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- From: npm@dale.cts.com (Nancy Milligan)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.diet
- Subject: Re: body image
- Message-ID: <BxtKAL.6C6@dale.cts.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 17:23:08 GMT
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- I've noticed that people's body images seldom reflect how I perceive
- their bodies. I once had a roommate that was quite rotund (sounds like
- the beginning of a limmerk), and she didn't usually see herself that
- way at all. She once compared herself to Marilyn Monroe, which is
- apparently how she saw herself. But when she saw a photograph of
- herself she got very depressed about her weight. For some odd
- reason we can seem to edit our image in mirrors.
-
- I also didn't see myself as really fat when I was, and it was a
- photograph of me with my little 4 year old neice that convinced
- me how huge I was.
-
- It seems like I get a clearer idea of my body when I see it in a
- picture. Maybe that's because I can see the whole thing at once,
- rather than just focusing on a piece at a time.
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