tell me I am hot..???!!! WTF?

I would bang everyone that has replied, dudes included. F--k it, I am 40, time to try something new. What could it hurt? Well....I guess my *kitten*......

LOL. Thanks for the giggle! Maybe it's a "40" thing... is that when we all figure out that sex is great and we want more of it? Hence the cougars? LOL

Bah hahahaha That MADE my evening!! I will chuckle through my whole workout now... Thanks

I completely agree. I've seen many posts asking people on here what they think about the poster's looks. I'd love to be brave enough to do that. But I don't get compliments without pointedly asking for them.. so I am afraid to post something asking folks what they really think about my looks. I don't think my morale nor self-confidence could handle that. So on one hand I agree with you, OP, but on the other hand, I guess I am envious of the other posters' bravery in putting themselves out there for the critiques. <shrug> I would be ecstatic if someone thought I was hot, but I am also very much a realist and know what I see in the mirror is the furthest thing from what the general consensus has decreed "HOT" to be.

This is why this site needs a like button. LIKE! - I agree!!!

^^^This!!!!!!

Ok so I enjoy the posts in these forums as much as the next person, but I have decided that it is also very depressing at times. <insert whiney b*tch voice here> .. we all wish someone would say "wow you are hot!" but no, its just for the bikini clad photo ladies and gents! So instead of WOW you are HOT, I say SCRAM!!! Make room for the rest of us beauties that don't meet your standards!

Love this post!

Ok so I enjoy the posts in these forums as much as the next person, but I have decided that it is also very depressing at times. <insert whiney b*tch voice here> .. we all wish someone would say "wow you are hot!" but no, its just for the bikini clad photo ladies and gents! So instead of WOW you are HOT, I say SCRAM!!! Make room for the rest of us beauties that don't meet your standards!

Considering the weight you've lost so far and still going at it is very hot! All the exercising you've been doing to make yourself look and feel better is extremely attractive! Keep it up!

I haven't worn or owned a bikini since I was 2. It was cute then, not hot. I've never been called hot in my life. Honestly, I don't even know the last time someone told me I was even beautiful or pretty. It's been a few years since I've been called cute, but that is mostly what I was called before that.

As much as I did like what you have to say- You're not gonna get your self confidence by some strange man on MFP telling you you're hot. I don't have any bikini pics because Lord knows this belly does not need to be in one *yet* but I still get a few compliments But I talk to everyyyybody, generally always have a positive attitude and don't really give a flip if someone on here thinks I'm hot or not! I'm not on here to impress anyone. There are some gorgeous ladies on here, and they should have every right to flaunt what they have worked for! I plan on doing the same thing

Well, I don't participate in the "is the person above you hot" threads because I think they're silly, but I do wear a bikini in my profile pic, and I'm not wearing it so people will say I'm hot. I'm wearing it because I'm damn proud of the transformation I've made, and continue to make, to my body, and want to show others that it can be done (at 40) and that they can do it, too.

I'm more proud of the fact that I've gone from someone who ate Hamburger Helper or frozen pizzas every day of the week to someone who cooks nutritious meals most days of the week (still need my pizza once or twice). That I've gone from not being able to run 1/10th of a mile to being able to easily run a 10k in under and hour. That I've gone from being so weak and injury prone that I once threw out my back cleaning up cat puke to someone who regularly lifts weights.

But a picture of me being happy with how I look in a bikini sums it up nicely.

You guys remember back in your school days, how there were those kids who always had to make a perfect score on every test? And you knew they did it because they loved the asspats?

That's the same kind of person who has a bikini body, and has to ask for reassurance about how hot they are. Personally, I feel sorry for how insecure they must feel, to be that fit, and still need confidence boosts from random internet forums.

The only person it should matter to is you. Who cares if anyone else thinks your hot? Even if they told you, I think you'd have a hard time actually accepting the compliment until you truly believe it to be so. And I don't even specifically mean you, but people in general.

My profile pic is of my hot tummy... and OH YEAH! MY SPARTAN MEDAL!!!

No one told me I was hot when I wore my mankini.

Pictures or it didn't happen! XD

This!

No one told me I was hot when I wore my mankini.

Pictures or it didn't happen! XD

This!

Double this....

The only person it should matter to is you. Who cares if anyone else thinks your hot? Even if they told you, I think you'd have a hard time actually accepting the compliment until you truly believe it to be so. And I don't even specifically mean you, but people in general.

^^this!! Just remember us forty year old women are in our prime

Wait! Wait! Don't go. I am getting out my tighty whiteys.
Oh. That's not as hot as a man-kini, is it?