Summertime Blues

[Squeaker]

I have long thick hair that I wear down a lot in summer

Same here - this is the first year I've thought "To **** with it" and tied it up in some sort of mess on top of my head. Ok I look like a walking haystack but at least I get some breeze down the back of my neck and I don't get the great huge clumps of matted sweaty hair underneath. I SO want short straight hair but if I cut mine, I look like a freak so I'm stuck with what feels like a big thick quilt hanging down my back.

[DebbieY]

I have long hair too, but it's not thick, so I don't think it bothers me as much. Although it's normally in a ponytail during the weekend. I just don't always like it in a ponytail anymore. It's almost feels too long for a ponytail and annoys me at times when I it hits the back of my neck.

I wonder if weight has an effect though on how a person views a season. I know in high school, I LOVED Spring and Summer. I wasn't heavy and it seemed that I didn't get as hot as frequently. I do like it cold though. My house has to be a virtual icebox before I can fall asleep at night. But I have noticed that the heat isn't bothering me as much as it used to since I've lost the 50+ pounds.

Part of me wonders if I'll start to like summer a lot more once I got down to my goal weight and start wearing the type of clothing that looks best during the season, without feeling embarrassed.

[Squeaker]

Part of me wonders if I'll start to like summer a lot more once I got down to my goal weight and start wearing the type of clothing that looks best during the season, without feeling embarrassed.__________________

I never used to bother about summer weather until about 15 years ago - stangely enough it was after I'd moved from London to the so-called cooler north. Not only do I NOT like exposing all the fat bits moving around in different directions all at once, I also HATE geting so sweaty.
Recently my dh bought an electric fan for every room and it is BLISS

[america57]

Mjett37,

I live about 30 miles from Waldorf, right on the Chesapeake Bay. That may be another reason I don't like July, the jelly-fish come into the water and you can't swim in it while they are there without getting stung! Bugaboo, I do draw all my shades and sit in the cool dark and read everyday, there I was treating myself without knowing it.
My mother died July 5th, 32 years ago when I was 16, and my husband and I were going through a really bad patch, I came home from work one day in July to find he had packed all his stuff and was moving back home with his mother. That lasted about 4 months, so I guess I have good reason to feel bad in July. Have you ever heard that Dixie Chicks song Cold Day in July? That's me! I'm usually better by August, just don't like July.

[LOWCARBINCLEVELANDOH]

I get the Summertime Blues in August.

Daily intentional exercise helps!

[mjett37]

America 57, wow I can now understand how you feel, May does it for me my mother passed away 4 yrs ago at age 49, cause unkown but we have heard that my sister who lives in ca poisioned her, who knows, but I tend to get depressed in the winter more than the summer but this summer is different I have been depressed this July too don't know what's going on.