Just need to vent.....

[CatOwner1966]

Ok here you go....print out this picture and and hand it out to all the fat ladys and then laugh your ass off

Ask them if this is what runs through there minds evertime they look at the new you.

http://by107fd.bay107.hotmail.msn.c...53a07192fe5ae3111b0ec2823879d2025&mimepart=14

It didn't show up

 

[Sassy69]

I wonder if a response like "You know my quality of life & energy and whole outlook & confidence has just been soaring since I dropped that excess weight...." and just walk away smiling. It really makes me wonder if they might actually HEAR that and take a look at themselves. When you can't even get up to go for a walk w/o heaving like you just ran a marathon or can't sit down to play w/ your kids or whatever -- don't you think they would want a better quality of life? Or just accept their lot as fat piles of pathetic depressed shit and be miserable until the day they die?

I guess I think of my cousin alot. He's 2 days older than I am and weighs in at 450 lbs at 6' tall. I'm amazed he doesnt' have type II diabetes yet and frankly I'm amazed he's even still alive. He's been miserable most of his life. He has the most depressiign out look on everything and really is a pain to invite to family gatherings because he usually almost breaks my mom's nice dinign room chairs when he sits on them and just really leaks negative karma everywhere. I mean, what could've been a beautiful life (he's the sweetest guy, smart as shit & really a big hearted person) seems to just live with this dark depressing pall around him all the time.

He did look into gatric bypass last yr but they told him he'd need to lose at least 50 lb first (a la Atkins diet) before they could safely stress is body that much w/ the surgery itself. I'm not really sure I understand this part - they didn't really give him good nutrition counseling when he started explorign this option and he was just beside himself w/ the fact that he'd never be able to eat pizza again. I don't think that's really true but goddammit, if there's really a decision to be made between eatign another pizza and having a healthy body, there's some priority problems there.

Anyway - if you've achieved somethign that makes your life a better thing, then fuck the world that criticizes you about it. Their comments are ignorant, jealous and frankly just reflective of their own issues. If they aren't interested in learnign soemthign about a healthy lifestyle, then they will never experience the joy & sense of self that you obviously have found. Sad way to spend your life.

 

[CatOwner1966]

I agree and I WAS chubby before I lost this weight and was just miserable about it cause for years I was able to maintain a good weight which I'll be able to do again. People who are resentful to thin and fit people because they are overweight and miserable are the ones with the REAL issues. We are the ones who eat right and excersize and what in the hell are they doing? I've cried enough tears. I'm am very grateful to you guys for your support and understanding of what I'm putting up with from snotty/obnoxious fatties who try to attack me because I have succeeded. Well, I've succeeded because I decided that my health was very important to me and that I don't want to end up with the same type of problems that my father had 20 years from now. My father had type-2 diabetes,2 heart attacks and 2 amputations and my father passed away on December 25th of 1991. Nuff said.

 

[panache]

I love how people think its acceptable to make comments on someone's appearance at all!

seriously! Where do people get their manners! Regardless of whether you're fat, short, tall or have a cold sore on your mouth, I fail to understand why people have to mention it at all

 

[caligirl]

Take your cooler with you to work, park it on your desk, and make tons of noise while your EATING every 2-3 hours... make sure they see you. Next thing they will be saying is "you eat too much".
Bottom line you look hot, hold your head high!!!!

 

[krissy]

Never listen to other people, do what feels best for you, like you said YPU know what is your history. And you are right you should not have to explain yourself and you don't. DO WHAT FEELS RIGHT

 

[nokaoibeachgirl]

Oh boy do I ever feel you girls! It seems that some women don't like hanging around me as much now that I am not 185 lbs anymore. I guess they don't look as hot standing next to me as they used to. And they too say " you are getting too thin", well actually I am 5'6 1/2 and I weigh 140ish pounds, and plan to drop another 12- 15 lbs. They ask well where will it come from? Stupid bitches, don't want to recognize their own weight problems so create imaginary weight problems for us to justify their own misery. Power to all of the ladies who have made the choice to become happy and healthy and to leave their fat selves behind!!! You go girls!!!

 

[heatherrae]

I have found that sometimes people give the old "you shouldn't lose any more" comment as a sort of compliment which means, I couldn't imagine you could lose another ounce and look any better. To some people this is a weird way of saying that you can't look any better. Other people say it out of frustration. Some people just don't know how to lose weight. They try one fad diet after another, and, of course, they don't work. Then, they see you lose weight and they imagine that you must not eat anything because they can't get the same results on their diets.

Regardless, keep your sense of humor with them. =-)