RANT - Hey jerk ass, It’s gonna take a while to lose a 122 pounds!

A fortune cookie I opened last week read as follows, “Demonstrate refinement in everything you do”. “Okay, whatever you say future-telling Chinese treat.” I’m a classy lady, and usually try to act in a refined composed manner, a lesson learned from my mother, and one which the cookie reinforced.

The past 13 months have been such an emotional journey, testing my will and character more than I could have ever imagined. For all the encouragement and support that I have found in family, close friends, acquaintances, drinking buddies, people who are essentially strangers (i.e, my nail lady and my cleaning lady both have complimented me on the weight loss) I still catch a rash of shit from someone in my family about my weight loss.

Let me clarify, for years (since I was nine years old) this person would constantly berate me about my weight. Pretty crazy because now I would love to be back at that 1989 weight, I digress. Even now with clear progress made, 81 pounds worth (just had to throw that in there) they still have comments... "if I wasn’t so stubborn and would listen to their advice, I could have lost XX more weight by now." "I just have to do things my way." "I don't listen." these are just a few of the insane comments that have been directed my way.

Are you effin kidding me?

Since I try to avoid confrontation and conflicts, I just let these comments go without saying anything, I'm a classy lady remember?

Show of hands, who knows someone who has lost over a hundred pounds, without the aid of surgery and kept it off !?! Go ahead think about it, I’ll wait. So what did you come up with? Nothing. Figures? Losing weight is hard, keeping it off is harder, so only a complete moron would try to crash diet their way to 122+ pound weight loss.

This isn’t my first attempt at weight loss, but as God as my witness I want to make it my last. I haven’t done this for anyone’s approval, nor do I want ridiculous weight loss and diet advice. After years of quick fixes I have decided to make a complete lifestyle change. So yeah, my weight loss may not be as fast as some people think it should be, but I don’t give a damn. I’m happy with my progress because I’m doing this for me.