Being thin is "shameful"???

[Jay 2K Winger]

I'l be in my bunk.



(Firefly Reference ftw)

Gotta ditto this.

Kisa, like everyone else has said, you have NOTHING to be ashamed about. Not only are you AFW, you are very easy on the eyes.

[Canarr]

I'l be in my bunk.



(Firefly Reference ftw)

See your Jayne, raise you Kaylee & Wash.

Kaylee: Wash, tell me I'm pretty.

Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion.

Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty?

Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.

[Jay 2K Winger]

See your Jayne, raise you Kaylee & Wash.

Kaylee: Wash, tell me I'm pretty.

Wash: Were I unwed, I would take you in a manly fashion.

Kaylee: 'Cause I'm pretty?

Wash: 'Cause you're pretty.

Kaylee is awesome, and Alan Tudyk is too. I'm so happy he's on Twitter now.

[PepperElf]

ooo nice. i'll have to follow him.

Just be sure you go to http://twitter.com/#!/alan_tudyk
cos if you go to http://twitter.com/#!/alantudyk - that's not him...

[Cat]

Ahh Firefly....took me way to long to get in to it, le sigh. Just finished re-watching the movie before I posted here

[Gizmo]

Your wish has been granted Here lies the "shameful" bikini.

You are exactly the right shape for the bikini. Its not shameful, its actually a little conservative! Seriously, any one complaining about that needs an eye test!

[Talon]

Your wish has been granted Here lies the "shameful" bikini.

*Struggles not to be pervy*

Seriously the only thing "shameful" about that bikini is there aren't more pics of you wearing it

[blas]

Not shameful at all! You have a nice body

I have a similar shape to yours (but I'm a little more top heavy lol) and I've had the hardest time finding a bikini top that FITS me (I'm not joking, most stores I go to, a large or XL top is about the size of my hand!), and isn't old ladyish or frumpy looking. No kidding, I'm convinced I have to shop in the women's swim section now, nowhere as cute as the juniors

Hence, since that's been impossible, I just keep wearing my old one, because I just stick to my pool here at my apartment. But, unfortunately, my ladies tend to want to pop out all the damn time.

[morgana]

Kisa, I would bet a large sum of money that those two wastes-of-protoplasm were simply jealous of you. (Hell, I envy you your figure, too. But I wouldn't act like that.) You have every reason to be proud of the way you look. Don't let petty little people like that bring you down; that's what they want.

[Food Lady]

Seriously cute, Kisa. Like I said, they were jealous. So sad for them.

[rose_metal_nz]

You're gorgeous & it's pretty obvious from the inconsistencies in their complaints that they just wanted to have a bitch.

[Null Requiem]

[/lurk]

Alrighty then, I have to say that the outfit and you both look quite nice. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. :P

[lurk]

[Andara Bledin]

I'll trade you guys some of you my hypothyroidism for some of your high metabolisms.

The ironic thing is it sounds like they were trying to complain that you were fat (flab jiggling) and thin at the same time.

Actually, you can be both thin and jiggly at the same time. I see it a lot. I don't know if it's purely genetic, or if it's a matter of relative fitness, or what.

I get people commenting sometimes that I "never" finish a meal. Which in certain restaurants I don't. The portions are too big for one person for one meal.

I'm a big girl, and even I find that most restaurant portions are just too big for a single serving. Sometimes I'll eat everything just because I don't want to waste anything and I know I won't eat the leftovers, and other times, the boyfriend and I will share an entree and get an appetizer as well, which evens out into about as much food as we actually want.

[QUOTE=Kisa;921109]

Here lies the "shameful" bikini.

*sighs*

I haven't looked like that since high school.

Your figure right now is just about my ideal for what I want to look like. Except, well, I don't want to actually have to do any real work for it, so I'll just have to stick to my pretty one-piece bathing suits with the cute ruffly short bottoms.

It's a string bikini. It looks like just about every other string bikini ever made. I fail to see what's shameful about it.

As for the always finishing a meal thing that's been talked about, I got lucky in that my mom's mom knew that it was unhealthy to force kids to eat if they didn't want to, so if you were done, you were done and my mom followed that. Then again, we were allowed to choose our own portions as kids, too, so we only put on our plates what we wanted to eat. But if we barely ate anything at dinner then it was on us to reheat leftovers or make something else to eat because mom did dinner, so her duties were done.

Food should only ever be used as sustenance. Don't use it as rewards or punishments, or force it one way or the other unless you want your kids to have hangups about it later in life.

^-.-^

[blas]

When I was a kid, we weren't allowed to not finish our food, no matter how we felt or what we were eating. My dad came from a family of Quakers (my own cruel joke) that did not believe whatsoever in wasting food or leaving leftovers, and my mother came from a family of mentally ill people who believed manipulation was the key element into making everyone subordinent of you.

There is a reason I am so picky about foods and I will only eat certain foods, and why as soon as I was on my own, I got out and eat all the junk and fast food I wanted.

[Kogarashi]

Thin-but-jiggling mostly describes me. When I put on weight, it goes to my belly (as flab) and my rear end, while the rest of me stays fairly proportional. Were I to wear a bikini, I would be jiggling all over the place (not counting chest size, which is jiggle-sized too) while still technically considered thin. Well, as thin as a near-six-foot size-12/14 woman can be.

Then again, we were allowed to choose our own portions as kids, too, so we only put on our plates what we wanted to eat.

My parents didn't do quite the same thing, because whenever they let us choose our portion size, we'd always fill our plates waaaaay too full and never eat it all.

My parents' method was actually this: for the most part, Mom or Dad would serve us. They knew how much we could eat, and wouldn't give us more than that. If we tried to say we were full before our plate was cleared off, they would have us eat one bite for each year of our age. So when I was four and said I was full, I had to eat four more regular-sized bites before I was considered "done." This way, we didn't have to clear the plate, but our parents made sure we still had something to eat. If, however, we served ourselves, we had to eat everything we dished out. Dad's motto was "Take all you want, but eat all you take."

Hubby and I have been using the same method with our kids, and so far it's working. Oldest (4 and a half) has been getting a lot better about actually eating until she's full, instead of just whining that she's full because she wants to skip to dessert.