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Womens weekend positivity... what do you like about your body? (lazysoci.al)
submitted 1 day ago by CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al to c/WomensStuff@lazysoci.al
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Women are trained to value themselves by their appearance and simultaneously hate it. We're too fat, legs too short, wrong shape, stretch marks from childbirth etc etc. And it's so much worse if you're trans, non white and so on. What do you like about your body?

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[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My curves 😊 I've come a long way in accepting my body and coming to enjoy being in my own skin. Being somewhat overweight has been an insecurity for a long time, especially comparing myself to how much I used to weigh. Had a big moment recently where I realized that I love my body so much more now than I did then and that even if I could go back to being the same weight, which was underweight, I wouldn't want to. I'd rather be the size I am now. I still have some health goals in mind but I lost any feeling of like regret or wishing I could go back to having the body I had then.

[–] CheeseToastie@lazysoci.al 4 points 16 hours ago

This is fantastic Autumn, it's really hard to have a successful relationship with our weight. You've had a lot of difficulties with it, and a lot of insecurity. It's all understandable but hard to overcome, and you've got to the point you genuinely like your body. It's great work well done