Does this forum have a :hug: smiley? I feel like I might have written the OP under a different screen name!!!
I so know where you're coming from. My husband travels an awful lot and when he's out of town, I'm a total gym rat, in there 2 hours a day at the least. When he's home, I want to spend maximum time with him, so I usually don't go to the gym. Well, he's been home for 2 weeks now and this morning I didn't fit into my favorite pants. I cried. I CRIED. How stupid is that?
I'm SO hard on myself; a friend's girlfriend came over yesterday for the 4th and her 22-year-old body made me want to pitch myself off the roof. I'm only 27, it's not like gravity has done significant damage in the past five years. Honestly, she probably looked no different than me, but my skewed self-image showed her as weighing like 40 lbs less than me.
I think lurkett's advice is wonderful. Thanks for saying that stuff, lurkette, even if it wasn't directed towards me.
