Height/Weight/Age?
5'6"/155/ A little bit 38.
Will be 38 in December, my niece who is now 6, used to say that she was a little bit 6, more than five but not quite 6. I thought it was cute, but I guess a little bit 38 isn't as cute because at her age, she wants to be older. It doesn't really bother me to get older because I still feel like I'm 22.
I did get the comment just two weeks ago that I look younger, and someone asked how I managed to do that, she made no comment on my weightloss. I just said, losing over 100 pounds helps.
Janice
260/155/140
While I believe we shouldn't lie to ourselves, I don't think we should put ourselves down. Others think what we tell them about ourselves is the truth, and it becomes our truth. "So I think highly of myself... Lol" and "nothing special about me"
Your comments in other postings also put yourself down. I worry that either you believe these things, or you will believe them because you keep saying them.
While you need not boast and brag, I think you should repeat and affirm positive things about yourself.
Examples, that when you make a decision, you follow through (your choice to have bypass surgery is an example); that you are working to make healthy choices in your life. That you have beautiful long hair and great big eyes.
By the way, I believe the same thing about luck. That we can draw it to ourselves by seeing it in what we do. Not that bad things won't happen, they will. But that we can choose how we react to them.
A number of us that were overweight (and those that still are) do this. I think it takes making a choice to stop repeating the negative self images and working to replace them with positives, or at least neutrals.
Take care Amy, and thinking good thoughts of you.
-Pam
I lost over 100 lbs. before about 10 years ago. I got down to 135. I looked very beautiful. And I knew I was. Someone would tell me I looked beautiful and my responce was I know. I went through men like water. I had got the biggest head over my looks that everyone hated me. Well over a little time I gained the weight back a little at a time till I was bigger than before. So now I don't want to brag or let it go to my head. I was a bad,bad person and I never want to be like that again. I thought about it a lot before I had the gbs done. And I pray that my looks don't go to my head again. I don't like to see beautiful women that know they are beautiful. I know I am not ugly. I think I am just a person in this world trying to survive and take care of my kids. And for luck yes I do think I have bad luck. I sometime think I am being paied back for all the bad things I have done wrong in my life. I think god has some thing waiting good for me it will just be at his time not mine. All I can do is wait and do the best I can do with my life.
amy