Guest guest Posted October 5, 2003 Report Share Posted October 5, 2003 Okay here goes my new mantra for the next decade (at least): F**K NUMBERS! LMAO! Lucille In a message dated 10/4/2003 10:24:31 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Graduate-OSSG writes: > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 14:51:11 EDT > From: BethVBG@... > Subject: Re: Three years out and still losing > > In a message dated 10/3/03 10:49:27 AM Central Daylight Time, > vickiang@... 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 > ----------------- > > 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 " > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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