How do you IMAGINE yourself looking this summer...and

[hohoba]

how will it really pan out.

What looks do you want to see yourself working( girlfrien') and what do you KNOW will go wrong.

a mate texted me the other day about cropped trousers and said " the thign is i cannto accept i am short and have short legs, in my mind i am Elle mcpherson, gazzelle like striding through town, as it is I look likea 12 year old.. in a bad way"

MMM I will be wearing linen trousers/crops, cotton tops and birkenstocks/flip flops. Like last year. And the year before. And the year before that

And when its cold I'll be wearing my grotty tracksuit and trainers [even more blush]

Given that dd#3 is only 10 weeks old i guess i had accepted that i would be looking slightly chubby this summer. I am on a diet now tho so hopefully will be looking slimmer as the summer progreses. May even be back in my size 8 clothes by august!

ui imagine myself wearing lovely floaty maxi dresses and casual flip flops. all tanned and lovely.

in reality i wont be able to find a single maxi dress that doesn't makeme look pregnant.

instead i'll be wearing cropped trousers and some long tops that age me and any footwear i can find that fits.

As usual I will imagine myself looking fab in anything, especially a bikini. I will dress accordingly (except for the bikini). Then towards the end of summer I will catch sight of myself in a mirror and be shocked to see that I have aged 6 years and had two children, and put on 3/4 of a stone. It will be a difficult moment. But luckily it will soon be winter.

I have bought [[http://www.asos.com/Killah/Killah-Printed-Wrap-Dress/Prod/pgeproduct.aspx?iid=504839&cid=5528&Rf-8 00=-1,25.000&sh=0&pge=4&pgesize=20&sort=-1&clr=Blue this dress] and it really suits me. If you ignore the pasty skin and hairy arms. And the fact that I probably won't wear it because I am always freezing so am still wearing jumpers when everyone else is in vest tops.

I don't look good in any of my other summer clothes. In my head I look crisp and fresh but really I look pasty, untoned and rumpled.

This dress

I found that my holiday wardrobe worked best when I decided what I would wear what I wear to the office in summer. We don't have to wear suits, so wear smart trousers and skirts, nice tops. Just switched shoes for sandals. It was much better than my usual attempt at floaty/vest tops/linen trousers holiday clothes.

I've just been reading about 'Gyrotonic' (which I had heard about-Torygraph w/end did a piece on it a while back) and have nearly had a haemotoma laughing at this bloke going throguh his paces.
Sorry Aitch, no offence.

Gyrotonic in all its glory