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Do you know what really pisses me off? I know you are all just dieing

to know!!!

I have always been the fattest one in the family. Ergo I had

my " role " . Now I am smaller than my (evil) stepmother, and she is

pissed as hell. She keeps sending me these God awful clothes, saying

they are too big for her and maybe I could use them. They are plain

fugly, no matter what the size. She has started a bad mouth campaign

against me to the whole family.

This is all her problem. She wants to keep me under her thumb. She

wants to feel superior. I am threatening her space.

Too bad. I am happy with where I am at, and if toxic people want to

bring me down, guess what? I don't need them nearly as much as they

think I do.

Smiles, Vicki

> I go and buy 10's. Usually, they are loose, but I wear baggy

clothes. LOL.

> I'm sitting here right now, in a pair of size 8 leather jeans that

my mother

> gave me. I KNOW they aren't too tight, but I feel like they are. .

(Ummm...I

> started my period today, too. Do ya think that has anything to do

with it?)

> She gave them to me, because she bought them, thinking in the same

distorted

> mind, that it is what she wears. I buy things to give to her in 4

and 6.

> She's 5'5, 115 lbs, 20 years out, and 66 years old on Monday. I had

to MAKE

> myself buy size medium in the S-M-L sizing charts. I bought a

couple of tee

> shirt style dresses at the Dollar Store this summer, and I'm sure

glad I

> went with what I knew was right, not what I thought I needed. They

fit

> perfectly. It only took me 20 years to learn to do that. I got into

6's

> about 15 years ago. I looked like death warmed over. I rebounded to

8-10's

> and am sure glad I did. I never really go by what I weigh, but how

I feel.

> And, by the way...double-digit sizes don't make you " large size. "

You

> already know that if you're " 8-10-12. " Your body doesn't change

because the

> clothes you wear say you have. It's all a marketing game.

>

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> Re: Three years out and still losing

>

> In a message dated 10/3/03 10:49:27 AM Central Daylight Time,

> vickiang@y... writes:

>

> > I look really thin at 140 (I'm 5'10)

> > Actually, people are starting to tell me I look ill. I'm not.

> >

> > Not meaning to offend you in any way, but I caught my breath when

I

> > read this. I am 5'10 " also and am at 219, a size 16. I can't

even

> > imagine being 140 at that height

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>

> I'm another one of those 5'10 " gals. I weigh 160 (okay,

today I

> weighed in at 161.5!) and wear a size 8/10/12. I can imagine

weighing 10

> pounds

> less, but I don't know where 20 pounds would come from. People

tell me that

> I'm

> " slender " (okay, exactly what does that mean?) but I can't get my

hands

> around this. I'm very hung up on the clothing size thing. Being

so tall, I

> need a

> " bigger " size, even though I'm " slender. " I get all these messages

from the

> media that a " double digit " size (a 10 or higher) is a " big " size.

Heck,

> " plus size " models wear 12's! I yearn for a size 6 but can't

imagine losing

> enough weight to get there. But yet, I know that those 5'10 "

models don't

> wear

> anything bigger than a size 6. I realize that at age 43 it's not

realistic

> to

> think I would be able to wear the size that " models " do, but head

games

> never

> are very realistic, are they?

> I don't think I'm fat, but I get wrapped up in thinking that

OTHER

> people will think I'm fat if they know what size clothing I wear.

I know

> several

> very short gals that wear size 6 and are " chunky " -- but I imagine

them

> thinking I'm fatter than they are because I'm wearing the 10 or 12.

> I know that I'm not being rational here. And I am in

therapy.

> Oh well, confessions of an Amazon! Thanks for listening!

>

> Beth

> Houston, TX

> VBG - Dr. Srungaram

> 05/31/00 - 314 lbs.

> 11/01/02 - Abdominoplasty

> 11/29/02 - 160 lbs.

> 5'10 "

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