Are you comfortable in your skin?

[Traci66]

So many people appear to have hang ups about their bodies, why?

[chaptazbru]

I am now, wasn't when I was much younger.

[Paul22118]

Never been slim, not seriously overweight now, BUT I would love to know what it is like to be slim and slender(and healthy of course). Have just nevr had that experience in all my long life.

[petal54]

I've never felt that I'm in the correct body,not sure why

[ummmm]

Yes....I've never had body hang ups.

[China Doll]

I'm comfortable with who I am. I don't hate the way I look but there's certainly room for improvement! I would happily change quite a lot of things about how I look if the opportunity arose but I don't spend my every waking hour worrying about it either.

[jno]

thanks to careful management, I have not just kept my youghtful figure, I have doubled it. I wouldn't say I was hung up but it would be nice (and probably healthier) to be thin again.

[islasmum]

I'm not happy in my body - I am obese, but trying to do something about it. About 12 years ago I was very seriously ill, and lost masses of weight and went down to 8st 12lbs which I hadn't been since I was about 13! The joy of going into shops, and not having to look for the larger garments was wonderful. And I carried on getting better and gradually the weight started to go on again, which I didn't mind to begin with because weighing that little didn't suit me. But in the last few years the weight has just carried on going on - and I'm a real yo-yo dieter, which I'm also trying to change, I worked out the other day that I was carrying the equivalent to another (very slim) person around with me, which I think has helped me to be really serious about trying to lose weight. So, in answer to he question No,I'm not happy in my body at present, but hopefully I will be fairly soon. (and I think I have quite nice eyes!)

[EcclesCake]

If I'm honest no, however I think others have more of a problem with my appearance than I do.

[brenda]

I am quite happy with how I look and what I weigh, am not concerned with what magazines say or with what others see. Life is far to short in my view for all the angst that appearances can cause.
I honestly do not know what all the fuss is about and think that perhaps if people were not brainwashed by the media , and were able to focus instead on being a nice person the world would be a better place.

[EvianBaby]

If I had a spare 10k the first thing I'd do would be to find the nearest plastic surgeon.

[vodkancoke]

I have never liked the way I look. It's become worse the older I get. I don't moan about it or go on and on about it because it's my problem! lol Evian, I'm with you...if ever I win that blasted Lottery I am heading to Harley St!

[sinderella]

Let us be grateful that the mirror only reflects our appearance only!

[puddle-duck]

The older I've got the more I've felt that you only live once. I am who I am. If I can accept me for who i am, then I don't waste time or thought on those that can't.

I don't have a perfect body, I don't class myself as beautiful...but I'm me. I have a few good qualities, my health & healthy kids. If anyone has a problem then...tough :)

[Jeza]

I weigh just less than 8 stone. At 5 foot 4 I'm told I'm too thin. I'm happy with my weight. It's other people that are not.

[nungate]

I'm happy enough with who I am and how I look, though there is room for improvement, I'd like a body that works better than the one I have as I'm fed up with having arthritis and how it limits some things I like to do. Otherwise, I don't care, if people can't accept me for what I am it's their problem not mine, I don't lose any sleep over other people's opinion of me.

[craft1948]

I'm not bothered about being fatter or thinner..............I'd just like to be fitter.

[Jeza]

Good answer Craft. Though I will not be joining you at the Gym. I have enough to do.

[Ann]

All my life (I'm 64) I have longed to be slim, the least I have ever weighed was 10 stone (but it was when I was ill) and the most 13 stone 4lbs. I now am always around the 12 and half stone mark and I just have to accept that's how I was made, as no matter how healthily I eat I always stay the same. I just wish my best friend wasn't such a model figure, she puts any clothes on when we go shopping together and they look lovely on her whereas I shudder at the sight of myself in the changing room mirror ....... sigh....... but I have to count my blessings, at least I am healthy :)

[craft1948]

lol Jeza I used to get withdrawal symptoms if I didn't go to the gym 4 times a week..................now the thought of going brings me out in a sweat (although I do have a treadmill in the garage)