Whenever I used to complain about, say for instance; my age, my mother would reply "It all depends on what side of 50 you're looking at it from. Your age looks pretty good to me!" Same with weight. By the way--It's never a good idea to complain about your weight to someone who clearly weighs more than you do. It's just not good form and it likely makes the other person feel bad.
This morning I stepped on the scale and saw this.

And because I usually have the memory of a steel trap, it reminded me of this post from 8 years ago. Here--I'll put the pic but I still recommend reading that post.

I really REALLY did beat myself up in that post. For getting to be that heavy.
Now, the funny thing is, the "It's all relative" part of my story, is that 8 years ago I just about thought I deserved to be shot for weighing that much. This morning when I stepped on the scale and saw that number I ran and grabbed the camera and then did a happy dance. (Yeah. Nekkid. Probably wasn't a pretty sight.) To illustrate another way--when I told my daughter Melissa last week, "I'm in the 160s now!" she thought maybe it was a trap and obviously didn't know how to respond...."uuhhh. Is that a good thing?" lol. Ever the diplomat.
And the stupid thing is HOW MUCH TIME I've wasted over the past 10 years thinking about and talking about and losing and gaining my weight.
This is really personal stuff. I was very nearly perfect for so long (of course I never knew it then) that I just took it all for granted. It's super hard to admit that I am in fact way less than the social ideal of perfect. It's just so easy to hide behind this computer screen with friends and acquaintances who haven't seen me for a long time, if ever. BUT I do know that a LOT of good people who may be reading this could use a little "You can DO it!" nudge, or a reminder that "It could be worse!" or whatever you want to make of this post. So there ya go. :-)
(PS for whoever wants to know; I'm in the process of taking off a total of 50 pounds using Medifast. It's going really well and I plan to reach my goal in March.)