Hubby has been taking a lot of pictures this past week and unfortunately I am in them. I say this because even though I have tried very hard to lose some weight, I am not doing at all well. And at way over 40 years old, the changes to my body are not good. Not good at all!
It’s summer. The one time of the year when you feel like eating hot-dogs and hamburgers, barbecued ribs, and all sorts of summer foods that are not conducive to reducing the waistline.
I try to eat a little less, perhaps choose a salad over eating all of the fries, but it is hard. I also have found that during the summer I love to cook and then, of course, I cook what I eat.
It would be far better that I not enjoy eating and just the cooking part of all of this.
But, I digress.
Hubby, taking pictures and me in them. Bah! I thought perhaps there might be one or two that were fairly good, but today when I downloaded the pictures I saw something I hadn’t realized.
My stomach now looks like I am pregnant. My backside, well we just won’t go into what “IT” looks like! Talk about depressing! Now Hubby assures me that this is not the case and it was just a bad angle, but I am feeling self conscious, and when I feel self conscience I tend to eat.
Not a good remedy to the current problem.
So I guess I will have to do something drastic, like go on a starvation diet. (Only kidding!) I just don’t want to let this get out of hand so that little children begin to think that Santa Claus and I are related!
One positive thing about my current appearance, my hair is getting long. Maybe it will grow really long and I can hide under it!
I hate looking at pictures and feeling like I’m fat. 🙁 It’s the worst.
Don’t be too hard on yourself! those of us way over 40 (love the expression) cannot look like we did 10-15 years ago (sigh), I remember all I had to do was to skip dinner ONCE and my tummy would immediately look better…it’s so hard to lose a couple of pounds…
I am letting my hair grow too, it’s about shoulder length now like yours but very, very straight!
have a happy day 🙂
Hm. Is better some days?
Maybe you have a stomach that just is swollen? Sounds like I’m joking, butt I’m not!
Both my best friend and I have a strange syndrome going on since a year back approx. Very often our stomachs just blows up like we’re pregnant, but we aren’t. and were not having that problem with the bows either.
We’ve recently come to terms with together with the doc that it probably is the abs muscles in there that is having an inflammation. Probably because we both have back problems and they muscles get bad beaten up because of that.
So, OK, it might be some weight to, butt maybe it’s worsen of your problems too?
Though Mr L have had similar symptoms and he has not the kind of back problems as we got, so it might also be some kind of strange virus. There are soo many strange ones nowadays!
I feel like a virus myself… *giggles*