Kathy, I read Passing for Thin just before Peg did and I think it would be very helpful to most folks who have weight to lose, are in the process of losing or have already lost. There are things I don't respect about how Frances lost her weight, or about Frances as a person, and there were even aspects of the writing that I didn't like, but I felt that the content of her book was well worth the read...especially as it relates to the psychology of being heavy and how we are treated by society and how all our problems are definitely NOT solved just by becoming thin (she found that she just had a whole new set of problems when she got thin).
Aside from that, my week is going okay. Work-wise, I have been having a harried, busy time and kind of an attitude problem. But I had a good day yesterday in that I got two compliments at work (about my weight loss) from a coworker who has never mentioned it before and also got compliments at dinner last night with some old friends I hadn't seen in a long while. Though I haven't been losing lately (and have been really bummed about it), they all remarked on how great I looked, so it lifted my spirits a lot.
Peg, I've been told (back when I was still actively "looking" for a man) that it wouldn't happen while I was looking but only when I least expected it. Well, I stopped looking YEARS ago and it still hasn't happened! Granted, I live a pretty solitary life and I don't go out to bars or clubs anymore (plus my workplace is predominantly female) so there really aren't many opportunities for me to meet the kind of men that I'm interested in. But I figure if it is meant to be, it will happen. In the meantime, life goes on! I really question whether, at my age and all these years alone, I really could sustain a long-term relationship and especially a live-in one.
