Tell me what you really think.
You've been reading my mind.
and mine as well. (only i've got a tiny little subpost in there, thinking about bariatric surgery ...)
Ok, first of all, you do not/never will look like that. You look great right now, so stop it!
I have image problems too; who doesn't in our family? It's required.
And, yes, gynos HAVE seen this before--and worse!
And I love spending time with you, too...
No More Clichés
Beautiful face
That like a daisy opens its petals to the sun
So do you
Open your face to me as I turn the page.
Enchanting smile
Any man would be under your spell,
Oh, beauty of a magazine.
How many poems have been written to you?
How many Dantes have written to you, Beatrice?
To your obsessive illusion
To your manufactured fantasy.
But today I won't make one more Cliché
And write this poem to you.
No, no more clichés.
This poem is dedicated to those women
Whose beauty is in their charm,
In their intelligence,
In their character,
Not on their fabricated looks.
This poem is to you women,
That like a Shahrazade wake up
Everyday with a new story to tell,
A story that sings for change
That hopes for battles:
Battles for the love of the united flesh
Battles for passions aroused by a new day
Battles for the neglected rights
Or just battles to survive one more night.
Yes, to you women in a world of pain
To you, bright star in this ever-spending universe
To you, fighter of a thousand-and-one fights
To you, friend of my heart.
From now on, my head won't look down to a magazine
Rather, it will contemplate the night
And its bright stars,
And so, no more clichés.
~Octavio Paz
There is a certain classical form of exercise (NOT A FAD - over 5,000 years old!) that brings healthy self-image and feelings of beauty and grace, by the way.
I am a fitness instructor, so I'm coming at this from the perspective of someone who helps people overcome this sort of thing (granted, I don't always SUCCEED in helping them overcome it, but I do TRY).
My advice? Start small. Pick two little things that you can do - and that you know you can be successful at - and do them for a month. Then, add something else. Promise yourself, for example, that you'll park far away from the entrances to places you have to go and that you'll drink 16 ounces of water a day. After you get into those habits, start adding something else. Chip away at it - both your opinion of yourself and your physical self - gradually; it took time to get you here, it will take time to get you back.
This reminds me of how models are photoshopped
http://pandagon.net/2007/07/16/m...ying-our-minds/
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