It's All About the Looks Doesn't Matter If You Don't Work etc.

[NWGirl74]

Originally Posted by weezerfan84

When you're a smaller and healthier you tend to lead with that confidence. When you're out of shape you mentally are down on yourself and you feel less valuable. Once you lose weight and start noticing that people are checking you out more, it's going to increase your confidence. You automatically have something more to offer, which is your ability to look good, even if everything else remained the same from when you were heavier.

I would agree with this. I still don't have men checking me out, but I am definitely much happier and feel more confident at my current weight than I did a year and 30 lbs ago.

Originally Posted by JerZ

Not to be whiny about it but I feel a little sorry for the people being tricked by phony profiles, even if it is in the name of research. I mean OLD is hard enough for some people. Throw in outright lying and trickery on top of fudging of stats and high school yearbook photos and seriously...I'd probably just get a cat.

At the urging of a friend, I briefly tried an experiment where I changed my age from 41 to 38 but it didn't make a difference. I felt guilty about it and changed it back after a couple of days.

I've also considered changing my location to see if I'd have better luck somewhere else. It's a heckuva lot cheaper than moving! I don't currently have any active profiles though. I deleted them in January at the urging of the same friend who hated seeing how demoralizing it was for me.