Wherein "Phat," according to "trusty" Urban Dictionary, either means 1) cool and/or 2) hot and tempting.

What part of your personality empowers you on your weight loss journey? If you'll excuse the outdated street lingo--tell me why you have a phat personality! Is it your unfailing sense of humor? Your enduring passion for keeping active through exercise or work? What about a wealth of compassion for others?

This is a challenge to engender more positivity today; to do something productive with introspection.

For me, I think it's pretty cool that I cunningly adapted to growing up with alcoholic parents. It's even more amazing that I was brave enough to haul my own butt to therapy when I was 19-21yrs old. Clearly, I have it in me to take care of myself, so today I remind myself to embrace this "phatness" and use it to take care of my body.

Please feel free to shamelessly use or completely drop the word "phat."

Wherein "Phat," according to "trusty" Urban Dictionary, either means 1) cool and/or 2) hot and tempting.

What part of your personality empowers you on your weight loss journey? If you'll excuse the outdated street lingo--tell me why you have a phat personality! Is it your unfailing sense of humor? Your enduring passion for keeping active through exercise or work? What about a wealth of compassion for others?

This is a challenge to engender more positivity today; to do something productive with introspection.

For me, I think it's pretty cool that I cunningly adapted to growing up with alcoholic parents. It's even more amazing that I was brave enough to haul my own butt to therapy when I was 19-21yrs old. Clearly, I have it in me to take care of myself, so today I remind myself to embrace this "phatness" and use it to take care of my body.

Please feel free to shamelessly use or completely drop the word "phat."

You are cool :smile: tommaney and as I've said before your "third eye" has much to do with it!

Major survival skills dealing with two alcoholic parents let alone one!!!! That is quite impressive:thumbs_up:

It is the shit as they say but the way you deal, I deal(t) and others deal(t) with having alcoholic parents is such an accomplishment and a credit to ourselves:thumbup:. If we "pat" ourselves on the back it's because we've finally come to terms of having to nurture ourselves because our parents were nursing the bottle and self medicating.

I loved my father although this was a major problem that affected the whole family but he was a brilliant man. Because of that he fathered 5 brilliant kids. Everyone has their PhD or their Masters or both or me her MRS. (worked and sent hubby of 27 years through college) but who knows I may have enough self esteem to get that AA one day!:redface: (I'm referring to associates degree). I chose to move out of a crazy house and work when I should have been finishing college. That was a coping mechanism that worked short term for me. Can't go back now!

The major coping mechanism my family members use is their sense of humor, which we all get from our paternal grandmother, the Irish side of the family. It has taken most of us through much pain. I use my sense of humor/sarcasm to get through most awkward situations and I suppose I attempt to use it when it comes to my personal wl journey especially after going to my surgeon's office every month or so and the scale is either moving at slow to dead snail speed. I'm not a super star in that area but I do exercise now which I've come to use also as a coping mechanism.

brandy II has left the building to be PHATABULOUS somewhere else:thumbup:

Edited June 21, 200818 yr by brandyII

I have a phat ass :redface: LOL

lol I do have a pretty phat personality about things. I get down for awhile about only losing a lb or not exercising but then I kick myself in the ass and eat better and work harder. I am my own worst critic and I push myself really hard sometimes probably too hard. But that's me I guess. I used to be just a lazy bum so pushing myself too hard is amazing lol.

Rock on, Froggi. The phatness to kick your own ass is stupendous! It'll be helpful now on your pre-op diet and later when you run into places like "bandster hell."