TV made me mad!!!

dulceluva
dulceluva Posts: 728 Member
edited September 18 in Motivation and Support
I am watching the show Bulging Bride.

She is 5'2, 122 lbs and a size 4-6. And she said...OMG. I am a porker!! :sad:

I am 4'10, and 165 lbs. That means I am an elephant. *sigh* The above stature is where I would LOVE TO BE!!

I am so mad right now. I can't believe she thinks she is a porker....

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  • dulceluva
    dulceluva Posts: 728 Member
    I am watching the show Bulging Bride.

    She is 5'2, 122 lbs and a size 4-6. And she said...OMG. I am a porker!! :sad:

    I am 4'10, and 165 lbs. That means I am an elephant. *sigh* The above stature is where I would LOVE TO BE!!

    I am so mad right now. I can't believe she thinks she is a porker....
  • zenmama
    zenmama Posts: 1,000
    Anything for attention huh? You are fine just the way you are and you will be there in no time! I am 5'1" and I too am a heffer!:noway:

    dd
  • erin83070
    erin83070 Posts: 78 Member
    I'm only 4' 9" and 120 - 126 is my goal as well! I'm really not sure how much I've lost so far, but people are starting to notice and my clothes are starting to get loose on me.:happy:

    I think i might start keeping track of my percentage of weight loss since 5 lbs looks way different on me than my taller pals. It's one of the reasons I'm not anxious to get on a scale. I noticed a lot of people here can lose that in a week , but it can take me a month or more to do it. I'm trying to go an inches, feel and what the mirror says. I'm starting to get a glimpse of who I was ten years ago! Do you find being under 5' tall, you lose pretty slowly? I think most of us know the BMI hs many problems attached but is completely inaccurate for people under 5'.:noway: I onlly just found that out myself!
  • AndreaMMil
    AndreaMMil Posts: 165
    Oh stop it you two, you're gorgeous! Hefer, my butt! I agree with Zen, anything for attention. Oh poor me, I'm 6 ounces overweight. Now, if you're looking for a cow brigade leader, that'd be me!
  • AndreaMMil
    AndreaMMil Posts: 165
    Oops, just missed your reply, Erin.
    Under 5 feet must have it's advantages. The word "petite" for example would never be used to describe me. *sigh* A girl can dream, can't she?
  • eyescatchfire
    eyescatchfire Posts: 257 Member
    I'm five feet tall, and I started this at 190! I could lose half of me and still be "normal"! I think I'm losing at a pretty good clip, but I think that might be because I have so much to lose. If I only wanted to lose a few pounds, I'm sure it would go slower. Of course, if I weight 122 pounds, I wouldn't be looking to lose a damn thing. ;)
  • lotusfromthemud
    lotusfromthemud Posts: 5,335 Member
    LOL, I was watching the same show, and as soon as she said that, I turned it off.

    If I weighed 122, granted, I've got about 6 inches on that lady,. . . I'd be a skeleton.
  • morocculous
    morocculous Posts: 15
    Televison is really becoming garbage!!!!!!!!!!!!those people on those shows are so stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!please don't let that get in to you !...We really need more realistic shows on tv it's an epidemia ,beetween women behaving like trash on reality shows and anorexique wannabe girls i just don't know:mad:
  • Nich0le
    Nich0le Posts: 2,906 Member
    Goes to show you that our perception of ourselves is different from how the world actually sees us. I am 5'9" and when I met my husband I was 150 lbs and thought I was enormous and now that is my goal weight so it must not have been so bad! lol :laugh:
  • dulceluva
    dulceluva Posts: 728 Member
    lol glad to see I am not alone in my thoughts.

    I too turned it off but wanted to see her results. She ended up weighing in at 114 lbs and lost 5 inches are her stomach. I bet you she wouldn't be satisfied unless she was like 100 lbs or something.

    I know that according to charts, people our height should be weight 100-114 but that is just unrealistic.

    to answer your questions. Yes! being shorter has made losing weight so much harder not to mention that I look 10x fatter. :laugh:

    I would be totally happy being 122 lbs at 4'10. Absolutely happy.
  • dulceluva
    dulceluva Posts: 728 Member
    Goes to show you that our perception of ourselves is different from how the world actually sees us. I am 5'9" and when I met my husband I was 150 lbs and thought I was enormous and now that is my goal weight so it must not have been so bad! lol :laugh:

    Oh so true. I was reading a diary entry from my high school days when I was my heaviest 135. Of course 135 to me at my stature made me feel like a blimp in comparison ot all my friends. All those skinny beautiful girls who got all the attention, made me dissatisfied with my body. I was always trying to lose the weight...starvation, diet pills, whatever (except the right thing).

    Wow. I would love to 135 again.
  • lizard9800
    lizard9800 Posts: 474 Member
    Goes to show you that our perception of ourselves is different from how the world actually sees us. I am 5'9" and when I met my husband I was 150 lbs and thought I was enormous and now that is my goal weight so it must not have been so bad! lol :laugh:

    I am just shy of 5'9" and was also 150 lbs when I met my boyfriend. I knew I was a tad heavier than normal but nothing detremental. Now that I've started this I was Plesantly Surprised at 180, Very Happy at 170, Giddy now at 160. I'm sure I will be Ecstatic at 150 again and pass out at 140 (from joy, not starvation!!)

    :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
  • filergirl
    filergirl Posts: 240
    TV always makes me mad!

    Or sad.

    Or both.

    Unless it's satire.
  • filergirl
    filergirl Posts: 240
    Add to that:

    I've been in danger of becoming one of those people with a "distorted view" -- the annoying, non-fat person who whines incessantly about her porkerdom. While in Montreal, I was looking in the mirror and seeing someone who is fat. I'd been eating A LOt of pastries, and not working out (mostly due to recent epic battle with the flu), and I was convinced everyone else could see this, too.

    I got back to Toronto, and looked at the pictures, and realized I am no longer chubby. I look slim. Moreover, I have not and will become chubby from four days of eating croissants.

    Mirrors are the enemy.
  • dulceluva
    dulceluva Posts: 728 Member
    Add to that:

    I've been in danger of becoming one of those people with a "distorted view" -- the annoying, non-fat person who whines incessantly about her porkerdom. While in Montreal, I was looking in the mirror and seeing someone who is fat. I'd been eating A LOt of pastries, and not working out (mostly due to recent epic battle with the flu), and I was convinced everyone else could see this, too.

    I got back to Toronto, and looked at the pictures, and realized I am no longer chubby. I look slim. Moreover, I have not and will become chubby from four days of eating croissants.

    Mirrors are the enemy.

    Funny thing though, I think my problem is the way I think. When I was bigger, I was in denial. I never saw a really big person in the mirror. I saw me! Sure I knew i wasnt skinny but I didn't see a huge problem with what I saw in the mirror. As I lost the weight, I only saw what I knew. Which lead me to believe that I never saw me in the mirror. I saw what I thought I was. Even when I dropped like 40 lbs, I still saw bigger me. And that view probably aided me in gaining back the weight and then some. I never saw Skinny Anita. Just what I thought I looked like.

    I look back on pictures now and wish I was that 40-50 lbs girl I was a couple of years ago.
  • filergirl
    filergirl Posts: 240
    Yeah, I hear you. I had to read that twice but it makes sense, and I think I've done something similar, though maybe not in quite the same order.

    Add to that:

    I've been in danger of becoming one of those people with a "distorted view" -- the annoying, non-fat person who whines incessantly about her porkerdom. While in Montreal, I was looking in the mirror and seeing someone who is fat. I'd been eating A LOt of pastries, and not working out (mostly due to recent epic battle with the flu), and I was convinced everyone else could see this, too.

    I got back to Toronto, and looked at the pictures, and realized I am no longer chubby. I look slim. Moreover, I have not and will become chubby from four days of eating croissants.

    Mirrors are the enemy.

    Funny thing though, I think my problem is the way I think. When I was bigger, I was in denial. I never saw a really big person in the mirror. I saw me! Sure I knew i wasnt skinny but I didn't see a huge problem with what I saw in the mirror. As I lost the weight, I only saw what I knew. Which lead me to believe that I never saw me in the mirror. I saw what I thought I was. Even when I dropped like 40 lbs, I still saw bigger me. And that view probably aided me in gaining back the weight and then some. I never saw Skinny Anita. Just what I thought I looked like.

    I look back on pictures now and wish I was that 40-50 lbs girl I was a couple of years ago.
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