short people don't get it. the end.


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I just got this today. I went to the Dr. and the nurse weighed me and started at 150. She nudged it a little. Then a little more. Did this a couple times til she moved it to the end. Then she had this look of amazement when she moved it to 200. I weighed 202(dressed and had just ate lunch :P). She didn't say anything but she looked dumbfounded. lol.

I had the same thing happen. The nurse ran the scale to 200 and i said, uh, no you need to go to 250 and she didn't believe me. Made me feel skinny

I'm 5'10" and currently weigh around 230lbs but I honestly don't feel like I carry it that badly, my current photo is recent.

However I find it hard to adjust my brain to thinking what a normal weight is for my height. Growing up I was constantly surrounded y my mums magazines that always seemed to suggest anything over 140lbs for a woman was a bad thing.

I would love to get back down to 168lbs, when I was younger and stupid, I starved myself down to about 142lbs and I did not look well at all, mainly because I wasn't.

I've lost a fair amount already but it feels like such a long stretch to make a really big difference.

It's always kind of awkward when a short person says something negative about high weight numbers because it's like yeah...that person you're talking badly about -- I weigh more than her. Thanks D*ck.

I used to be a camp counselor, and I was really muscular and 5'8" (I'm 5'10" now, but questions about that later) and would proudly tell the girls that I weighed 190. They looked up to me, and I think it helped their own self-image to know that not everyone was shooting for 135. They'd marvel for a bit, and then move on. I wish adults were as easy.

I weigh 222 now with a goal weight of 170-175 and one of the much shorter women at my work who is much rounder said "girl, I'll take your old clothes that are too big for you" and I kind of looked at her sideways and said "Well, sure, but they'd be WAY too big for you" and she leaned forward and whispered "I'm a size 14-16" and I kind of laughed and told her my cast offs were size 20. You should have seen her eyes! And then I got the ubiquitous "no way!".

But the point here? You're special. Sizes and single pounds don't mean the same thing to us as they do to shorter women. Yes, you have to work harder to see results, but the flip side of that is that a tiny backslide doesn't really show up, either. They're not being mean, they just don't KNOW. So smile when they gawk, because truthfully, they DO WISH they had your height. Even if they don't have a clue just what a pain that is.

I usually use this to see what I would look like at a certain weight -- http://www.mybodygallery.com/

Love this, thanks for sharing

When I last weighed 180, TWICE on those old-school manual scales a nurse weighed me in at 180, then wrote it down as 130. TWICE. She just ignored that 50 pounds altogether. So now my chart has these weird weights on it and another nurse thought I had gained 50 pounds between appointments. Good times

And for what it's worth, people are totally shocked if I tell them I weigh 201.5 right now - I get a lot of, "Wow, if I had to guess I would have thought 170-180." 185 is my goal weight.

SHANNON, you don't look that weight at all!! You look amazing, but when I show people pictures of when I was about 210 lbs. at 6 feet, they say, "ooooh, you were so skinny!" Yeah, it is hard for me to equate skinny to 210. But we are real tall too so I'll take the compliment.