Do you love your body currently?

Yes, I love my body, but there is always room for improvement.

nope!! i loved my pre-pregnancy body, i was a size 10/12 but that is probably my ideal natural size, any smaller and i would have looked ill. now im anywhere between a 16 and a 20 (uk sizes) and i hate everything about my body except my lower legs, as there is no fat on them, just muscle due to all the sports i play. the tops of my arms are quite muscly too, but ive bingo wings that spoil them

I'm not ecstatic about the way I look, but I know that outer appearance is only one part of the puzzle. I am ecstatic, however, that every day when I look in the mirror I am getting a better glow about me because I am eating better and filling my body with healthy things. I just look healthier. I am proud that I can tell a difference, no matter how small, in my love handles or in the size of my thighs. Focus on the positive or you're bound to get too discouraged to continue.

Failing to plan means planning to fail... so plan to compliment yourself each time you look in the mirror instead of getting down on yourself!

I hate my body the way it looks but I'll always have that issue. I love my body because it's alive, takes me places, most of my 'parts' work and it will help me on my journey to getting fit. I just have to use my brain first.

I've been wondering if any other people just get down about the way they look on this 'journey', I've always always always hated the way I look and even doing this sometimes I just feel like I'm going backwards or nowhere. I just feel like my body always looks crap and what I'm trying to ask is do you actually like your bodies while you're trying to lose weight or just despise the way you look and how do you deal with it?
I have no idea how to feel better about my body other than when I reach my UGW, I just don't know how to love my body in the current state or any state its in other than what i picture in my head.

Sorry this was sort of a rant that ended up into a question
does this question even make sense?
anyway.

Can definitely relate. In my case think it has something to do with my childhood and how emphasized it was in my house to be "thin" and "healthy." I was always the curvy one with the "baby fat" and my parents always brought it up, so my siblings would make sure I never forgot that I was the one with the thick thighs and boobs while they were very lean (everyone was built like runners in my house, I was built like Kim Kardashian, bahahaha, can you say milkman baby?). ANYWAY, if you ever need someone to talk to, feel free to add me. Working on our self confidence and mental health is just as important as being physically healthy. And you'll never be happy if you lose your weight and don't love your body, because it'll never be enough. That's why I always end up gaining weight back, because I never love how I look.

Big hugs, I bet you look great.

I have a love/hate relationship with it. Some days I'm very happy with it, and other days I can't stand to look at myself. I still find myself showering the dark occasionally. But, I think I'm one of those people that will never be satisfied. I'm at my original goal weight, and when I got here I decided it wasn't good enough. Then, other days, I'm so proud of myself for getting here. Maybe I'm just bat-**** crazy.

I definitely know how you feel. Some days I look at myself and hate myself even more than I did before I lost weight. I was heavier but more confident. lol Now I just obsess about absolutely everything I put in my mouth because I know I am almost there and one day I will be at my UGW. Sometimes I have a picture of what I want to look like in my head and if I don't look like that, I just get so down on myself. Usually the picture I have in my head is a gorgeous victoria secret model....so that never helps me. LOL (Considering I am a stumpy 5' girl) I know the feeling girl.

Hang in there and realize that you have made progress and your body deserves a little bit of recognition. If you start to love your body, it'll love you back, and you will realize that you do look great! (even before your UGW)

I definitely do not love my body. Then again, I don't love anyone's body lol. I have never been into the outward shell of anyone. No matter how beautiful someone may be by social standards their personality can make them hideous. On the flip side, no matter how ugly someone is by social standards their personality can make them beautiful. In my opinion people's standards of what physical beauty is is greatly influenced by what the current trends in their society is, and to me beauty is more about the whole person regardless of what the current trend in beauty is or is not.

I love my body and try to take care of it. It is my only home after all...lol

I hate the fat on my body. My body itself isn't too bad (when it's not overstuffed with too much batting like some poor girl's bear at Build-a-Bear).

Love the boobs. (Ignore the droop.)

Love the muscles. Love the flexibility. Love the curly hair and the high cheekbones.

But I hate the fat that envelops my frame. Everything else is fine. I wish the fat would go away. I want to peel it off like a banana skin.

Sometimes I dream I'm a statue made of soft clay. If only I could sculpt away those bits of me I dislike--that ruin the line and shape and art of my form.

The little toe on my left foot - hate it.

The rest of me I'm ok with :laugh:

I don't hate it. But I don't love it either.

YUP...I hate my body too....I hate my stomach the most, despite never having kids it is my worst body part....ever seen cellulite on a stomach?? well mine has it!!! I refuse to love my body until it starts looking the way I want it to LOL most annoying part is I work my *kitten* off and still don't get the results I want...:o(

I am in love with myself... I look better than when I was on my 20s

:laugh: I'm a very confident person and I like how I look (I like the shape of my body), I am pretty well proportioned considering my current weight. Now that I'm actively dating, I'm trying to be the best person I can be (inside & out), since obviously most people are attracted physically before anything else. My numbers (bloodwork. bp, chlorest. etc) are all good and in the heathy range, but I'd like to be more fit for my active girls so that we can ski, swim and do all the fun stuff and look good doing it :happy: And at my cw, I really need to be down at least 50 lbs. So here I am :bigsmile: