A GREAT Article!

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Lol....I never went back to my prebaby body....sadly. Like you though, I lost about 35 lbs during my divorce. I have to say, though I'm still single now and preferring it that way, a very sweet moment for me - I was on my way out for a date and had to drop my kids of at our 'neutral location'. My exhusband actually did a double take when he saw me. That made me feel great! I felt terrible about myself for years and refuse to for one second now. I have a friend who went camping with me in Puerto Rico last winter. She took a picture of me when I fell asleep on the beach. I was wearing my 21 yr old daughter's string bikini and was more than a little uncomfortable with it, feeling too plump to do so. She enlarged the photo and framed as a gift it stating that that body needed to be shown off. I thought it was the sweetest thing anyone ever did for me out of the blue. And I was shocked to see that I actually looked pretty good! What a nice gift!

I guess the moral of that story is - We are always hardest on ourselves and have to work hard to be as attractive to ourselves as we are to those around us