feeling sorry for myself

L M A@@ OFF

Have your cry- then use this moment to to reclaim your goal. If the stats in your signature are accurate-- you may not be where you want to be- but you're certainly not fat!!

what peachpie said.  140 isn't fat!  Unless you're super short or something - but even then, I can't imagine 140 would qualify one as "fat"!

Might it help to work this, your words-- frustrating and sad experience -- into a "teaching moment" for the class?  Schools across the nation are spending big money to educate and curb bullying (how ironic political candidates are displaying the worst of it).  A friendly suggestion for you is to make the time to dig up what you can about respecting differences in size, color, age, etc. of all people and then present it during, for example, share time, health, or language.  It's your chance  to gain personal strength and, at the same time, shaping more kind attitudes in our youth like dear little Johnny (or is his name Donald by chance).  As you present the lesson, ask the students if they think the world would be boring if we were all alike. Now I understand why groups of teachers meet at a bar every Friday at 5:00.

So hard when you have made such progress.  Little twit.  I also wondered if maybe the supposed insulter is NOT telling other kids that, but the tattler is actually saying it and putting it off on the one kid.  Or, maybe the supposed insulter is saying it based on having seen you before?  Or maybe his older siblings or parents are saying things from before?  You know more than most of us how kids repeat things they have heard at home whether or not those things are true in reality.  I'm not saying that is right--just painting a broader "what if" picture.

I still remember riding on the Kindergarten field trip bus to the zoo about 10 years ago!  It was for my now-grade-9 son.  Another boy on the bus made fun of my SON because I was fat.  That really hurt.  This boy who said that--I have seen over the years as he and my son have been in school together--and he is a troublemaker/mean kid still.

But you are NOT fat!  You just posted all those awesome photos of you!  I still catch glimpses of myself and wonder, though:  am I thin?  Am I fat?  Like I wrote you after your NSV post the other day, I am in the same stage as you--working on those last 10 pounds, and dealing with old habits and new, dealing with old body image and new.  Dealing with old voices and new.

It is hard to be our own judge, but we have to decide who we are and where we are happy.

that thought crossed my mind as well - that maybe the kid has an older sibling who knew you when you were heavier?

Kids can be little ****s.  The end.  Don't let the words of a 7 year old get you down.  Have your cleansing cry, then stand up straight, look in the mirror and know that you are beautiful and most certainly NOT fat. 

You've come a long way. You look great. You aren't "fat." If you want, I can pick up Daisy and a couple of others and go visit this little **** He'll be a lot nicer in the future.

There is nothing more hurtful than a second grader. Well, maybe 15 year old girls. But they aren't human beings, technically speaking.

I am totally in the mood for a throw down... COME PICK ME UP!!!!

Oh and a side note Grim, hubby STILL LAUGHS about how you and JB found out there is "Commuter Daisy" who is pretty bad ass and then "Regular Daisy", take me out of the car and I am sweet as pie.  Hubby still likes to quote when we were pulling into the parking lot at Rosecliff in RI and I may or may not have yelled at the car in front of us "Hey Vermont the gas pedal is on the right" LOL 

You know I am the queen of flipping out, so I am down for a "visit".