Browsing the archives for the Body Image category
I hate to spend so much time worrying or even wondering about what I look like but I know that really grasping the difference between me fat and me thin will help me to keep this weight off. So what do I know now?
I know how much I weigh and I know how tall I [...]
I have a little theory about body image that I’ve never written down before and here it is:
Women (and men?) have an image of themselves based on one or two body parts that concern them.
One rare day when the husband had joined me on a shopping trip I stepped out of a changing cubicle [...]
I’ve got a list somewhere that I can’t quite recall – maybe in my head. This list is studies that I would like to do or at least read the results of.
The study that came to mind yesterday would be titled something like: The effects of diet and exercise on self-perception.
All the [...]
It’s doppelganger week on facebook and I’ve been reminded of my total lack of visual recall. Basically, I don’t accurately remember what anything or anyone looks like. Instead, I remember vaguely and the result is that every time I say, “Doesn’t he look like so-and-so?!”, the answer is, “No, not at all.”
That applies to myself. [...]
I caught the tail end of some news magazine tv show a week or so ago. You know the kind, something like 20/20 or Dateline. It was talking about the magazine and internet ads for weight loss. You know the ones I mean, it shows a before and after picture and the ad says something [...]
OK….big deep breath……I think I finally see the body changes.
I went into town today and tried on some wool trousers. As usual I took a size I knew would fit and a size I thought might fit. The little ones were almost too big.
I repeated the exercise in another shop with the same results.
At one [...]
When I weighed 125 pounds and was running 8 miles at a time, I wore a size 10 and once, for about a week, I squeezed into a size 8.
Today, with 145 pounds of middle aged “shapeliness”, my size 6 jeans are getting a baggy.
It’s wrong! Nothing more than a cynical marketing ploy to keep [...]
I don’t want to sound fanatical, but where the heck do you measure your waist?
People who make clothes say it’s the narrowest part.
Dr Oz the You On A Diet guy says at the navel.
Other’s say just above the navel.
Well……those three places range from 33 to 36 inches – almost healthy to quite risky.
Any thoughts?
So what’s the verdict of the 3-way mirror? In a word: lumpy.
At least lumpier than I have been at this weight.
But I bought a dress and have decided to be less lumpy by Christmas though I can’t yet find it in me to make a major gym commitment.
It’s partly my fear of euphoria – whether [...]
I’ve got today free so I’m off to Manchester to try on clothes. I don’t care if I buy anything but I need to spend some time in front of three-way mirrors to get to grips with what I look like at the moment.
Wish me luck.