BBR -- Wednesday, 09/09

I think I got my idea on how I should look from people around me and the comments from people if someone was too thin or overweight, obese. I also got the idea of how a woman's body should look from media and people's comments. When my body was too thin by society's standards I was bummed but it was the way I was and the comments hurt me. When I became overweight/obese I accepted that too, and didn't do much about it for years. I never made negative comments to myself about my body.

I used to strive for what I saw in fashion magazines, therefore I always felt too large even when I was a perfectly fine weight.  It all changed for me when I started aspiring to fitness and strength training body types instead.  I was a long time reader of a women's body building magazine (Muscle & Fitness Hers?  Can't really remember the title).  I never knew I would never be that hard core about building muscle, but it definitely helped reframe my ideas about different body types.

Yeah, again bbbearsmom, great topic.

I think from TV, magazines, and my parents, who used to 'mention' the weight of my heavier friends. Yes, it was fucked up in hindsight, and even then I told them as much. My parents were in the clothing business and very fashion conscious so there's that too. I remember girls like Susan Dey of The Partridge Family being idolized for their figures and we were all supposed to look like that.