The WORST Reason to Lose Weight EVER-
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| Tue, 03-02-2004 - 2:31pm |
Next Monday my husband's exwife leaves for prison boot camp. For the next 4 months she will be exercising ALOT and eating correct food etc. Which means, that her 10 lbs heavier than me figure is gonna get harder, and leaner, and I can't stand it. So, I have decided that cramps or pain or iron deficiency or not, I HAVE to get back on track because I am NOT going to let her come home from being incarcerated and look better than me. I mentioned this to Rob, and he laughed. When he realized I was serious he hugged me and said she could weigh 120 lbs and still not hold a candle to me no matter what. Great sap, sweety, but I want to make sure I am not as lumpy when she comes home. I am naturally a competitive person, but I can usually make sane concessions. This time I can't. In the long run she's benefitting from her mistakes, and that's great as long as she learns her lesson. But part of her learning her lesson is NOT going to be wearing smaller jeans than me come summer.
So, I am petty. I can handle it. Had to share because I am going to need LOTSA support to make sure I can keep at it and succeed.
Hugs to all.

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I am kind of the same way. All of my SO's previous girlfriends are skinnier and prettier than me IMO. The worst part is that some of them I have to see a lot because they are within his group of friends still and all of his friends girlfriends are skinny so I know that is part of my motivation. I dont want to be the fat chick when we go out anymore.
Okay this might sound really stupid, but is this incarceration actually imposed by a judge or is this one of those weird radical weight loss camp type things? I assume since you said shes going to benefit from her mistakes thats its actually an imposed sentence, but I thought I'd ask LOL.
She got arrested selling drugs in a federal housing area. It's a class X felony- her husband got 6 years- but because it's the first time she's been *caught* doing something stupid and illegal she gets a lighter sentence.
Kerry
So I can relate =)
Bren
I know how you feel too. I recently found a pic of my b/f's ex.(Ok so I wasn't supposed to be where I found it, but he shouldn't have told me he had pics of her...shhh..) She's all of about 90 lbs and gorgeous! So I'm like what the heck, how'd he go from that to this! He says I'm beautiful but I wouldn't hurt to be MORE beautiful than HER! :D
So I keep a mental pic of her and a mental pic of me in a swimsuit in my mind and it really gives me some mojo to work harder. I wanna look better than her!
Kick booty Mel! You can do it!!
Jessica
You go girl!! We'll be here to help push you to the finish line!
My dbf's sister-in-law is pretty and skinny but dumb as a stick. Everyone in that family agrees that she did not have the maternal instinct and her husband has had to be the "wife" while she spends money and hangs with her friends.
Dbf's ex-wife was also pretty and skinny too. But she was very mean, cruel and backstabbing to dbf while they were married. She left him because she found someone who made more money than he did and had a bigger and better house. She was a real winner.
Me...well, I'm "smart & intelligent and I have a pretty face" (that's what I've heard from that family NOT from dbf...he thinks I'm beautiful no matter what size I am). I'm sick of *JUST* having a pretty face!!
We all need to create some sort of competition for ourselves.
We're here for you, Mel!! You're not alone!
~Dana
I LOVE this board and I believe the support here is more valuable than any I could get from anywhere else in the world. My best non-online friend is 120 lbs and 5'1". Talking to her about weight loss is just....UGH! I spend the whole conversation wanting to make her eat a drumstick or something.
I WILL succeed at this, and I think competing with her (even though she doesn't know it- LOL) is a good thing for me. It's like holding up a mental image of her and saying THIS is exactly the opposite of everything I want for myself. THIS is the Anti-Mel. And I am NOT going to have anything in common with it, er, HER. I sometimes need the mental shake and wake up call, and this is definitely it for me.
Hugs to everyone, and I KNOW all of us are going to succeed in the long run. We have great friends and great plans, and wonderful goals. We can all do it!!!
~~Linda
~~Linda
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