Most of the time I'm happy with my body--I'm healthy by every measure, I like working out and I have a good relationship with food (never diet, always eat well, enjoy treats when I want them but don't crave much.) Then my mother comes to visit and I can't stop squinting at my reflection to see if my belly is less than perfectly flat and wonder if she'll comment on it this time.

I was the cute kid that grew into the ugly adult. Even my mother was surprised when I started dating DH because she thought he was to good looking for me. :(

5'6" 123lbs 36/26/37 .. 37yo mother of two teens.

echhh...there's this gross family in the women's locker room every monday. The two kids scream their heads off in the shower. The mother carries the little boy around and dresses him like he's an invalid. Today, i go to my locker and find the whole space taken up by her and her kid, who is whining and crying and squirming. In the adults only section! Just once, read the sign!

The stress, arguing, and name calling that comes from my mother makes me quietly sneak a few cookies or a piece of cake. I'm great with sticking to my diet but when someone calls you useless and takes every little comment you say to mean something negative, it makes you not care about anything :(

I have REALLY bad skin. I started a new regimen last week and I swear my skin is improving dramatically! My mother (who never compliments me) even said it looks better. I take spironolactone 150mg in the AM w/ Bactrim DS, wash my face with PCA 5% BPO cleanser, Rx acne gel, PCA perfecting hydrator moisturizer, then PM more Bactrim, wash face with BPO, Rx acne gel, PCA clearskin. Hopefully when I see my dermatologist again in 5 weeks my skin looks awesome!

I'm the OP with the clear skin. I don't get ingrowns either. My skin regiment is just witch hazel and olay products. I have been using anti-aging stuff since I was 16, so I guess that helps too. Nothing special, just genetics. My mother/father and their parents have always had clear skin too.

I'm beginning to notice that alot of people that have weight problems are children of mothers who were/are constantly fad dieting....

As far as tampon use, I'm 55 and my mother forbade me to wear them as long as I lived at home. I even ordered some thru the mail when I was 17 and she intercepted them and threw them away. She believed that tampons took a girl's virginity.

Some days I really hate the fact I went into immediate menopause when I decided to have my ovaries removed due to being at an over 80% risk for developing ovarian cancer. I am thankful, however, I won't have to go thru what my mother & her mother went thru. Finding out my risk was a like a "gift wrapped in trash." It still sucks.