oh I love you all so much.......you all give me so many great laughs every day......your friendship and mirth is priceless to me!

thank you, thank you for lifting my days! ok...... enough getting mushy for me this morning

Yes Lidian, welcome - nice to meet you

I echo all your comments, the cameras, the co-workers, all of it.

My ex-BF's mother is a wonderful woman and she is over 60 now and beautiful and probably weighs no more than 130 on her highest weight day and never gained a pound until after menopause - she was thin her whole life... I saw her a few years ago and she was complaining that she had gone from a size 2 to a size 4 - now I know it's all relative......but what I would give for that problem


Terri

Ellis, I have all those clothes too and you know what - we ARE going to wear them again! In fact, I really wish I had saved my jeans from when I was 127 lbs (size 8 I think?) but they seemed so tiny to me that they are long gone. Maybe I will meet up with them again in a thrift store (cuz that is where they ended up) and in a burst of kismet, I will buy them back. Some book or magazine was going on about getting rid of all the smaller stuff but I do think it's good to have it. They sort of give me hope if I think positively!

My MIL (whom I love dearly) has always been quite thin, and the last time we saw them the photos were very depressing, her looking fine, all others fine and me looking like someone had flipped a little valve on the side of me and started filling me with air (would that one could deflate as easily!). I had hoped no one would notice but I guess they must have.

Does anyone else find that when they look in the mirror it doesn't look so bad, and then in a photo you look really big? I have the same reaction the other way too. Like I think I am bigger when I have lost weight. I am looking, really! I just don't seem to be able to SEE myself accurately.

I am getting rid of some of my very big clothes. I gave some big T shirts to DH who is 134 lbs and 5'9" and never says no to a nice piece of baklava!

Viriginia, I laughed when I read your post cuz I think that too! I used to be able to look straight down and not see my stomach sticking out - I could see the front of down there if you know what I mean. And I keep looking forward to that again! LOL

Have a great day and hi to everyone! Thanks for the welcome - this is a great group.

Lidian

Terrigrrrrl, we love you, too!!

Lidian, don't worry... I used to weigh 128 (was running regularly, had a cute, fit, boyish figure and thought I was FAT!!), and I've still got about a dozen pair of jeans. Let me know when you get down and we'll share.

Oh yeah.... the mirror thing. I can look GREAT when I'm standing ramrod straight before a mirror with everything in place and adjusted. I don't realize that as soon as I start moving, things start riding up over my big butt, my shoulders slump a little making me look matronly, and my head drops, revealing that I have, not one chin, but three!!

I see it in photos and when I'm walking by a store window. Scares the **** out of me.

I started getting heavy when I was a pre-pubecent, so I don't really know how small I can be, or what weight I can get down to. I am small framed, and only 5'5" tall so who knows? I do know that my mom who has a large frame measured 35-26-26 when she was at her best weight, and everyone says that your family is the best guage, so we'll see.

Oh well, Velvet, the family - the genes...on my father's side all the women are really short, very very heavy and have a very low centre of gravity. So there's all that making things terrific. My mom was tall and thin most of her life, then put on weight around the middle - but no one ever noticed because of her height and also from the waist up she was a skinny gorgeous creature.

I inherited my body type, of course, from my father!

That was the first smilie I have ever used! Cuz what else can I do but smile about them big bones and short stature of mine?

My DH inherited thinness, of course, on both sides of his family. Lucky old thing. Of course as a man he can eat an entire baked Alaska washed down with a bucket of fried dough and not gain an ounce. So far my two girls are OK, and don't have the food issues I have had since I was a little kid (food being a big stressful issue all through my childhood, for both parents and for me - I'm an only, by the way).

Now I have smilied at last and by gum I am going to again!



Lidian

Hi Lidian!! Me too with the short and heavy!! AND the thin husband. One good thing about the low center of gravity....When you do a hip swing at those tall thin people they go over like a bowling pin!!!