Comments | seeking_joely: my six hundred pound life

seeking_joely

my six hundred pound life

Feb 03, 2013 23:48

i've mentioned plenty of times in the past that i don't see myself as *one of those people you see on a TLC show*. however, i am. in fact i'm pretty sure they had a show with the same title as my blog post. yep. just checked my dvr and there it is. for some reason i can't bring myself to watch these episodes, even though they have been on ( Read more... )

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crystalheart February 4 2013, 07:02:02 UTC

I for one am looking forward to this new chapter in your life. You can do it!

seeking_joely February 5 2013, 04:46:18 UTC

thank you for your support. :)

punkyami_chan February 4 2013, 08:15:56 UTC

Been there. It's still weird to me now that at 250-272 lbs, I still see myself as that 440lb person. And it's maddening that I get treated as if I'm a "normal" person when I often was not treated that way at my highest weight. Kinda tells you what's wrong with our culture....But I totally remember and still do things to try and prevent embarrassment in public. I hate shopping in stores because I never seem to know what size I am. And the women's clothing industry doesn't help any. I can be a L, XL, 16, 18, 20 or a 22 depending on where I'm shopping. I hate buying food because I feel like people will see the big fat fatty eating and criticize me ( ... )

seeking_joely February 5 2013, 04:55:48 UTC

yes! that is one of the things that scares me about losing weigh. maybe subconciously it holds me back? i'm so weirded out by how i know people will treat me once i'm *normal* sized. like...i'm still going to be the same person, just smaller, but now i'm good enough for you to talk to and to treat like a human??? ugh ( ... )

punkyami_chan February 5 2013, 05:01:46 UTC

The girls I work with don't have that switch either. And these girls are all tiny to boot. So their petite frames cannot handle the extra pounds. They also have ridiculously high pain tolerances. To the point that one of them walked around with a broken foot and didn't know it for several days.

marci_ny February 4 2013, 17:29:16 UTC

You can absolutely do this!! I'm rooting for you!!!!!!!!!!!

seeking_joely February 5 2013, 04:56:34 UTC

thanks hun! how are you doing? i seriously have to catch up on everyone.

anonymous February 8 2013, 05:36:16 UTC

Your post makes me wonder if you have asked your doctor about a trial of Zoloft + diet for your condition.

danaewinters February 8 2013, 20:22:13 UTC

I know the feeling. I was just barely starting to feel the physical effects of my weight after passing 300 lbs, other than that just generalized "not fitting" feeling that seemed to happen everywhere I went. Ankles were just starting to swell - I was getting out of breath trying to stand up and sing for 3 hour shows - that kind of thing. When I got up to my highest of 357, I think I'd been in denial of the fact that I'd just kind of given up on the idea of doing it on my own, of getting to a healthy weight. But watching how my weight affected my parenting, and the habits my kids were picking up - well, that really did it. Now I'm about to get under the 300-mark, for the first time in over a decade, and it's both exciting and a little scary. Will I be happier because I won't have that nagging feeling of people judging me by my size, or will I be less happy because to the ones that knew me at 357, I'll just be "that girl who used to be fat", no matter how thin I get? I'm trying to get to a mindset where their judgement of me (or ( ... )