meschultz

Hey everyone.. HAPPY bandiversary :thumbup: Sorry I am a few days late into October, but I have been busy.. I hope everyone had a successful year .. I have lost 122lbs and am loving it.. I have taken up a new hobby.. ICE SKATING..something I never ever dreamed I would do.. and thanks to this band I have been able to live my life a whole new way I have always live my life to the fullest, but now I can live even fuller.. and I plan to continue to make it better.. I wish everyone the best and congratulate you all on making it to this point in our journey.. we are rocking it

SpecialK thanks so much I will look into the other boards.. congrats on your weightloss it is awesome.

Thanks everyone.. I felt much better after my exercise and shower and venting and sleeping ha ha :frown: I woke up this morning as the same me.. who cares about Mrs. Olsen .. I have a fantastic life and a supportive family and a loving son so I don't have to worry about what some little old lady thinks of me :w00t: We all rock.. We have all come a long way.. Just choosing our journey is a difficult one and that fact that we are so successful on it shows what amazing people we are :tt1: Thanks again everyone.. I hope you all have a good weekend!!

Well.. I just need to vent and I know that people here will understand what I am talking about. So here it goes.. Why is it ok for a skinny person to call someone fat and NO one see anything wrong with this??? But, if I called that same skinny person UGLY I would be a horrible person.. Now I am not saying anyone is ugly that is just my example.. Here is the situation..For a year and a half I worked at a retail store and NEVER once had anyone comment to me about being fat and I was at my fattest of 431 lbs... Now that I have finally taken action and work my butt off on a daily basis to loose weight and have gotten down to 320 in less then a year I have people make more comments about me being fat then before and it is REALLY annoying. I have worked in a hospital for over a year now and during this time I have changed my life and the way i look at my life and the way I live my life...I love every minute of every day now. I look forward to working out.. I don't crave going out to my OLD favorite restaurants .. I NEVER eat fast food.. 98% of my meals are made in my home and walk 4.5 miles or more every day of the week and use the total gym every other day if not more.. So I am dedicated.. and I think my weightloss shows that.. Anyways, I got a new position at the hospital and I am working one on one with patients more often and in the past month I have had 3 patients refer to me as fat.. WELL YES i know I am fat.. obviously that I WHY i am doing something about it, but why do they have to comment and why do they feel they have a RIGHT to judge me.. They don't know what I do every night.. SO this older lady today decided to tell me how she works at a local theme park and Fat people will come to the park wearing a bikini top with their fat hanging out and she thinks it is gross.. I was just like "UMMMM OK" Now In all my time being fat I just want to set the record straight I have ALWAYS work respectable clothing. Just like I don't want to look at someone's muffin top I am sure they don't want to look at my rolls...So I have ALWAYS made sure to look nice and dress appropriately.. Back to the story.. I took this lady over to the area she was suppose to be in so that she was no longer in my face and as I went to leave I politely said "Mrs. Olson you have a lovely weekend" and she said .. "Oh wait, I want to say one more thing to you" and she comes up to me and says "please don't ever go to a theme park with a bikini top on" I WAS LIKE WHAT???? and just said Thank you and have a good day.. Being the better person I just walked away from the situation.. however, I was thinking later if I did not need to job that lady would have gotten a face full of fat ha ha.. If she only knew the things I did to change my weight.. and one day I will be skinny, but she will always be ugly.. and when I am skinny you can be assured I will go to that theme park with a bikini top on and walk right up to her and say " Oh hi Mrs. Olson, remember me? I am that "fat" girl you told not to wear an outfit like this.. SO BLAH!! I was mad at myself for allowing this lady to bother me so much that I almost did not work out tonight.. I took every ounce of my energy to get my a$$ outside and walking and by the end of my 6.5 miles I did tonight I was thankful I had the will power to not allow someone so rude to ruin my routine and bring me down to her level. I will use her comments as a will and drive to keep going.. Along with the few others who have said something to me... I hope to all of you who have experienced a similar situation that you just take strength from those experiences and know you are doing better for yourself... Best wishes everyone :w00t:

I have lost over 100 lbs and still have SOOOOO much more to go.. I think I am at a stand still right now and it is breaking my heart ha ha... I AM BETTER THEN THIS.. I can get past the mean plateau.. WISH ME LUCK :w00t: best wishes to everyone else.. you are doing great :w00t: