It's Me….
A favorite photo of myself and why…
I am an extremely critical of myself. I know we all have issues with that, but I can’t even begin to tell you how critical of myself I am. It’s really sad too! I hate it and wish I wasn’t that way. I definitely don’t want Tbug to pick that habit up from anyone.
One good thing though is I never had an eating disorder because of it. In fact, in high school I was asked on more than one occasion if I was anorexic. When I told them no, they’d ask if I was sure so I’d name off everything I had eaten that day, or if it was early in the morning I’d name off everything I ate the day before.
Now that was a little over 10 years ago, however here’s kind of how I ate in high school…
Breakfast – I usually stopped at Hardee’s on my way to school as long as I wasn’t running late for school. I’d get a Bacon Egg & Cheese biscuit and a Coke.
Mid Morning – I’d eat those large chewy sweettarts and sometimes either a Mt. Dew or a Dr Pepper.
Lunch – either Wendy’s, McDonalds, Subway, Sonic… one of those because we had open campus lunch. Now I learned to eat cheap because my dad would give me $20/week to eat on. Anything left over was mine, but that still didn’t stop me from eating. I just ate off the dollar menu.
After School – I’d go home and either eat rice with butter or an entire box of Mac & Cheese
Dinner – Whatever my mom made or sometimes we’d go out to eat… whatever
How I didn’t weigh a ton, well I ran a mile every night with my Market Lambs (sheep) keeping them in shape, however I was lazy so they usually wound up dragging me. So after I ate all that, people would ask if I was bulimic so I’d ask them if they wanted to smell my breath. See, didn’t have an eating disorder. I was on the Seefood diet. I saw it, I ate it :).
But back to today’s topic. I love this picture of myself for many reasons. First off, very seldom will you see me/hear me say this, but my hair was perfect in this photo. I was having such a good hair day! One thing about myself I’ve always loved is my smile and my eyes. The outfit I had on made me feel like queen of the world and in this particular photo, I actually look like I have a tan.
All 4 of my grandparents either were darker complected or took on really nice tans, did I get any of that… NOPE! Even my dad gets a great tan. Did I get that…. NOPE!
But, this is a photo that I actually like the way I look in.
You look lovely 🙂 Yeah I'm pretty critical of myself in pictures too. I think that's pretty typical though. So when we find that “perfect” picture of ourselves we are thrilled!
I'm extremely critical of myself too, and you'll never hear me say I have a good hair day! Ha! More like bad hair day, every day.
This is a cute picture of you!! Wish I could rock shorts. 😉
Your beautiful…absolutely no reason to be critical of yourself. I totally understand though, I am really critical of myself and now I see my daughter doing it. It's one thing I truly wish she hadn't taken after me. I think there is just SO much pressure for women to look a certain way and we fall into it unfortunately.
It is a wonderful photo of you
Great photo!
Awww, that is a fun and lovely photo of you! I would never have guessed that you would be so critical of yourself though…you seem to exhibit a lot of confidence on here. But I definitely know what you mean because I am soooo critical of myself too. I am pretty choosy about the pictures I post of myself although even most of those I don't love. You just have to love those rare shots that just seem to capture how you really want to be portrayed!
Good hair days are the best and can totally make or break a photo. I want to see the Blue Man Group so bad!!
I used to eat the same way in high school. For breakfast I would eat a fudgesicle. Then throughout the day whatever my mom had packed. On top of that I would order a sub from the cafeteria, then what ever my mom cooked at night. Man I wish I still had that metabolism! Oh and I don't get tan either, I don't really do much of anything. haha