Day 17 - On Beauty and Being a Woman

LilyN

05/04/2016 11:28AM
Great post and my mom is similar, just not to that extreme. She was a zumba addict for a while, where I was worried she was going to injure herself because she was going so often. She's always been on some kind of diet and critical of her body. While I was lucky in that she never directed any of that at my own weight, I feel like her attitude about her weight rubbed off on me. I always, always felt like I needed to lose weight. Even at my skinniest I thought I was fat. Even now as I'm in the process of losing weight, there are times that I think I'm doing awesome and look good, followed almost immediately by times that I feel like I'm super fat. I'm more aware of it now, but it's hard to overcome years of conditioning.

Tara Dee

I'm also so thankful that she never directed that toward me either, but you're right - it rubs off. Being aware of that is part of overcoming it and striking a healthy balance between feeling great and feeling terrible about our bodies.

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