Comments on: Mirror, Mirror

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:34:33 +0000

Wow I’m bad with the typos. This thing needs an edit button or I need to get some sleep…

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 07:32:46 +0000

I hate all the hype at the same time I do want to lose weight… though I know I’ll never fit into skinny jeans. It’s bad when you do realize that you’ve suddenly gone up a size. I’m a big girl that I know. I’ve been a big girl since I had three children by c-section and an even bigger girl since giving up the cigarettes… I’d rather be fat and breathe than skinny and on an inhaler (because I was).

I had a slap in the face realization when I saw a photo of myself and I realize I had a major muffin top. It was scary. I had to go up a size in jeans and give away all my jeans. I don’t like to hold on to the ’skinny jeans’ in hopes i’ll fit into them again. It takes away all the fun of shopping when you actually do get skinny. For years after I had my first child I held on to my size 3/4 jeans, but finally they became not something I wished to be again, but a source of anger.. because life does not let go back to your 18 year old body no matter how hard you try. That’s why you’re only 18 once!

I do agree that the low rise jeans should be outlawed I honestly think the only woman that looks good in them is my sister she’s 5′9″ and probably weighs about 115 if that…

I want them to bring back the high rise jeans. Those are the best for a little extra to hide. Yeah, you might have to button them up under your boobs, but at least they hold the stomach in!

By: Dena

Dena — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:44:12 +0000

Wow, nice one girl. I, like you, have struggled with weight issues, diet fads and disease on this topic and happy to report I am healthier now in my 30’s than I ever was. Not like it happens overnight. It takes years to get into a healthy mindset. I am glad you wrote this and added those photos, which are appalling, but unfortunately true. And anytime someone can jump on this topic and try to help young girls realize that there IS such a thing as “too thin” and don’t believe everything you see in magazines.
Keep it up. You write SO well, self-deprecating but so witty I love it. I heart you!

By: Qelqoth

Qelqoth — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 14:20:13 +0000

Actually, I got mine at Gravatar, a service which gives you a universal avatar for the blogosphere. MyBlogLog works in a similar way although Gravatar is purely for avatars.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 06:03:17 +0000

Why would you wish for something you already have?

By: Karri

Karri — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 05:56:43 +0000

I actually know that song…love it and wish for it.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:58:34 +0000

She says, “Don’t stare at me.”/She’s afraid that I might see/Those five extra pounds she talks about./Man, I don’t know what she’s talkin’ ’bout./She looks through magazines,/With every page she dreams/of lookin’ like somebody else./I wish she wasn’t so hard on herself./Then she falls asleep with just my t-shirt on/But even when her hair’s messed up and her make-up’s gone…
You can’t hide beautiful.
You can’t hide wonderful.
There’s nothin’ that she has to do;
It just comes natural.
She makes it look easy.
I love what she does to me.
No way to disguise the way that she shines,
You can’t hide beautiful…

By: harleyblues

harleyblues — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:56:36 +0000

Cool posty! ta
hb~

By: Karri

Karri — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:02:12 +0000

The women at the office? I’m doomed! And also perhaps a bit of a hypocrite to some extent being as how I help people improve their looks on a daily basis. The sad truth is that we are all judged on what people see before they even take the opportunity to get to know what’s on the inside. So, if I can help someone have a little more self-confidence then I’ve done my job. I do like your advice though…thanks for sharing and putting it all in percpective.

By: Karri

Karri — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 03:57:25 +0000

Only when you wear your Speedo’s and I really wish you’d stop doing that!