Is ANYONE happy with their body?

This is the thing........I have lost 50lbs albeit over the last 5 years, but it has been fairly easy to keep the weight off.  I am now 5ft4 and 117lbs so happy with weight, however I still can't say that I am happy with myself.  If you'd have said to me 5 years ago that I would be my current weight someday I would have been ecstatic and would have thought that I would be a 'me' fan, however that's just not the case.

I guess I am feeling guilty for not liking myself, when there are many people that would give their right arms to be my weight and so I was wondering if anyone out there actually likes themselves??

xx

I think that almost everyone dislikes something about their body. I try to look at the silver lining, you know. "I hate the shape of my face, but man, since I lost the weight, my legs look AWESOME!" Sort of thing. dwell on the positives, not the negatives! :D

EDIT: Congrats on the weight loss, btw!!

I'm happy that I HAVE a body and that I'm alive and mostly able-bodied!

:)

That's about the best I can do...

But I don't HATE my body, I just accept it.

I've lost roughly 20 pounds and i still have yet to completely like how i look. I don't see too much of a difference, however i try to find the differences like how i can see more definition in my abs (start to a 6 pack) and though my i hate my legs being so huge, now its b/c of more muscle and not fat (how it originally was)

Unfortunately, a lot of us have body image issues that go far deeper than just our weight.  I've lost all the weight I wanted to, but I still look in the mirror and see something different than what the rest of the world sees.  I wish it wasn't the case, but I think it always will be...

you are right nomoreexcuses and that's why i am struggling to cope with the guilt.  I think also that I am on summer break from Uni (I'm a very mature student!) and have little to concentrate the mind until I go back in October, hence I direct my concerns inwards.  I had hypnotherapy to try to make me grateful for what I've got, what I am etc but so far that's not worked and am now trying a homeopathic remedy (I think I have it quite bad to be honest). I am truly grateful to be fit and healthy beautiful child and good healthy people all around me, so can't understand my feelings right now.

I meant to say ....and have a healthy beautiful child.....wasn't clear, sorry.

I love my body! The reason I say this is because it is very responsive to what I do to it. I work out, and it gets smaller, I eat a lot, it gets bigger, etc, etc. I know that the goals I have set out for mysef will work in the long run because of the body that I have. I am healthy, for the most part, and am extremely happy with my body. I just had dinner yesterday with a long time friend who went from 140 to 113 and is still unhappy. She looks in the mirror and does not feel beautiful-you see this girl and she is drop dead gorgeous!!

I've been at 125 and have been very happy with myself.

Can't wait to get there again!!!   :-)

I'm very happy with my body.  No one has a better body than me.  I am the most beautiful person in the world.

I love my body, I just want it to be healthier.

 My body is the most powerful instrument I own.

I think that most folks have some aspect of their bodies that they don't like, that's normal.  I may not be happy with everything, but I'm 45 lbs happier than I used to be! :D

Bodylove... well I love my body for carrying me around each day, enabling me to do all the things I wanna do and I am not self-consciencous about It say when having sex or at the public pool.

But no doubt there are some parts that I'd rather they were less flabby, like my tummy and thighs.

Bottom line, your body is your temple! (Yes I know that's cheesy but it's soo true). Treat it like a temple.

I'm not happy with my body even now, but I'm far less unhappy with it than I used to be. I used to absolutely hate what I saw in the mirror, and now I like some parts and dislike others and overall it washes to about neutral.

I'm pretty happy at 5'5" and 160...I'm looking forward to 150 & 140, but 160 is in shape enough to do all the activities that I want to and get compliments from both genders.  My stomach doesn't jiggle very much and my arms are beginning to show muscle tone.  My legs have lost the jiggly thighs.  One has to look pretty closely to find something to criticize.

i think we all have such a disorted image of what a body should look like because in magazines everyone is AIRBRUSHED so of course theyre going to look amazing.

but yeah i dont think anyone has ugly bodies, it just depends on how you look at it.

few people are perfectly appreciating their body, you should learn to accept it.

I just stopped caring and started living with my body the way it is, do it all and not wait forever till my body is perfect.. slowly I learned to apreciate it and accept it.

ofcourse there are some things I'd like to change, but they are not a priority.. maybe some day when I'm bored of life I'll go through surgery :)

im going to take it as this when i hit my goal wt:

-got the wt thing

-now time to sculpt and tone what i am not happy with

even models have problem areas that need more attention than others. it should make you unhappy. if you dont like it change whats bothering you.

and i do suggest to go through old photos to see how far you have come with your efforts.

take other things from life as well that make you proud to be who you are. without the body thing included. balance.

My 9 year old son struts his stuff. His body is him.  He is a little heavy ( 10-15 pounds)  and he says that is okay cause it will give his body the energy to be tall. He is happy to be big enough know to be able to walk our 70 pound dog by himself and be able to control her when she wants to jerk away after a dog or a squirrel or a branch in the wind.

He is at peace with who and what he is ..... I think we can all learn from that.

Have a great day and remember you are a work art in progress ---- enjoy the journey.

 

Jellikal 

 

I've come such a long way, from 170+ to 135 and I am not  happy with my body.. Even thought I am technically not classified as overweight I don't fell like I look like Im at a healthy weight.. I am coming to the realization that no matter what I do I sill will never have the body of a 21 year old girl.. There are things that are inevitable ie) I have very small boobs and my inner thigh area will always be chubby (it runs in the family) strecth marks from the kids. So bascially Im not going to lose weight until all the fat from my inner thigh disapears b/c I know that isnt going to happen so Ill just continue doing what im doing and working on the parts I can change.. Make sense?  hahah

I am happy with my body. I want to lose weight, thats to get my bmi in the healthy range and to get back to a dress size i know i feel good in.

When i look at my figure in the mirror of course there are things i don't like, but there alot of stuff i love too. My man loves my figure too and for someone like me thats very important.

I like being curvy, i love having boobs, and a bum. Okay so i think my tummy and my thighs and my arms need some work. But i'm getting closer to that goal everyday.