little_terry is giddy with success.
heck
3 years ago
don’t care. It’s not even summer yet and I’ve lost all momentum. I’m sure I’ll go to the beach and even wear a swim suit, but why worry about it?
How to go to the beach in a swimsuit
It made me
loosen up 
"I went to the beach in a bathing suit after being too embarrassed for 10 years--and I live in Hawaii."
How I did it: I live in Hawaii and the last time I had been to the beach in a bathing suit was in 4th grade when I was about 8 or 9 years old. Since then I was overweight and way too ashamed of my body to be seen in one. I'd avoid bathing suit situations at all costs. Finally in January 2008 my boyfriend convinced me to go to the beach in a bathing suit after 10 long years....it's still not something I'm comfortable with, but now I'm able to wear one and not feel like a complete idiot. My boyfriend even took photos of me on the beach with my bathing suit. My weight fluctuates rapidly so it depends on how I'm feeling about my appearance at the time.
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little_terry is giddy with success.
catalog
3 years ago
The land’s end bathing suit catalog arrived.
I think it’s a bad idea to buy a swimsuit you haven’t tried on. But it doesn’t stop me from perusing and wondering how to find a swimsuit that will cover my least favorite body part without going through a time warp to the 1880s. Or, alternately, I could buy a little skirted swimsuit that puts about 30 years on me. If I combined a skirted swimsuit with a bikini top, can I average the two appropriate ages? Maybe a tankhini. Chasing a toddler means thinking practically, right?
Or another alternate would be sticking to the darn weight watcher’s plan and getting to the bottom (rather than the top) of my appropriate weight/height range. That might help with the damn bathing suit issue.
little_terry is giddy with success.
aversion to water
3 years ago
My toddler has taken an aversion to water the last few weeks (complete with hysterical tantrums through the few baths we’ve forced him into). I may not have to go to the beach at all this summer.
little_terry is giddy with success.
swimsuit
3 years ago
This is a goal for the summer. Not that I totally wouldn’t wear one, but I want to feel comfortable enough to just play with my son on the beach and not get ridiculously self conscious about it.
