tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668756162872571497.post6699063141983158558..comments2023-07-30T15:43:31.655+03:00Comments on Headspace: Fat and happy?Katriinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08403719183047819222noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668756162872571497.post-20839844636840113542011-12-21T20:23:17.273+02:002011-12-21T20:23:17.273+02:00There's also the fairly well-known observation...There's also the fairly well-known observation that winters in Finland tend to be colder than summers - at least objectively speaking. Which would explain certain changes in biochemistry for life forms that dislike being cold.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668756162872571497.post-23440354055462800612011-12-12T19:02:02.474+02:002011-12-12T19:02:02.474+02:00Excellent! I'm looking forward to it :)Excellent! I'm looking forward to it :)Katriinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08403719183047819222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668756162872571497.post-60124332240141373472011-12-10T15:10:29.147+02:002011-12-10T15:10:29.147+02:00You look stunning to me! And tall and strong sound...You look stunning to me! And tall and strong sounds like a very good description for a wonderful, clever, confident and happy woman...<br /><br />I have a few years on you...and I've found that the older I've got the less stressed and more relaxed about image I've become...and strangely (this is what happens when you have boys who grow into young men) the more irresistible I have become to my eldest sons pals!!! Its hilarious - but I've become their Mrs Robinson...<br />It is all ahead of you! lolsansserifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16445280597626572292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668756162872571497.post-15567614048280259362011-12-10T14:25:24.572+02:002011-12-10T14:25:24.572+02:00You are so right that being happy and at peace wit...You are so right that being happy and at peace with yourself is far more important than your dress size. I wish I didn't worry about matters of body image quite so much as I do. Although I've come a long, long way since my "Defeating the Skinny Bitch" days (http://theheadspaceblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/defeating-skinny-bitch.html) I haven't yet found enough peace within my own mind to feel 100% comfortable within my own skin. These days, I'm neither very big nor very thin (people might describe me as looking "tall and strong") and I hope that someday soon I will be able to cope better mentally with fluctuations of a few kilos during the festive season!!<br />By the way, I would say that the time in my life I was most attractive to men was the time I felt the happiest and most confident. I was certainly bigger than I am now. Maybe, for some women, the stress of trying to be or stay skinnier than they feel comfortable actually stops their inner light from shining at its brightest!Katriinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08403719183047819222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668756162872571497.post-17765499305733629212011-12-09T20:49:33.824+02:002011-12-09T20:49:33.824+02:00Its the modern disease for women - obsessing about...Its the modern disease for women - obsessing about weight...<br />And to be honest I have always been more successful (with the opposite sex - yes, yeuch!) than my much skinnier fellow sisters...not a boast - just observation.<br />Fraid I have never properly bought into the whole "skinnier is the only way to be a woman" stuff.<br />I have never been huge nor have I ever been small. Though I am aware that size 0-10 women would be horrified to be my British average size 14-16. I am relatively tall. I am attractive in an average way.<br />But I am generally happy. Confident. Content in my physical skin. Fat or thin - maybe this is the key? Yes, by all means be healthy, but above all love your own self. And sometimes that means a bit of extra padding... Be a happy confident you...<br />Incidentally, Scotland and Finland have similarities re dark and climate and health records etc - though I believe that the Finns have managed to reverse heart disease etc increases. I certainly understand the winter fat theory - usually go up a couple of pounds about this time of year!sansserifhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16445280597626572292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668756162872571497.post-46541863203249848792011-12-03T21:23:22.462+02:002011-12-03T21:23:22.462+02:00anobservantmind, it sounds like I have to re-work ...anobservantmind, it sounds like I have to re-work my theory if the summer-winter happy-sad thing is actually irrelevant and Christmas is in fact to blame for all this! sigh... :-)Katriinahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08403719183047819222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2668756162872571497.post-9697590773987750982011-12-03T02:05:24.813+02:002011-12-03T02:05:24.813+02:00Oh I love it, the problem for me here is that Chri...Oh I love it, the problem for me here is that Christmas and all the festivities and eating are in summer - so I get fatter in summer - but still, it means Im a nice, cheerful person!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com