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Thank you for sharing your input! You really got me thinking... and, honestly, I would say the opposite is true for me! I used to have conflicting feelings, back when I told myself that I should love my body just the way it was, without wanting a change. This was conflicting for two reasons: 1) I truly admired certain features on other bodies, in one way or another, despite the fact that I DO love my body, so I cannot deny that deep down I do desire change, and 2) my body always changes anyway, so what does it mean to "love my body just the way it is"? There is no definite size and shape to my body, completely... I am malleable! In my life, and as is also the case in the lives of many, my weight has fluctuated and so had my body shape by leaps and bounds. So, I actually found my feeling (of loving my body just the way it was) to be a state of mind that I can and will always have, but which is not defined by not changing. Change has nothing to do with not loving your body... but actually I have found that taking charge and taking control of the change which is actually TRULY loving your body, in action! As my signature states, I believe in investing in myself, in my body, because I love it... I do not see it as changing something that I hate. If I hated/disliked my body, I would sit on my bum all day, not do anything with it, and eat lots of potato chips and ice cream as I had done at one point in my insecure youth.

All that I have read about posture and back health is that corsets can help them! This can sometimes be recommended for those with back problems. The only thing I will add about this is that I have instructed that sleeping in a corset can be bad news for your back when you are starting out (if I remember correctly, within the first few months). Once your body is accustomed to corset training, then sleeping in a corset should no longer create a problem.

And to answer your other questions, I do not think that the body would deposit the fat elsewhere. I think the body will deposit the fat to the places into which the corset pushes the current fat of the belly. But I am no expert. Maybe someone else can better answer this question? And I am purchasing the under-bust corset style, simply because I only want to use these corsets for training and not for show, and getting an over-bust style complicates the sizing a bit more, which will make finding a corset to fit me more difficult. So, I just try to avoid any unnecessary complications!

Oh timarie thank you so much for your response. I had to read it twice to soak up all of the wisdom you speak with. I am at a point in my life where I am still experiencing many realizations about myself and who I am, searching. Hearing your way of seeing it really cleared my mind of how I have been seeing myself for so long. I think I have a fear that the people in my life will see me change and judge me in some way. It feels so amazing to have identified this problem that has been causing me stress! Now to move beyond feeling this way and start living My life .


I came back to my post and edited it to say I planned on getting an underbust and then saw your comment and see you think it is best also
I also think it is more ideal and even more sexy in my opinion, having an open chest just seems more exciting (;