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Yes - I had never met her before yesterday. She is from a different country but has lived in the US for many years. I know that fat discrimination has happened for a long time but to have someone say it directly to me is just hurting me on so many levels. I'm not sure I will ever forget this, and maybe I shouldn't.

I'm not sure how I feel about this one: I must have graduated to the "Not Fat" designation in stranger's minds. Today I had to show the owner's daughter, who has never met me, what I do at my job. She sat with me for two full hours. Our conversation wandered to recruiting and hiring people, and she mentioned something to…

I got my A1C down to 5.3!!! That's a non-diabetic number, from a woman who has been as high as 8.4. Yes, I still take the Metformin for blood sugar, but I've had to cut back because I'm starting to get blood sugar lows. Huh - I guess the doctors were right all along - Eat better, lose weight, exercise consistently and I…

Sorry - just now seeing this! My build is kinda strange, but allover it probably averages to "Average" build. My wrists and ankles are small, but my shoulders are HUGE. Really, I can see the bones and muscles through the skin so they won't get much smaller. And my arm, back, leg, etc. muscles are really large for a woman.…

I make a ziplock baggie with baby carrots and other cut up raw veggies. If you have a way to keep it cold, you can bring a little tub of Light Ranch Dip too.

UPDATE: Well, I got down to 185 according to his scale but 182 according to mine. He was still happy that I lost 49 lbs over the year. Then he asked what my goal weight is. I told him 150, possibly down to 140. He told me to try for 135, and that anything over 150 at my height (5 ft 5") is still too much. My bubble of…

Two for me: I fit into size 14 pants! I started July 25th wearing size 22W. At that time I picked up a size 14 off a rack in the store and thought they were impossibly tiny, and that it would be a miracle if I ever got that small. 5 months later I'm wearing them and I still have around 40 lbs to lose to get to a healthy…

Me! I drink 2 to 4 cans per day of Diet Pepsi. I know some choose not to drink diet soda and that is fine. But the studies I have read showing harm to lab rats... they give them absolutely ridiculous amounts of sweetener that no human would even consider consuming. I understand that plain water would be better for me but I…

OMG! Your mom sounds exactly like mine. Nothing, repeat NOTHING, makes her happy. I always say that if she won $250 million in the Powerball lottery, she'd complain endlessly because she had to drive to the Lotto office 30 miles away. After all these years, I have just decided that I can't fix her attitude. All I can do is…

I've lost almost 50 lbs this year and diet soda has been my constant companion. I feel like it is my ONE vice left, and they can pry it out of my cold dead hands. If my doctor tells me "Great! You've lost 50 lbs! Now we really gotta talk about your Diet Pepsi habit." then I might consider it. But he hasn't mentioned it yet…

I confess that I really really hope my husband decides not to attend our friends' annual New Year's Eve get-together. I just want to stay home all weekend. It has been a really tough two weeks at work, and we do not get any extra days off for the holidays, and I'm just tired. Everyone else got at least Monday off because…

Thank you for your work in the hospital! My husband broke his leg in January 2016 and spent two days in the hospital after surgery. Seeing the overweight patients struggling to recover, watching the hospital staff struggle to help them, and sitting in a hospital surgery waiting room with the patients' families is one of…

For the first time EVER, in my ENTIRE life, I got rid of a belt because it is now too big. I pulled it out of the closet and wrapped it around my waist and the last hole is about 2 - 3 inches from where I need a belt to latch. I'm keeping it with my one pair of "fat pants" so when I reach my goal weight I can take some…

My goal has changed several times. I started the year at 234 lbs and thought 180 would be "good enough" for a final goal. I'm a 5ft 5.5inch female, so I quickly realized that 180 is NOT a healthy weight. So I decided on 150, which is at the very top of the Healthy range of the BMI chart. Now I'm rethinking 150. I'm still…

I'm Type 2 and try to restrict my carbs but usually end up with 120-ish per day. Probably not the best way to go about things but I had to be honest with myself. Low Carb / Atkins works for me for a while but I needed something long term that I could stick to to lose around 90 lbs over a year's time. I figured that since I…

I started 2016 at 234 lbs and lost 12 on my own, then joined MFP at the end of July 2016 at 222 lbs. Total weight loss to date is 45 lbs. (Hit 189 today). I started in size 22W pants and now wear size 16 regular. I have spent the entire past week feeling like I am SOOOOOOOOO FAAAAARRRRRRR from my goal of 150 lbs. I'm glad…

I'm totally not feeling the holiday spirit. I work in payroll / benefits and the busiest most eff'd up time of year is late November through the end of January, when W-2 forms get mailed out. Every year is sucky, but this year is especially bad. I just don't care about Christmas this year and I feel bad because my husband…

I have definitely found the same thing. I started at size 22W. After I dropped a few pounds, people would pat me on the back and tell me "Great Job! I'm so proud of you for trying to lose weight!" Now that I have got down to size 16 and am still dropping steadily, these people seem a tiny bit scared. I can't explain it,…

Just freakin' AMAZING! Your face pics don't even look like the same person. You got this!

This might be the biggest NSV for me of all. I've been on MFP since July 25 2016 and have lost a little over 30 lbs and dropped from 22W to size 16 pants. All this time, my husband has tolerated my changed eating habits and put up with my need to exercise, but he did not join in the fun. Yesterday he said, "OK - how does…

I admit it.... sometimes I purposely "forget" to put my outgoing mail in the OUT box at work until after the mailman comes. Then I volunteer to walk all of the office mail over to the Post Office. It is probably only 1/8th of a mile, but if I take the stairs and walk the 1/8th mile both ways, it is a good 5 minute…

The cold is killing me! And I'm going on a weekend trip with my husband this Friday and Saturday, where the temp is forecast to be a HIGH of 27 degrees - AAGGGHHHHH!!!! I was thinking that I would be totally miserable all weekend, but this morning I realized that I can fit back into my thermal underdrawers again. And now…

I have an appointment on January 11th for my annual checkup with my general practitioner. Last year, he pretended to be excited that I had lost 8 lbs between January 2015 and December 2015. I weighed 234 at the end of December 2015, and my goal is to get down to 184 by my January 11 2017 appointment. That would be a 50-lb…

I had a defective pair of jeans - I always wash brand new clothes before wearing, and they fell apart in the washer. Literally dissolved in several large hand-size spots. I took them back to the store and they offered a refund or replacement. If you still have the receipt, return them!

Two for me this week. I bought a size 16 pair of jeans, not 16W but 16 regular! That means I'm down 4 pants sizes since July 25. And I had quit wearing many of my bracelets - they were just too tight around my wrist. I pulled one out of the drawer yesterday and it is now too big! It has an elastic band and it slid up and…

Talk to your doctor first - especially if you had any kind of surgery to set the bones. Sometimes they recommend that you don't do ANY kind of exercise for a few weeks. As long as your doctor clears it, you can do upper body strength training or ab work. Just remember that 80 - 90 percent of weight loss is diet, not…

Just letting you all know that you have inspired me to get rid of my old clothes. I think I was hanging on to them, thinking somewhere in the back of my head, that I might not succeed and keep the weight off. Now I realize I am giving myself a loophole and I CANNOT do that. I will keep one big pair of pants so I can do the…

Started at US size 22W, 222 lbs. Currently 198 lbs and size 16 regular. Goal is 150 lbs, guessing that would be a size 10? Not sure because they have changed so much over the years. 5 ft 5.5 inches tall.

Denial, excuses, and plain ignorance about the sheer number of calories I was stuffing into my face all day long. I went from a normal weight working in retail (on my feet all day) to a desk job and gained 20 to 30 lbs the first year. Then spent 10 years losing and gaining 20 lbs of that weight. Then I stress-ate after a…

My plan is to eat a little of anything I want on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve. I'll have a taste of whatever I want but I refuse to gorge myself like I have in years past. Really - I would eat until the SKIN on my belly hurt, not just the inside. I haven't seen my family in about 3 months, so they will be…