Comments on: Mirror Image http://adayinthefatlife.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/mirror-image/ Exercise hard. Eat right. Die anyway. Fri, 23 Oct 2009 19:02:54 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: nightman1 http://adayinthefatlife.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/mirror-image/#comment-398 nightman1 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:55:10 +0000 http://adayinthefatlife.wordpress.com/?p=311#comment-398 Yet another neat evocation of a near-universal feeling experienced by the overweight, Ms Blogger! I'm male and 61 and have been 50 to 100 lbs. overweight since adulthood, except for a total of about 12 years when I was dieting. I'm also only 5' 5" tall. Being of a depressive turn of mind, I can't now seem to bring myself to accept the fact that there has NEVER been a time in my life when I got to experience being proud of my body. Why is that so insurmountable a fact now--when no-one expects me to look good? Because for each stage of life there are characteristic pleasures, and youth is the time for having a good body and showing it off a bit. Not for me. I was fat then. And so that particular pleasure of youth will never, ever come again for me. It is already lost in eternity--as lost as I soon will be. Some version of this awareness of irredeemable past loss is probably one of the greatest pains of aging for everyone. That doesn't make my particular regret any less painful. Yet another neat evocation of a near-universal feeling experienced by the overweight, Ms Blogger!

I’m male and 61 and have been 50 to 100 lbs. overweight since adulthood, except for a total of about 12 years when I was dieting. I’m also only 5′ 5″ tall.

Being of a depressive turn of mind, I can’t now seem to bring myself to accept the fact that there has NEVER been a time in my life when I got to experience being proud of my body.

Why is that so insurmountable a fact now–when no-one expects me to look good? Because for each stage of life there are characteristic pleasures, and youth is the time for having a good body and showing it off a bit.

Not for me. I was fat then. And so that particular pleasure of youth will never, ever come again for me. It is already lost in eternity–as lost as I soon will be.

Some version of this awareness of irredeemable past loss is probably one of the greatest pains of aging for everyone.

That doesn’t make my particular regret any less painful.

]]> By: miss kitten http://adayinthefatlife.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/mirror-image/#comment-396 miss kitten Mon, 12 Jan 2009 19:29:33 +0000 http://adayinthefatlife.wordpress.com/?p=311#comment-396 i've lost weight. i had fewer issues looking at myself *before* i lost weight, honestly. clothed is better, but DANG i loathe the mirror in the master bath. cause i can see myself down to my knees, you know? and the lose skin that isnt gonna go away is there. *sighs* as long as he thinks i'm adorable, i'm not gonna fuss too much. but its *there*. i’ve lost weight. i had fewer issues looking at myself *before* i lost weight, honestly. clothed is better, but DANG i loathe the mirror in the master bath. cause i can see myself down to my knees, you know?

and the lose skin that isnt gonna go away is there. *sighs* as long as he thinks i’m adorable, i’m not gonna fuss too much. but its *there*.

]]> By: Fatadelic http://adayinthefatlife.wordpress.com/2009/01/07/mirror-image/#comment-392 Fatadelic Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:54:16 +0000 http://adayinthefatlife.wordpress.com/?p=311#comment-392 That's progress :) That’s progress :)

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