work flew by, even with that extra hour because i started early. everyone missed me and came by to make sure i knew it (even the president and human resources manager came to welcome me back!). i stopped by the doctor’s office to get the official all-clear. she was pleasantly surprised at how quickly i mended. “you’re a fast healer!” she proclaimed as i showed her how i could touch my toes again. upon arriving home, my mailbox was stuffed with envelopes. my compensation cheque for the seven days off work was in there! i think i could get to like receiving benefits this way! much to my delight, i discovered one of my credit cards has a seventy-dollar credit balance. yay! seventy free bucks i can spend! oh, and my friend jeremy said, after looking at the picture i posted yesterday, that it was “very, very cute”. i’m also going out for chinese food dinner with my dad & step-uncles tonight.
of course, all this good comes with a little bad… while waiting in the little examination room for the doctor, i made the mistake of stepping on the scale. it’s official: i’m fatter than i’ve ever been in my entire life! feel free to load the comments with lots “hey tub-o!”, “lardass” and “fatso” comments. no, i’m not kidding. the theory behind the request is that maybe, if my knowing how horribly obese i am isn’t enough to make me do what i need to do to slim down, having my friends & readers call me names will. i’m just really glad i had a super-healthful veggie lunch today to assuage some of my guilt.
i knew i shouldn’t have eaten those oreos.
Well, while calling you names might be fun, I think that it would be misguided motivation. You should want to lose weight for the health benefits, not to change the way people view you. Keep yer chin up… yer beautiful in any shape or form.
numbers are so misleading though. you should base stuff on how you feel, not on the number on a scale.
One thing’s for sure; you’re not fat. Not at all. If you want to lose weight, that’s fine, but don’t feel like you have to be all beholden to a scale over a couple of Oreos. There are far worse things than being overweight. Besides, I’m pretty sure all those “weight charts” are just a bone thrown to the diet industry.
you know what, i agree with al. if you want to lose weight i think you should do so from the standpoint of health. you ARE beautiful the way you are, regardless of what you think. anyway, i don’t think there’s anything ugly about not being skinny. there are plenty of beautiful people who are not thin (my boyfriend being one of them :)
i just think that the term “overweight” should never apply to appearance. overweight doesn’t mean you’re too fat to be beautiful. overweight might mean that there are dangers to your health. if that is the case, losing weight may be an important goal. maybe you should see a doctor of some sort and ask her if your weight could be a health problem and, if so, how you can healthfully go about changing that? that might give you some peace of mind, or at least a starting place.
[/my three-and-a-half cents]
you’re beautiful, you big dork. i know, i’ve been saying that since i started reading this page, but it only matters when boys say it. unfortunately, i’m the same way, so i’m not offended. i’m in the mood to call people nasty names today, but i think i’ll hold off til somebody pisses me off. dork. except that one.
Based on yesterday’s picture, I must concur with redsugar’s comment … except for the dork part. ;)
Beautiful doesn’t cover it! I know Heather as well as a person online can know someone after six months or more, and I can safely say that she’s all that and more!
Happy 1000th post. ;)
Want to know the most depressing statistic I came across lately? In people who’ve crossed into the “morbidly obese” range based on BMI (ugh, and I have. Couldn’t they jsut call it “badly obese” or something – it sounds so…terminal!), dieting and exercising to lose weight has a…drum roll… 3% success rate (w/in a few years, the weight isn’t still off).
Pass those Oreos! ;)
I’ll have whatever Oreos you’re not having. :)
You are all fat