I've been thinking about my body image/appearance issues lately. I'm a chubby girl. (Life-long broken thyroid, really hard to lose weight, wonky metabolism, blah blah blah.) On bad days this makes me feel awkward and uncomfortable. On really bad days I hate myself for it and don't want to see or talk to anyone. On good days I am fully in touch ( Read more... )

I have rosacea, a skin condition that causes redness on the face. Sometimes it just looks like I have rosy cheeks and other times it's an icky, blotchy mess. I've been proactive in the last year or so with skin care, as I learned that everything I had been doing was wrong. I've had fewer bad face days lately, although I have been noticing a weird ( Read more... )