Least favourite body part

claireychn074

A discussion I overheard made me think about some people’s obsession with one body part; the person I overheard was convinced that slimmer arms would turn her life around.

My least fave body part is my lungs. I can cope with the short stumpy legs (good for weightlifting), the weird skin from hyper mobility, even the past cancer as it made me live more in the day. But my asthma irritates the *kitten* out of me. It interferes in life, reacts to stupid stuff like coriander and interrupts sleep. If I could swap my lungs and immune system I would.

But slimmer arms? Nah, I’m good thanks 😀

kshama2001

When I was in high school it was my large feet and calves. I'm long over that. My large feet proved to be an asset in yoga and the calves are inconsequential unless trying to fit into high-calve boots, but it is NBD to find lower boots.

Currently, the least favorite part of my body is my fibroids, but I'm not willing to give up my uterus to get rid of them, and am waiting for the decrease in estrogen at menopause to shrink them. I'll be 55 in Dec, so any time now...

corinasue1143

To look at— was my knees when at normal weight. It’s my bat wings now.

Functioning— thyroid.

BarbaraHelen2013

Meh, I hate it all! Too short, hair very fine and thin, nose too big, feet too wide for their size, tummy not flat (4 kids and a total abdominal hysterectomy for fibroids will do that!), workman’s hands (wide and stumpy like my feet!), boobs too big, no butt to speak of….shoulders too broad and square,

Legs are ok, except I’m too short so they’re short too, even if decently shaped and slim.

I’m a mess, what can I say! 🤷‍♀️

On the other hand, I’m healthy as a horse at 60 with no medical issues so I guess it’s served me well enough - I’d just change the aesthetics 😂

springlering62

claireychn074 wrote: »

A discussion I overheard made me think about some people’s obsession with one body part; the person I overheard was convinced that slimmer arms would turn her life around.

My least fave body part is my lungs. I can cope with the short stumpy legs (good for weightlifting), the weird skin from hyper mobility, even the past cancer as it made me live more in the day. But my asthma irritates the *kitten* out of me. It interferes in life, reacts to stupid stuff like coriander and interrupts sleep. If I could swap my lungs and immune system I would.

But slimmer arms? Nah, I’m good thanks 😀

I’m just here to find out what you mean by wierd skin from hyper mobility.

Over the past couple years, I’ve learned to love and, better yet, accept it all - though I will confess to a life changing reduction nine or ten years ago.

Lietchi

My skin, it has always been my skin. Acne in the face (from when I was 12 till now, at 38 still) and so many stretch marks.
Having lost nearly 70lbs, the stretch marks look a whole lot worse now than when I was obese, combined with loose skin (but if I hadn't become obese, I wouldn't have had as many stretch marks).

My other 'lesser' areas are peanuts compared to those. Well, perhaps my 'resting *kitten* face' deserves a mention too, apparently it scares some people off, lol.

But functionally? My body has not given me any significant trouble at all, really no complaints, I'm lucky!

lokihen

My wonky pancreas.

AnnPT77

Thinking of bodies as collections of parts is IMO a strange side-effect of having analytic brains (which of course are just one of those integrated parts).

I think it's natural for any of us to wish we didn't have to cope with parts that act up, as OP's lungs do. (For me, it's knees mostly, and eyes the last few years, plus some trivia elsewhere - at this point, it's all got a few miles on it, y'know? 😆) The parts that tried to kill me left surgically, with extreme prejudice, quite a few years back. I don't miss them.

I *am* my body - what remains, anyway - as a totality. I don't really understand that impulse to think my life would be revolutionarily better if some part of me *looked* different. (Is that just a compartmentalized form of self-hatred? 🤷‍♀️)

A lot of parts, ones that could change, that I'd perhaps like to change, I can work on. I don't need to dislike them. The ones that can't change, or I don't want to put in the work it would take, I need to live with. Fussing about things I can't change, or things that aren't changed yet, just seems like unnecessary negativity in the moment, spoils the now.

Others' mileage varies, as usual. 😉

ninerbuff

Hamstrings. I can't get them rounder like I can my biceps. So my legs are more spindly looking. But it's a minor issue. Overall I'm pretty satisfied about how I'm built.

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claireychn074

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I’m just here to find out what you mean by wierd skin [/quote]

🤣🤣 I have extra stretchy skin, so my knees for instance are permanently wrinkly and I can make faces with them. Thought everyone could pull their skin a couple of inches but it turns out it’s not “normal”. It’s no biggy, just a weird thing!

Deviette

My knees.

I've learned to love (well, more like, not dislike) all the other parts of my body, but my knees are weirdly shaped and look weird.

Also I have a family history of bad knees, so that's also a thing.

sijomial

My left knee.
Lost 90% of the lateral cartilege and severed the posterior cruciate ligament,
It's given me pain for 30 years, has restricted my exercise and sports choices and will end up needing a knee replacement some time in the future.

39flavours

My boobs, they cause me so much pain and hassle. Can't do high impact stuff unless I'm willing to restrict my breathing with super tight sports bras. Can't find swimwear that fits a large bust but small waist and short height but I love swimming. Have to wear extra layers in summer to hide industrial bras. Back pain and shoulder pain, poor posture and lordosis causing trapped nerves. Skin rashes underneath from sweating. They get in the way when sleeping and they're lopsided, one is much bigger than the other and I have to wear pads on them so they don't show through my clothes. They get in the way and restrict my mobility and I'm always spilling stuff on them. They're pointless and annoying and life would be so much easier without them.

Walkywalkerson

I always focus on my belly - it has never been flat even when I was slim size 8/10 (UK size)
At 5ft 7 I was quite lean - but my belly never has never been flat.
Now at a size 16 and around 30 / 40lbs overweight and 15yrs older my belly is the first thing I see when I look in the mirror.

springlering62

39flavours wrote: »

My boobs, they cause me so much pain and hassle. Can't do high impact stuff unless I'm willing to restrict my breathing with super tight sports bras. Can't find swimwear that fits a large bust but small waist and short height but I love swimming. Have to wear extra layers in summer to hide industrial bras. Back pain and shoulder pain, poor posture and lordosis causing trapped nerves. Skin rashes underneath from sweating. They get in the way when sleeping and they're lopsided, one is much bigger than the other and I have to wear pads on them so they don't show through my clothes. They get in the way and restrict my mobility and I'm always spilling stuff on them. They're pointless and annoying and life would be so much easier without them.

Sweetie, you sound just like me except you forgot to mention the staring, and the male customers who would come every month to “visit your boobs”, as a coworker so delicately put it.

And the brown hollowed out “dents” they left above my hips where they rested, which are only now starting to disappear.

I felt like boobs with arms and legs attached. A Spongebob of boobs.

A reduction was life changing, quite honestly, even more so than the weight loss. I could go out in public and didn’t feel like everyone stared. I don’t even care if the headlights show anymore.

The only time I ever felt any love for them (outside of breastfeeding) was one time I was traveling in Beijing and was in a very untouristed area. I was sitting on a stone wall while the rest of my family was in a shop. A small crowd of men and women gathered and began pointing at my chest. An elderly man spoke to me politely, and then bowed very deeply and respectfully, and I realized that, instead of being a freak of nature in a country of small bosomed women, I was being respected as some kind of goddess. It was really weird and surreal but not at all sexual like in the West.

And if someone here is Chinese, please don’t tell me anything else. Leave me to me own surmises.

springlering62

claireychn074 wrote: »

I’m just here to find out what you mean by wierd skin [/quote]

🤣🤣 I have extra stretchy skin, so my knees for instance are permanently wrinkly and I can make faces with them. Thought everyone could pull their skin a couple of inches but it turns out it’s not “normal”. It’s no biggy, just a weird thing![/quote]

Interesting. I’m hyper mobile, too, but the extra skin on my knees is from weight loss. If it’s bagging, it usually means I’m dehydrated.

Now the Floam ring around my belly, that is moldable, and the source of endless bathtub fun.

SuzySunshine99

Easy...I view my entire reproductive system the same way I view my husband's sports car...

I've never used it, it's expensive to maintain, and causes nothing but problems.

Viking_Dad

Love handles. I can get down to 15% bf and they still don't go away.

MaggieGirl135

A little less tummy and bust, please…

amusedmonkey

My back, because it's beyond redemption and being bed bound every now and then is a fact of life. I don't dwell too much on it, though. My motto in all things is "accept and adapt", so I'm past hating my back (or any other part of my body for that matter) because I would rather have a bad back than have a bad back AND feel miserable about it. Looks-wise, nothing. I just don't think too much about it. Loose skin and lumpy fat deposits? Meh, I've lost a *kitten* ton of weight, so what else do you expect? It's either that or diabetes, and I know what I like better.

39flavours

@springlering62 lol, I'm not sure how I'd feel if I had been in that situation, being given reverence and respect for the size of my bosom! Probably it would have triggered my righteous feminist side and annoyed me quite a bit! Luckily I don't have much issues with staring, I generally stay away from public spaces when I can and do a good job of avoiding eye contact and slouching and wearing loose high necked clothes to hide my chest when I can't. If I win the lottery then a breast lift and reduction will be the first thing I do, once I've got to my goal weight so I can see what's left to be dealt with.