When did you feel really good about your body?

I'm not sure I have ever been happy with my body. Sad to admit to but true, I think.

I am slimmer than I have ever been, not thin but slim enough and I am very fit, running more than 30 miles a week but still all I see when I look in the mirror is lumps and bumps. I think because I was always overweight as a teenager and through my 20's I am a bit wobbly.

I guess I have resigned myself to never having the shape I would want. I have a healthier relationship with food than I did pre-ds's and generally I don't worry about my diet or what I weigh unless my trousers get tight which only normally happens when I can't run. I eat to fuel my running and don't control my diet in anyway which makes me happier I think.

Not sure what the point of my rambling is, but just to say I like my body because I am in awe of what it can do when pushed, running a marathon was something I never thoughtnpossible until I did it, but I still don't like the way it looks.

I've stopped caring what other people think about mine now I'm in my 40s. It's nowhere near perfect, but it's healthy and I love the fact that I can trace my history on it. DH loves it, and that'll do for me.

The pressure for the perfect body is becoming ridiculous. I really hope I can steer the DCs into accepting themselves for who they are and not what they are.

The last time I felt good about my body was before I had DD. I was 41 then, and very controlled around food, but thinking about it most of the time. My life revolved around it. However, I think it was worth it, because I felt far better about myself when I had a good body. I just don't have the motivation any more, and I really envy women who feel good about their bodies and don't stress over this.I'm strong in other ways - even quite fit - but I just don't feel particularly empowered without a perfect body, even though I know I'm ok for my age and lifestyle. So yes, OP, you are making perfect sense!

This is one of those issues where it's easy to read all the feminist theory about appearance - and agree with it wholeheartedly - yet still be unable to apply it to yourself.

I usually feel good about my body most of the time. I am never going to look like a model but because I lead an active lifestyle and I enjoy activities like running and swimming, I don't have a weight problem and my body feels healthy. One of the reasons I run is because it gives me time to myself to think and also because when my body is fit, my mind is too. If I let exercise slide I find my ability to cope with stress decreases. For me there is a direct relationship between physical health and mental health.

I am a size bigger now than I was pre-DC because although I am the same weight my shape has changed. I look older too. Yet despite this I feel more content with my appearance now than I did pre-DC, when I was much more insecure.

How I got here, I'm not sure. I've read a bit about feminism and beauty, which certainly helped, but the main reason I think is just getting older and weathering enough storms to realise that life's too short to worry about how flat your stomach is. No one ever asks for an epitaph saying 'she had a fabulous figure'. Most people prefer to be remembered for their personalities.

If you are proud of what you do in life, and you care for your body in a keeping healthy way, not a 'perfect' appearance way, I think you grow to love the body you naturally have, regardless of its size or shape.

If you don't feel like that, it's worth looking to what you can do to change things, though IME a change in approach to life tends to have more benefits than a change to diet/exercise. I'm sure you look lovely in RL though and you're probably just at a bit of a low point and therefore more willing to see 'flaws'. I'm sure your friends and family think you look great.

I have never felt good about my body. Nowadays I mostly feel ok about it with occasional glimpses of good but still wouldn't say I felt good about it in general.

Over the last couple of years I have realised much of my negative thinking about myself came from my mother-as a child I was told I was skinny, hairy and pasty. As a teen she added in flat chested and horrible legs. It's no wonder I grew up thinking I was ugly

I feel better about my body now I am in my 40's than I did when I was a teen, 20's and 30's

I stopped worrying about it, for a start

I started listening to the people that care for me, instead of that faceless, amorphous mass of people (society) who tried to tell me that I was ugly if I wasn't 19yo, had big perky knockers and long blonde hair