Body Image

Hi everyone and thanks for your comments regarding me getting back to my WW's goal weight. Now I just have to get rid of another couple of kilo's but seeing as this weeks loss was a "huge" 100 grams I think it may take me a while to actually get there. That leads me to my body image bit. As women ( I don't think any men read my blog) we are so hard on ourselves. I know I am and I do read on other blogs how so often we are dissatisfied with bits of our bodies. Now that I'm almost where I want to be I do feel heaps better and generally think I look pretty OK. That of course is when one stands face on to the mirror or even sideways when I am conscious of standing straight and holding myself in. My body has toned up but there are still bits I would like to improve. Well one really big bit in particular which is my stomach. In clothes it passable but I know it is flabby and no where near washboard flat. Realistically, I know that at 44, 3 kids later and many years of yo yo diets it is not going to improve much more no matter how much more weight I lost. Surgery is the only thing that probably would help it and that is one avenue I am not going down. If money was no object and I didn't have adverse reactions to General anesthetic well that might be different!!!! LOL . have recently become so much more conscious of looking at other slim women's tummies!!! This started after a doctors appointment last week with my really skinny female GP who has been really supportive of my weight loss efforts. She commented how good I looked in my skimpy Summer clothes and instead of just accepting the compliment gracefully ( do we ever?) I of course had to point out the rolls I still have around my middle. She laughed and said that she too had them and in fact most "real' women have them and then she showed me that she actually did. I had never ever noticed, I had always just looked at her and saw this slim woman - the whole woman! I was really shocked but rather encouraged that maybe it wasn't just me that had the rolly bits. So of course now I have turned into quite the voyeur looking at other slim women and checking out whether they too have wobbly bits around their middles and surprise surprise lots of them do. It's just that generally when we look at other women unless you're doing "research" like I am we generally look at the whole picture and don't hone in on one bit. I have to learn to accept compliments gracefully and realise that we are real women and not in fact Terri Hatcher. I mention her because I was stunned this week when I watched Desperate Housewives at how stick thin her arms were, never mind there's not much else either. I thought my arms were toning up nicely until I saw hers!! This time last year I just thought she was slim and gorgeous but now I'm really analyzing her and Nicolette Sheridan. I hate to think what they must have to do to get their bodies that skinny and boy it's role models like them that give us so many unrealistic expectations.
For a fantastic "real" role model check out Sue and her incredible effort today. Now that's one awesome woman!!!!!