[Yudster]

This is a mind set I am all too familiar with.

[S4B]

Which is why you stay the wrong side of the camera?!

[unclejoesmintballs]

hey been there done that i may be young but have already lived a full life people jibe at my weight but what i see is a person depriving themselves of good food and wine im sure not my ideal weight but am not thin which to me shows ppl limit themselves to what they enjoy

[claradooblue]

I thought i'd avoid this thread like the plague, as i dislike this subject, but sod it here i am. I probably spend about 95% of my time feeling absolutly ravenous, due to hardly eating anything and it's been this way since i was a teenager. Unfortunatly for me, i think my body as result of this now acts as it would in a famine, so when i do eat a bit, the weight piles on at a rate that it really shouldn't. The theory being, i guess, that it immediatly stores any calories for the inevitable prolongued period of starvation that will follow.
Motto: never diet, particularly as a teenager, it'll bugger up your body for life.
Rant over.

[Nicola_Red]

This is a mind set I am all too familiar with.

me too. seems like all us women are. *sigh*

[S4B]

This is a mind set I am all too familiar with.

me too. seems like all us women are. *sigh*

But you are beautiful Nicola and you don't look overweight to me honey

[Zoot]

This is a mind set I am all too familiar with.

me too. seems like all us women are. *sigh*

But you are beautiful Nicola and you don't look overweight to me honey

I would

[S4B]

See what I mean Nicola?!!!

[Boboff]

S4b, in your pic Chris looks fatter than you ! and he's happy.

Did you see Trinny & Suzanna Last night? the woman looked so much better after the transformation. No matter what your size or shape within reason I think that with a little bit of styling you can look back at the mirror and see for yourself, a lovely thing

[S4B]

Hmmm
Boboff I guess it's easier for a bloke to feel happy with how he is because they have less peer pressure (I may get shot down in flames for that)

Lottie I'm bigger than a 16 honey. Had a c section when I had my boys and I have no feeling in the skin on my tummy and I have the nasty envelope thing going on. It's v difficult to look good naked or clothed with all that going on

[Nicola_Red]

Thankyou S4B and Zoot, I do appreciate it. I saw How To Look Good Naked last nite too (why is it up against Trinny & Susannah??) and I agree she looked fantastic. There was also a fashion shoot of some "plus-size" models in last sunday's Observer mag and they looked amazing too. it's just hard to see oneself the same way.

[S4B]

The Plus Size models never seem to be as big as me. Also they tend to be tall and I'm only 5'1'' which makes the whole package less appealing

[S4B]

Mind you men do tend to look after you if you're little honey and I'm shorter than you so don't worry about that

[MK Chris]

I thought women got round that by wearing heels.

[foot-loose]

I'm 5ft3 and get sick of being called midget or little lottie.

Like out of Phantom?

[Nicola_Red]

I thought women got round that by wearing heels.

I'm 5'7" and would love to be a bit shorter. When I wear heels I feel like a giant.

[Zoot]

Fancy giving me a couple of inches?

Must... bite... my... lip....

[Nicola_Red]

Fancy giving me a couple of inches?

yeah, why not. The ironic thing is one of my legs used to be two inches shorter so I had the potential...but I had to have the bloody thing lengthened so I didn't keep limping and messing up my spine.

[foot-loose]

Fancy giving me a couple of inches?

Must... bite... my... lip....

Its just too easy aint it!

[Nicola_Red]

I've had that. My pelvis had twisted round so my leg went up into the gap meaning one was shorter than the other so I gained about an inch which was nice.

ooh did you have an external fixator too? there's a pic of mine on my myspace (http://www.myspace.com/nicola_red) and one of my scars too.

[MK Chris]

God, we're a board of cripples!

[foot-loose]

Better than a board of nipples.

[MK Chris]

Depends what the nipples are like.

[Boboff]

Fancy giving me a couple of inches?

I will !

[MK Chris]

That's my pet hate; cracking your bones. Mrs Topher does it, I tell her she'll get arthritis but she says it's just an old wives tale... out of interest, can anyone back me up?