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45, going on holiday in 2 weeks and feel miserable about appearance

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SirRaymondClench · 30/07/2017 14:11

I'm going on a beach holiday to Ibiza in 2 weeks and feel utterly miserable about my appearance.
I seem to have hair everywhere I shouldn't (face, chin, neck, nipples) and look blotchy, red and bloated.
I should have lost weight for the holiday (but didn't, just stuffed sweet crap into my mouth instead) I'm about 2 stone overweight and don't fit into my jeans.
My legs are covered in broken thread veins and I have the start of a beautiful varicose vein on my leg.
My hair is going grey and even the day after it has been coloured at the hairdressers I can see the grey beaming through.
My face is lined, creviced and wrinkled.

Basically I feel like Mother Nature is twatting me with a mallet on every front and I'm dreading sitting on the beach feeling frumpy and sad while all around me the youthful parade around in their effortless skinniness and hairfree glory.

I can't seem to see the wood for the trees nor where to start, it feels like every effort I make in my appearance just isn't enough.

I'm sorry for the essay and the protracted moan but I needed to say this to someone and guess what? No friends either and DH doesn't get it.

Yes I am probably depressed.

That aside, any tips to feel better and less old about myself?

OP posts:
specialsubject · 31/07/2017 21:25

Your husband doesn't get it because he doesn't see it. Normal people know that their partners age and really don't care.

Head up, smile, enjoy. Just look at the pictures of young thin models, sulky faces (or that no brain parted lips gawp) and see how plug ugly they look despite youth and thin ness.

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