosmetics, cloths, personal hygiene products is big business. It is an intentional and concerted effort to set standards, that are very difficult (or impossible)to reach (and then change them from time to time). So that the vast majority thinks that how she looks/is, is a problem somehow. They can then present their product as a solution (e.g. It was very clever marketing by razor and then gel companies, to somehow get women to believe they had to shave to). I believe this form of abuse is more intimate than any other, as it attacks and corrupts ones ability, to have a healthy self image. By the time women get old enough to ask “what the hell am I doing this for” , the damage is usually so severe, that it is very difficult (if not impossible) to break out of thinking and feeling that way. But you must understand that all this image insecurity, is not about you or the way you look. It is about the effects of very effective marketing. As Grace Slick sang “you’re only (as) pretty as you feel”.
There is a similar strategy used for guys. But this post is too long already.

 

I dont like my beer belly, but not enough to stop drinking beer
I dont like my crooked teeth in the front, but not enough to be an adult with braces
I used to hate my pale skin, but I have very few fine lines, and comsuming tons of tomato and carrot has given me healthy glow.

Nothing about me that I dont like is a big enough deal to really make me feel insecure. I'm pretty much a badass and a few cellulite wrinkles and some crooked teeth doesnt change that!

 

Hmm... I don't like the fact that I wear glasses, but that can be easily solved with a pair of lenses, so I try not to dwell on it. I used to have a problem with acne, but now my face looks quite well, aside from that time of the month... When I was around 16 I got a bit chubby, but since then I've lost weight, and all's well. Oh, and sometimes I feel like I'm a bit short compared to my mates(I'm 5'4", or something), but it's really not enough to make me feel insecure. I think that if we consider ourselves beautiful, then everyone else will too. It worked for me...

 

i like my body just the way it is.

 

I dont really have to may body issues i mean somedays i dont feel as prettyier then others and i dont really like my legs or hips ,but other then that i think im pretty.
Theres alot more things i love about myself then things i dont like so i try and focus on the good things.
&when it comes to others peoples oppinion i dont let it get to me everyone see beauty differently.
I mean your bound to be beautiful to someone.
&i know alot of girls who arent ugly there just kinda normal but there personalitys make them like soo pretty.
Theres beauty in everyone and if people just stoped judging themselves and others it would be alot easier to see.
Soo to all the beautiful people posting in this thread shut the fuck up your beauiful

 

I guess my main dislike about my body is my butt. I just dont think it's as cute as other butt's. Though I'm sure it's just an insecurity because I have had a few people comment that they think it look's really nice in jean's.

I also recon I have slightly broad shoulder's, though that's more of an annoyance than anything, especially if I want to wear a dress.