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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 "

>

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