I'm the IM about to turn 40 and hating my body. I've seen some gorgeous comments on the thread, and I'm feeling very uplifted to read them. I'm also amused at the assumptions being made about my lifestyle. I'm not thin: I'm size 14. I lift weights and eat clean. I can run and am in perfect health. I get waxed, plucked and whatevered. I also had a lump removed from my right breast 4.5 years ago which left a scar which reminds me "there but for the grace of God go I". I had an accident two years ago which left me scarred on my left arm, hip, knee and foot. In fact, my foot was almost skun and I bear a huge puckered mark on the top of it. I'm not a princess, neither am I a couch potato. I'm a mum like most others here and I'm having a crisis of confidence. Thanks for all the comments x
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That is the reason I don't visit the Facebook page. I'm a gym junkie, have a PT session once a week, lift weights blah, blah, blah. I weigh 100kgs and am a size 14. I'm 5ft 2. I walk 8kms a day on top of my normal daily stuff.
I eat extremely healthily.
I will always have wrinkles, scars, excess skin,and wobbly bits. There is a lot more to it than working harder. A lot of it is genetics and luck of the draw.
It took me a long time to be ok with my flaws and see that the important people don't see the flaws as flaws.