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[dsqard]

I just want to say good luck to all you ladies (and any gentlemen) out there that are fighting that herculean fight with weight and thank you for sharing your stories. I know it cannot be easy knowing how intolerant and insensitive the public is at times when it comes to being overweight. Where people would never think to say something rude to a person with a mental disability or a different physical disability, saying something mean to someone overweight still seems to be social acceptable in some people's minds. Deb, I completely understand the whole "easy keeper" reference and that is the kind of person I am now. Thanks to menopause, it seems like I can gain weight on air. I have to be incredibly careful with what I eat. I have to keep my calorie intake between 1000 and 1500 a day if I want to not gain anything and less if I want to shed a few pounds. While I am not overweight, I understand the struggle to not eat more than you should. Keep up the good fight everyone! I am so glad this thread can be here to support each other in trying to stay healthy (well as healthy as our aging bodies will allow )

 

[perchie.girl]

I just want to say good luck to all you ladies (and any gentlemen) out there that are fighting that herculean fight with weight and thank you for sharing your stories. I know it cannot be easy knowing how intolerant and insensitive the public is at times when it comes to being overweight. Where people would never think to say something rude to a person with a mental disability or a different physical disability, saying something mean to someone overweight still seems to be social acceptable in some people's minds. Deb, I completely understand the whole "easy keeper" reference and that is the kind of person I am now. Thanks to menopause, it seems like I can gain weight on air. I have to be incredibly careful with what I eat. I have to keep my calorie intake between 1000 and 1500 a day if I want to not gain anything and less if I want to shed a few pounds. While I am not overweight, I understand the struggle to not eat more than you should. Keep up the good fight everyone! I am so glad this thread can be here to support each other in trying to stay healthy (well as healthy as our aging bodies will allow

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Thank you I wont share a real pic of me unless I am comfortable.... The old folks and maybe one or two others I have adopted as my extended family... Believe me you guys are much better than family.

Back when I was 24 - 25 I had serious success with Weight Watchers.... I lost 56 pounds in 26 weeks and kept it off for about four years... I was an avid horse rider, and CW Dancer... but the weight had crept up to about 190 ish. I had a melt down over a photo of me and joined WW after that. I was still riding in the afternoon and dancing in the evening... But I added a one mile walk at lunch time...

Something interesting happened.... One of the guys I worked with day to day and really didnt get a long with... complemented me... He said... "Did you cut your hair or something"... I said No... why.... "you just look more intelligent for some reason..."

Same weight loss period had just finished the Maintenance period and went on a Caribbean cruise. Only gained one pound... YAy... But got an outstanding tan in the process. I went out dancing after I got home... I was a fan of wrap around dresses... I will flaunt it if I have it to show off... LOL. So I went to the bar for a wine spritzer... and a hunky fellow asked me to dance. I thought Wow mY live HAS changed.. So out on the dance floor as usual the people without dance partners would congregate in the middle for line dancing while the two steppers would circle around the outside.. He started making snide comments about the "fat chicks" in the middle... I said "what did you say?" he repeated... I told him off and walked off and left him in the middle of the dance floor... with no partner... I felt good.

Then I came to the realization that the weight loss only changed my appearance... not my personality... and I was there all the time... intelligent, good dancer, and for the most part kind... The ONLY difference it gave me was a confident presence.

I want Confidence back. I want movement back..... and most of all I want to live.

deb

 

[Cynthia12]

Weight is a tough one for a lot of folks, including me. Smokers got it tough? We have to eat, you don't have to smoke..Hear that one before? It's a hard battle with either problem. And with both, harder for some, easier for others to fight it. Genes? I think yes. Emotions? I think yes. Brought up life style? I think yes. Depression? I think yes. So many reasons to battle, in any case that has you doing something you don't want to do, or being a certain way you don't want to be. Battles.

Note to Deb. your left arm is more tan than your right arm. Are you one to hang an arm out the car window while driving? Ey? I used to have that happen to me, so just wondered.

 

[perchie.girl]

Weight is a tough one for a lot of folks, including me. Smokers got it tough? We have to eat, you don't have to smoke..Hear that one before? It's a hard battle with either problem. And with both, harder for some, easier for others to fight it. Genes? I think yes. Emotions? I think yes. Brought up life style? I think yes. Depression? I think yes. So many reasons to battle, in any case that has you doing something you don't want to do, or being a certain way you don't want to be. Battles.

Note to Deb. your left arm is more tan than your right arm. Are you one to hang an arm out the car window while driving? Ey? I used to have that happen to me, so just wondered.

my job these days is driving.... Drive mom to the pharmacy... drive grandma to the doctors appointments.... Drive my son to the college... when he has an appointment. All of them depend on me for various pick up and delivery.... Mom for groceries... Grandma for all the shopping here....

and every once and a while I get to drive myself to go visit my house and Yep I hang my arm out because its the ONly sun I get... and while I like the coolness of AC i dont like the closed in part of driving with the AC on... so when its me... I have the AC on my feet and the window open.

Just got in its 100 degrees out.... came back from getting stuff to make dinner.



deb

 

[Cynthia12]

Oh, triple digit weather, I do not like it! Glad we got that over with this past June, and that was early, then the July weather was weird..hot, then warm, then cooler than normal. I'm ok with it, just wondering what that winter is going to be like this yr. No snow last yr. meant be careful with water again. Not as bad as Cal. but getting there I think. We need that snow up on those mountains! Oh, and I hear ya with that ac on the feet..ahhh..........

 

[superchemicalgirl]

This was incredibly hard to share but I think its appripro to the conversation

deb

Thank you for trusting us enough to share it. You're right that we love you

 

[drumstick diva]

My BYC friends are the only ones I do trust.

 

[dsqard]

Group hug everyone!

 

[drumstick diva]

PERFECT - dsgard

 

[Peep_Show]

Just watched the Evening News. Apparently there's the Godzilla of El Ninos happening, which means mega floods after droughts. This winter scheduled to be the wettest one in a long time.

I know that out here in NM we've had the wettest July in a bit. Nice for the yard, though. I wonder if that means we'll get lots of snow or lots of rain this winter..... Either way, flood insurance is paid up.