I'm not fat, I'm CURVY
I just love the fact that my husband tries his best to have tact when it comes to my weight and how he perceives it. After he hugged me last night, he pinched my waist and said, "OOOHH, your curves are disappearing." He was sincerely disappointed. It really cracked me up. He is forever complimenting my curves, even when my "curves" were truly just fat. I have been in training for my triathlon now for almost 2 months. I have lost a few inches here and there and gained a lot of muscle and fitness in the process. I don't know the amount of weight I have lost because I don't own a scale. My running is becoming so much easier and I am really looking forward to start my training on my bike and in the pool. It is funny how we set unattainable goals though. When I first started this, I wanted to get down to 115 lbs. I am only 5'3" so that weight is within my healthy range. Well, I have since got to terms with the fact that this will NEVER happen. I am not even sure I was 115 lbs 12 years ago. I have too many muscles and "curves". I embrace it. I love being freakishly strong. It's part of who I am. I was running the other day and a couple of ladies ran by me. They were so thin I thought they would probably get caught in the next burst of wind and I would have to anchor them down. It was so sad to me, I got to thinking that they must starve themselves and work out non stop. That is no way to live. It really made me appreciate my curves. :) Women out there-learn to appreciate and love your body. We all are unique and amazing.
posted by Pixie @ 10:53 AM
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6 Comments:
That is a good lesson to learn, it is so hard though. I have curves too, though I'm not overweight at all, my husband is constantly saying "I love your curves" when he first started saying it, it hurt my feelings, but now I understand what he is saying, that he loves my body, not that I'm fat.
It is so good to except who we are! :)
You are so disciplined too that is awesome.
I do have to stick up for the small boned people though :) When (and it has been years) I'm training a bunch... even when I eat a ton, it melts... its my build. I actually get rather curveless minus the hip bone. I have felt bad over the years with accusations of eating disorders and not looking womanly enough... but it is truley something I can not help if I'm working out and being healthy. The girls you saw may have totally been unhealthy and everything but sometimes it is just crazy matabolism and small bones...just representin' :)
You're too cute Zabs. I didn't mean to sound so insensitive...I know that there are plenty of women out there who are just thin. :)
Hi Pixie,
Congrats on the training and weight loss. In the last year I have dropped about 50 lbs. and feel excellent about it. I had some many curves that someone should have erected a caution sign on my ass...lol.
I haven't done it the "healthy" way, rather more like just not eating (breakup's will do that to you). But, now I'm wanting to tone up. You are an inspiration!
Take care and keep it up
Sublime
i don't really know you but assumed you didn't really mean it :) Just had to get my 2 cents in :)HA
I've been told both- you're too skinny and you're curvy. I NEVER felt bad about the too skinny and I suppose I deal with the curvy but its all subjective- still given a choice…
I've had friends who were told they were too skinny and they responded that it hurts their feelings. Later I realized/discovered that at least 2 girls specifically pretended to eat alot but really didn't and acted like they just wanted to be active for the healthy side of things when their main focus really was to be as thin as possible.
Now we all (at least most of us) try to look our best and in our society that means thin but some of us have more obstacles/less will power/whatever.
I'm not looking down on my too thin friends but the fact that they hid from everyone their focus on being thin and then pretended to be upset when it was noticed and that that was the goal... to me it is dishonest and probably leads to why people get so skeptical of really thin women.
Now I say this also because I suppose I was guilty of it myself in my younger too thin days. At my thinnest, when I was sickly looking, the excitement of being in the “too thin” category was something I LOVED but pretended that I didn't.
It is sort-of like rich people complaining they could just be "normal". Be normal; believe me you'd go back to being rich. IE: be overweight after being underweight... to me is sort-of along those lines (unless you learn to distance your thoughts from those typical of society or you are one of those amazing people who truly do find happiness with who you are).
I hope and pray we all become more accepting of ourselves the way we are when we’re living a healthy lifestyle.
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