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Originally Posted by Lovinlife59912 It gets frustrating to continually read ads that say looking for HWP, when after five kids I do have a belly but I can still rock my husbands world no problem.  |
I know what you mean, WTF does HWP mean?! I only have one child, but it's taken me 27 years of back and forth with the weight and I'm still a long way from goal. Still, I don't consider myself bad looking.
I am overweight and I always will be ~according to the charts. I am a
big girl, but I'm strong (work out a lot!) and have great muscle tone for the most part and am fit from a cardiovascular standpoint. Sure, I would like to look like a hard-body, but I will settle for just being the best me that I can be. I'm happy with myself most of the time, but its taken work to get to this point. I would much rather be me, than to be a skinny weakling.
Several years ago, I went through this self-help phase, went to a bunch of CareerTrack seminars and bought a bunch of positive affirmation type tapes to listen to in the car. That helped a lot! If you can't love yourself, no one else can either. Every day I look at myself in the mirror and say something nice to me: "You're awesome!" or "You look nice today!" or "I love the person you are..." or something like that. We all tend to be pretty hard on ourselves, so I try to do as much positive self talk as I can. It's amazing how it works!