I just need to vent. So... my nail lady went to her country for two months for vacation. She comes back with a gift for me as she always does. She is a sweetie and is always doing nice stuff like this for me. Well... she brings me a T-shirt. It's very nice. The only thing is.. .it's a size XXX. She said she wanted to "make sure it fit". I thanked her graciously for it. When I got home... her comment really bothered me. I am 14 months out and have only loss about 60 pounds but I think there is a big difference in where I have come from. I am still 25 pounds from goal. Then the devil got on my shoulder. Now I am wondering... if I have failed? Am I not working hard enough? Not eating enough of the right stuff? Did the doctor make the right decision making my tummy a little bigger than most? Does everyone still see me as the big person... to the point where I look like I wear a XXX? I have been having these thoughts all weekend to the point where I worked out like a mad woman this morning. Ugh!!!

Don't be too hard on yourself. I'll assume your nail tech is Asian. If so, they're usually really small and products outside of the U.S. generally run smaller! I would love to be at your weight right now. You may not be where you want to be, but you sure are not where you used to be....or maybe you would have been heavier. Give yourself the credit you deserve and keep up the good work!

I agree, you have made amazing progress. Don't let one nail tech sway you.

I would LOVE to be your weight right now.

Keep up the good work.

If you worry about what someone else thinks you look like then you be a basket case. All I am concerned with is getting to goal weight and to hell with what anyone else thinks but my surgeon. We didn't embark on this quest to be "Victoria Secret" models, we did it to get healthy, living longer & live free of the boundaries weight put on us. Use the gift as a over shirt when you go to the beach or pool???????????? Keep up the great work

I agree Asian sizes run tiny. My son's friend bought him a men's large shirt in Nepal. It fits him perfectly. My son is 5'6", and weighs 140. He wears a men's small here.

yeah cloths in foreign countries run smaller gennerally because the people are smaller. americans also do a thing called vanity sizing where a regular size out side the us is twice as big in side the us but is listed at the same size