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[vyvyanx]

You know, with this new mirror we've got now, I noticed this morning as I was getting dressed that I can see all my ribs quite easily. Maybe I am too thin.

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[lnr]

You don't look painfully thin to me when I see you with clothes on :-) If you're happy with how you are I shouldn't worry too much about it, people do worry too much about some ideal of attractiveness that we're all supposed to reach. I've no idea what's the best way to put weight *on* though if that's what you wanted to do though. It seems it's much easier to find advice on how to lose it.

*hugs* hope your cold's improving anyway. My parents seem to have brought us one while they were visiting, rather than vice versa.

[vyvyan.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I feel rather silly wondering about being too thin when I know so many people at the moment who are trying to lose weight. I'm not really bothered by it, and like you say, I don't look particularly skinny with clothes on :-) I guess I was surprised when I saw myself in the mirror this morning, that's all. I'm concerned that maybe I'm in the process of losing weight for some reason, and it might be unhealthy if it carries on. I guess my lifestyle has involved quite a bit more exercise recently than usual, what with carrying loads of stuff over from Trinity to Mill Road every day for several weeks, and now doing quite a lot of walking and carrying heavy stuff still. And I haven't started eating more than usual, so perhaps it's not surprising if I get a bit thinner! My mother said yesterday that I looked particularly thin, but she always says that - if I'd actually lost weight every time she saw me in the last ten years, I think I'd be dead by now!

[lnr]

Worrying about your appearance is pretty much the same thing whether you're trying to lose weight or gain it, hate the size of you ears or the shape of your nose or whatever. If you are genuinely worrying about it then it's silly to try and dismiss it because you know people who are unhappy with the opposite! That would be like you thinking you should be unhappy at being too short (if you were) because there are people out there who are unhappy at being too tall.

I guess I just find it odd the way people react to you losing weight :-)

So long as you're eating when you're hungry you'll probably get enough extra calories to replace any you're burning off exercising, and you may well end up heavier if you start gaining extra muscle.

[damerell.livejournal.com]

I shouldn't worry about it, unless you're not eating when you'd like to.