My mother called winter clothes camouflage clothing. Jeans and turtlenecks don’t tell your secrets. They mask those extra pounds: the arms, legs, and tummy that didn’t benefit from a resolution to start exercising this January.
I’m having trouble getting excited about the warmer temperatures predicted for this week: tomorrow we’re on target for a record high. I didn’t even think to pull out last summer’s tube of sunless tanning lotion until this weekend. Nothing makes you look more trim and toned than a pseudo-tan, right?
Why are we women so hard on ourselves? You would think I would have to actually do something wrong to feel this ashamed. Do men do this to themselves?
This week I start walking. Are you ready for warmer temperatures?
Oh girl, I am so with you. It was 80 yesterday and now we’re down in the 30s and snow. I want the warm weather, but I don’t want to reveal too much of this bod. LOL!!! 😉
My sentiments exactly. 🙂
Such a true post… I am never ever ready to uncamouflage… even when I was a newly wed without the body of a mom with eight kids!!! I tell you I may have missed my moment. Interesting point: For all my camouflage… and we are heading into winter!!! … My husband doesn’t seem to mind that I am not nearly as lithe and slim and trim as I once was… It really is my issue rather than his!!! And I don’t think he has ever given his appearance as a thought as the seasons change from one to the other!!!
It’s really the same here—it’s not my husband that minds, it’s me. 🙂
Ouch, I know that pain! And yeah? WHY do we do this to ourselves??? As if I’m gonna pretend with the self-tanner that I just naturally have this lovely olive-orange glow? And yet I slather it on anyway…
The really psychotic thing is – I mostly do it for me – ’cause I like my legs better in shorts when they don’t look so pasty…and when I like my legs better, I kinda like me better…somehow I’m nicer to everyone, and kiss my husband more, and laugh louder with my kids. All from a little self-tanner.
Hmm.
Bring it on!