To me body image includes your face and stuff as well.
Some days it's good. Some days I feel slightly disgusted. I wish there was an easy way to gauge how attractive you really are.
Until I realised I’m trans I simply spent as little time looking in the mirror or at photos of myself and I was fine.
Now it revolves around my potential to pass :(
I don't take care of myself because I have the big sad so I basically pretend my body doesn't exist except when I shove sugar or alcohol into it like a good fat American
Feel free, though I gotta tell you I never feel comfortable being that dismissive with someone else's depression, only my own
A ton really. My problem is I literally cannot tell if I'm ugly or good looking or not. Which most likely means I'm not very pretty.
I have a lot of issues around my face, I have real big shoulders and upper arms that sometimes make me feel like the hulk and I'm conscious about keeping a small waist. I'm also kinda tall for a girl. I can manage these quite well, but very often among other girls I feel like I stick out like a sore thumb and all I wanna be is smol and cute. I'm tired of this amazon bullshit...
I have real big shoulders and upper arms that sometimes make me feel like the hulk
Crush my skull mommy 😍
jk, honestly tall girls don't get enough appreciation. I'm fairly tall but those rare moments when I come across a girl who's actually taller or just as tall as me makes me feel a certain level of insecurity, but then later I realize that it's incredible that they've grown that much, then think about how cute it would be for their partner to be the little spoon. Anyway, hope you find someone that likes Amazon goddesses as much as I do.
There is a way to tell how attractive you really are imo - the way other people treat you. My body image can be pretty bad sometimes, but I know I must be at least moderately attractive in reality because of the romantic attention I've gotten from men and women. Contemplating at my body and doing self-portraits on psychedelics has also given me a real appreciation for everything my body does to keep me alive and kicking, and I kinda get how ridiculous it is now to treat it like something I can mold to my will.
Sexual attraction from horny guys is imo not a good gauge at all
and women
I'm not talking about guys aiming to drunkenly fuck you, that happens to everyone, I'm talking about people interested in dating you.
Sitting in an office all day is making me fat. It beats standing on concrete for 14 hours, but still just wrecks you.
I wanna be model thin so I'm starving myself until I reach a BMI of 17.5. I'm at 20 right now, 6 kilos to go. I'm too insecure to go outside without heavy makeup and almost always overdress in nice clothes to draw out my femininity.
While I've learned not to worry too much about it, I'd be lying if I said I didn't struggle with it. In my better-feeling, more rational(?) modes, I can feel like I'm decent in terms of "conventional" attractiveness, or at least average. But I have times where I can only look at myself with disgust. I also struggle with rather severe social inadequacy problems that go far beyond body image, but surrounding my worth as a human being in general. How I judge my outward appearance at any given moment is very dependent on how I'm doing with those broader feelings of worthlessness, so it's all tied together.
I just feel like I am one of the uglier people. Trying to prop up my looks with things I can control (hair, clothes, body composition, etc.) and just screw the rest.
I spent most of my life feeling like I was unattractive because I was brown and lived in a pretty racist part of the UK, only to go to university and have people tell me I'm hot, so that was disorienting. I still have times where I hate how I look, and I need to work out more, but overall, I'm happier about it than I ever thought I would be
