Mmm, I can empathise there, MI. When I was in my 20s I weighed under 9 and a half stone and was convinced that I was too heavy (I am about 5' 7" so you can see that I was hardly overweight). I look at young girls now and envy them their lovely figures and confidence which I was so sadly lacking. It's interesting therefore to read that today's youngsters have the same insecurity that I did (and rather sad) as I was hoping that it was something that had been relegated to the past.
Well I spent the morning at the Centre for Life's preschool day which was great: we made play dough, "played" the pan pipes, watched a show about monsters in the sky in the planetarium which DGS loved, touched bugs (I [yes, me] actually touched a hissing cockroach!!!), sang songs and danced - the whole experience was very positive and it's good to know that there are places like this available now to take youngsters to. We will definitely go again and I am seriously thinking of getting a year's pass to enable us to go anytime we want. The only sad thing was that the majority of the people there (and they were mostly women) were middle class and I felt it was a shame that more youngsters couldn't benefit from the experience. Children are free and adults are 5.50 so hardly expensive, but I guess even 5.50 is a lot if you haven't much disposable income.