A fresh start that’s what New Year is all about; wiping the slate clean and getting to begin again. It’s supposed to be exciting and inspiring and it is – unless it involves getting naked for a brand new guy for the first time in ages when you know you’ve put on 5lbs over the holidays and you think your arse now resembles the back end of a bus!
I have two absolutely gorgeous friends deliberating ways to delay getting naked right now and I feel for them I really do. We can curse the media, Hollywood and advertising companies for bombarding us with images of ‘perfect’ photo shopped bodies all we want, but we have to accept now that they’re never going to stop. It’s time to find a way to mentally block it out ladies, because it’s only going to get worse.
Firstly, can you let yourself off for not being perfect in 2012?
Well let’s face it, do we stay annoyed at the media for filling our lives with fake images we think we have to live up to? No, on a day-today basis we get angry and blame ourselves for being weak-willed, undisciplined, generally lumpy and a bit too wobbly. We’re all given a random body through what is basically a cosmic draw then shout at ourselves if we don’t transform it into the homogenized ‘made up’ idea of perfection.
We’re nuts!
So in the spirit of New Year could you please take a hard look at yourself and let go of all the ‘woulda, shoulda, coulda’s’ hanging around from 2012. I mean it, beating yourself up for not exercising more is NOT ALLOWED to be carried over to 2013.
So what if you ate too much over the holidays? It’s done, it’s the past – we are wiping the slate clean ladies.
Set yourself brand new goals this January, and if you want to be healthier in 2013 then the healthiest thing you can do right now is let the old ones go!
Secondly, accept the fact that the majority of men LOVE curves, their primal instinct programs them to go for women with boobs and hips and an arse you can grab a few handfuls of.
Don’t believe me? Well according to the AskMen ‘Great Male Survey of 2012’:
‘What one thing would you change about your woman?’
32% Nagging
28% Wouldn’t change a thing (aaaww, sweet!)
28% Her sexual appetite
14% Her domestic skills
Do you see anything about body or weight there?
Literally thousands of men from four different countries took part in this survey and they DID NOT mention your weight. In fact the stupid sods are still more bothered about whether you can cook and clean!
I know it’s terrifying to get naked with a new man; I just did it a month ago. I hadn’t been with anyone for 18 months and I’m a good 30lbs overweight with the biggest barrel tummy I’ve ever had, so believe me I wanted to keep everything covered up. Did he care? No! He went straight for the boobs and then his hands positively reveled in my womanly wobble the entire time. He kept saying how amazing it was to touch a woman again, to feel her warmth and hold her close; he even ran his hands over my belly marveling at how soft my skin was.
Humans are tactile creatures, we all want to be touched and held and we all get a little bit lonely, men included. Men just want to feel you close and enjoy the intimacy – oh and play with your boobs!
I promise you ladies men don’t even notice that extra 5lbs, in fact I did my own a survey a couple of years ago and guy friend recently confirmed it for me.
‘Men don’t give a shit about jiggly bits, men are simple they want just one thing – have the girl there!’
So let it go and let it all hang out girls! Happy Hew Year.
