How do you feel about your body?

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I generally feel very positive about my body. I think possibly because I have several chronic illnesses and mostly can appreciate the fact I'm still able to do most of the things I can do! And I think I look fairly nice, and am very relaxed in myself.

However if I have a bad few days being ill and get very tired, or have rotten PMT, I can get quite negative. I think how different my life might have turned out if I'd been healthy. Then it can spill over into feeling quite ugly in my own skin too - I find that difficult.

Anyway, I'm just curious about how other people feel about their bodies in different ways?

I'm in awe of it and what is has done and will continue to do. But I hate the way it looks! Boobs upwards I like, anything below I hate. It's a sad toss up between wanting to keep healthy and attractive, or give up and eat another pain au choc 🙈

I love what it’s done for me in giving us our children but I’m covered in stretch marks, have a pot belly and I’m carrying a good 1.5stone I need to get rid of. I am so down about my weight but I can’t seem to shift it this year.

I don't even know where to start. After years of battling eating disorders and being on the high scale on both ends (obese to severely underweight) I am now around 10 stone at 5 foot 7. I would love to be thinner, but that's not the main problem now with my body. I have lupus, ulcerative colitis, psoriatic arthritis to name a few and then have recently ( the past few months) been diagnosed with a very rare terminal illness and could literally drop dead at any moment. I'm in agony 24 hours a day. I can hardly move. Right now both my body and mind are completely broken. I'm only 38, so I do get very pissed off at my body most days

Loved it in my 30s. Hated it in my 30s and mid 40s. Now it absolutely amazes me, and I more than love it. I’ve only got one body, and the things it can do are awesome. I have several minor issues, and with the right treatment and care, my body works in a way to minimise harm, eg stabilising joints at night stops daytime pain. How does my body do that? It’s beyond mind blowing. Don’t even get me started on breastfeeding!

I love the way my body looks. I'm fit, strong and feel good most of the time. I think I might be boring and not very bright though. We can't have everything.

Outwardly I've a great figure, size 8, 32dd boobs but I've a prolapse that's really getting me down and I'm sad my body wasn't able to birth my son properly. I feel like a bit of a failure because of it.

I'm early 40s.

I'm generally pretty happy. It's a nice hourglass shape, I've got good legs, I didn't get any stretch marks when I was pregnant, my boobs are pretty big although I'm too thin for them at the moment, I've never been overweight, I've got nice soft skin, I've been complimented on having a nice back although I don't spend a lot of time looking at it. I look good in clothes. It's looking well for 40. My face is considered pretty still, used to be beautiful, and I think I look about five years younger than I am although I'm in no position to guess. Just people are usually surprised at my age, but I can't really tell. I like being naturally blonde.

In the bad bin, my boobs are a pain, I've got too many scars although luckily I can hide most of them, my bum hurts to sit on because it's too bony, my thighs are a little bit too wobbly at the back, I need a tan or I'm practically see through. And I have a chronic health condition that means the entire thing hurts if I try doing anything, which really fucking sucks.

I used to be a lot stronger and more capable of doing things which I miss, a lot.

I'm quite fond of my body when I notice it.

Happily I'm past those couple of years when we grapple with the transition from still-young to properly-middle-aged and now I have quite a warm feeling toward this lovely thing that has taken some knocks and keeps on chugging.

I did get a bit of a surprise to realise I'd put on 10kg over the last few years (I don't own bathroom scales so weigh-ins are rare). So now I'm enjoying tracking my nutrition and lifting weights to ensure my old bod gets the best I can offer.

She's a good 'un, I like her.

It's somewhat heavier than I would ideally like but I have great posture and move gracefully. Having seen quite a few people younger than me die in recent years (cancer mainly), I try to regard my body with kindness and gratitude.

I actually feel absolutely fine about it. I felt fine/ good about it before kids, felt relatively fine postpartum if a little soft and feel fine/ good with it while pregnant again.
I generally don’t have negative feelings towards by body. I probably was more obsessed with a toned stomach in my teens and 20s.

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I bet you're bloody not!

I've never been happy with mine since puberty. I've had weight issues on and off, currently a size 16 and pregnant, last pregnancy two years ago saw me gain 2 stone which I only lost half of. Boobs are really saggy now, bad cellulite. I cover my arms and my legs. Naturally pale, used to do sunbeds that gave me a lovely glow and helped me feel more confident but now as a mother I have massive regrets at risking my health in the name of vanity. Have a couple of tattoos that I hate.

Though I'm 40 now so at least I've learned to be happier in my own skin but once this baby is out there will be massive lifestyle changes. I've always been active but at the moment I'm struggling with exercise because I feel so awful which doesn't help.

I'm happy with it on the whole. I could do with getting back into exercise and watching my diet cos I've stopped for the past 3 months and can tell a difference.

But otherwise very happy

I think it's fab. It doesn't look like it used to but I appreciate how well it's works physically. My husband still finds it very sexy after over 20 years together and I'm sure that helps me accept it and appreciate it.

I'm working at getting fitter and flexible because old age is brutal and I want to head towards it with the cards stacked in my favour.

I'm a bit fat and my teeth are crumbling. Starting to look slightly jowly.

I have good boobs and people compliment my green eyes. I appreciate the relatively easy time I had with my pregnancies and labour.

I would love to be a tall willowy woman, but I'm trying to appreciate what God gave me.

I like my body. I'm comfortable in my own skin, but I suppose if I'm not at 59 I never will be!

I'm happy to be healthy, I've birthed and breastfed three children. I'm tall, fit and strong, a little heavier than I used to be but I don't mind. I've nice boobs and good legs. My face is still fairly unlined and I have no grey hairs, and I'll admit to being a bit vain about that. I'm no beauty, I never have been, but I look in the mirror and am generally happy with what I see.

I am more content with my body than I ever was when I was young. I hated it as a teenager.

I am about 2 stone heavier than I'd like to be. Other than that, I like my body. Its not my body's fault I can't stop over eating and I wish I treated it better.

I am trying very hard to eat properly and lose weight but it does make me a bit miserable. But I also don't like being overweight so I don't have much of a choice either way.

My hands and feet and nose all grew during pregnancy and are all bigger than they used to be. I can't wear my wedding rings despite being the same weight I was when I got pregnant and they they were a bit loose then.

I am only 5ft4 and have size 7 feet. And weight 12st7lb. Ugh.

I hate it.. and my dislike for it has got worse as I've got older even though people do say you get more comfortable/accept it with age. Sadly for me I don't see my feelings for my body getting any better any time soon

I like below the knees and above the waist! But I’ve learnt how to dress to hide the bits I don’t like and exaggerate the bits I do. And I have colitis so I do appreciate my body for working so well at the moment!

I dislike how I look mostly, occasionally if I've made an effort I'm happy, but it's rare. I used to see myself as really ugly and fast the week before my period, definitely hormonal. Now I'm post menopausal and it still happens sometimes. I am overweight, size 16, but tall enough to not look too fat most of the time, I have no motivation to do much about it, instead I comfort eat. I have facial hair I hate, my boobs hang low, I've no waist, my bum is a bit of a shelf now, I have grooves at the side of my mouth and my skin is crepey. I can't afford to get botox, but I'm splashing out on teeth whitening because my teeth are much darker than they used to be.

I'm 50 and I love my body, it's given me five children I never thought I would have. I survived a rare cancer after a 7.5 hour operation and I have a huge scar to prove it, I've never been happier, slightly chubbier than I used to be in my twenties but I prefer my body now and after losing two stone in hospital I'm grateful to be able to eat without pain (mostly)

Oh and I gained back all the weight I lost, thankfully and that means I'm absorbing food which my dietician is very pleased about

That sounds really hard. Really, really hard. Hope you have lots of support. 💐

Hate it with a passion, had a sticky out stomach even when I was a kid. Then gathered some impressive scars. Hate my face too. Given up now.