I had a feeling I would read all of you this way. What an honest fantastic bunch!

Here's the rub: if we all feel this way, why do we stress out so much about looking like that beautiful tennis gal Anna Kournikova, or model Cindy Crawford, or their male counterparts (funny, but it is a lot harder for me to come up with examples for the guy side). Obviously I think we all agree that to just let oneself GO completely is unhealthy and probably out of the question (though there may be something said for living a hedonistic lifestyle in all ways: food, drink, sex, to the excess [but that may be another thread]), but to obsess about being perfectly supple here, and perfectly plump down there, and perfectly flat right in the middle like the young girls I teach do, or my sister's at the pub do, or my wonderfully diverse size-wise male friends do...what are we thinking? Who are we trying to impress? Eachother? Ourselves? Some fashion phantom?

What a quandary!

Thanks to Nathan in Texas for keeping me honest and thanks to Skipjack K8 for the nice "language" comment!