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- From: dyer@spdcc.com (Steve Dyer)
- Newsgroups: alt.support.diet
- Subject: Re: body image
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.051543.16632@spdcc.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 05:15:43 GMT
- References: <UezRquW00WBMQ5VY5g@andrew.cmu.edu> <BxtKAL.6C6@dale.cts.com>
- Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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- In article <BxtKAL.6C6@dale.cts.com> npm@dale.cts.com (Nancy Milligan) writes:
- >For some odd reason we can seem to edit our image in mirrors.
-
- Especially if the only mirror in the house is the bathroom medicine cabinet.
- :-) (I understand that this is a "guy thing"--a female friend who stayed
- with me once couldn't understand how I could live without a full-length
- mirror, whereas it had never occurred to me.)
-
- >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.
-
- Pictures are brutal. I am much heavier than I perceive myself to be,
- and it's particularly depressing to see some recent pictures, because
- all that is obvious to me is how much further I have to go, rather
- than how much progress (- 50 lbs.) I've made already. You can't see
- the clothes size shrinkage, and the added belt notches aren't visible
- in the snapshot.
-
- Anyway, denial has both positive and negative points. I don't dwell
- on the snapshots, though they're useful when my will falters.
-
-
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- Steve Dyer
- dyer@ursa-major.spdcc.com aka {ima,harvard,rayssd,linus,m2c}!spdcc!dyer
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