Motivation

RANTING BURNS CALORIES!

This is an open, ongoing, support-encourage-motivational-RANTING thread. Feel free to skip to the end, or spend days reading through all of this ...

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I have decided that "Diet" is a 4-letter word.

I find myself muttering and uttering the word around my house these days with loathing and vehemence previously reserved only for comments directed toward liberal politicians. In fact, I seem to be talking to myself a lot more these days .... sort of a running, sarcastic commentary on all the foods I can't eat, or on various other related topics. I wonder if there is a link between calorie-deprivation and Tourettes Syndrome? Grrrrrrrrr.....

I am now on Day 8 of the dreaded D-word. This is already the longest period of time that I have ever successfully remained on a diet. And I seem to be growing grouchier and feistier each day..... at least when I am alone and no one is around to hear my running rants. (My wonderful DH has heard some of my more memorable rants on the subject of broccolli and reports that I am hysterically funny when I am hungry!) I am counting carbs. I am counting calories. I am counting fat grams. Sheesh ... now my math anxiety is about to kick-in!

Mini Rant #1 .... what masochist decided that the serving size of cereal was anything less than 2 cups? Have you ever measured out 2/3 a cup of cereal? Or even a full cup? And placed it in a bowl? Those few little flakes and pieces just sit forlornly at the bottom of the bowl, shivering and lonely, even when we dribble on a few meager droplets of skim milk! Sheesh. Well, I can tell you that there is simply no way that my oversized body is going to be happy with that tiny amount of cereal ... so I have been eating TWO servings for breakfast. SIGH. And while the side of the box says that I can supplement the cereal with some fruit, they probably don't mean eat 45 cherries with your cereal -- much less 1/2 a watermelon, huh?

Mini Rant #2 .... Things NOT to say to someone who has told you that they have just started on a diet:

1.Good, you sure needed it.
2. It's about time.
3. Really? It doesn't look like it.
4. Again? Haven't we heard this before?
5. Gosh, how much weight do you need to lose?
6. What do you weigh? I've always wondered.
7. I never need to diet, I have a fast metabolism.
8. Really? I can eat all I want and never gain weight.
9. Is THAT why you are so grouchy?
10. I sure hope you plan to exercise a lot more.

AAAUGGH! All of these responses are just the thing to make me even grouchier .... so just smile and say something encouraging and supportive, ok? I will let you know how it is going.

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=^..^=  Molly 

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Lane Bryant (please don't sue me!) uses those skinny mannequins in their stores therefore have to pin the clothes back super tight to fit them. 

They do this in all the stores and it's so awful! They have a size 2 (and who can where that?) on a mannequin, pinned back! because it's still too big!  Argggg....and the industry thinks that's the idea of beauty?!

You all have me chuckling as I read your rants, nodding in agreement to each and every one! I must admit that a FEW large size clothing companies seem to have Plus-sized models, but most don't .... and I share your frustration.  What I really hate are plus sized outfits that seemed to have been designed by someone who just said "Make everything bigger" .... and I end up with sleeves as wide as pant legs and necklines that drop to my navel. Hello??? We don't all have huge chests, clothing people!!!  AAArrrrgggghhh!

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=^..^= MOLLY  (are you drinking enough water?)

I just have to say...

this is the funniest freakin' thread I have come across!

Thank you for the laughs! 

peace & *hugs* & luv

      ~Vicki

 

What ever happened to pants/jeans that actually go to your waist? My "extras" used to be just fine tucked away behind firm demin. Now it just hangs over. I know they have a phrase for this.."muffin top". But mine is more like a melted sundae!

Ok... I must join in this particular rant!  Clothing and the purchase thereof is probably my biggest peeve.  Now, once upon a time, I was a slender young woman, with really long legs.  So, buying pants was hard enough.

Then, I became fat.  Suddenly, the clothing industry decided that I was not tall anymore.  Apparently it is against the rules to be both tall and fat at the same time??!!  Oh, not to mention that "talls" haven't been tall every anyway.  Here's the challenge.  Try finding a size 20 or higher pair of pants with a 33" or longer inseam.  Go ahead... oh... and they shouldn't cost $90 either.  Good luck with that!!

Ahhh... and then we move to the top.  I know for a fact that there are young women who are heavy.  And yes, we all would like to look fashionable.  But, could we possibly try making clothes that actually look decent on a heavier woman, instead of just adding material to a shirt that only looks attractive in a size 0?

clothing....bleah. I know what you mean vstar!  I do NOT have the boobs to go into plus size shirts!  I got the hips and the thighs and the arms, but not the boobs.  I am left with tight fitting clothes that fit my chest... making me look fatter, or normal fitting clothes that hang loose on my chest, making me look fatter, or a push up bra that digs into me and feels weird. <screams at entire fashion industry>

Okay - I want to know where you all are finding shirts for big chests.  I have a large chest and can't fit in anything unless it literally tents the rest of me.   And the styles that are out there now - no way can I get into those things.  I get so frustrated seraching for shirts.  Oh and bathing suits, what's with plus size suits only coming with C cup bras inside????  'Til I get one that fits on top, I could put two of each leg in the bottom, and they hang to my knees!!!

oh, and a special evil shout out to old navy plus sizes that have me wearing a freakin 3x when i wear a dainty 20w at L.B. or an 18w at Avenue.  clothes suck.... maybe i'll go naked ;)

i am big chested also. please tell me why big bras can't be cute. big breasts are supose to be sexy...or is that now out of style? i don't want an old fashion, huge strapped, plain white bra! i need some variety! do small breasts call for more decoration, while mine need to be down played? (not meant to offend anyone, just a rant, i need new bras!) lol.

** giggling **

Clothes shopping is SUCH a nerve-wracking, rant-producing experience that is HAS to burn a gazillion calories, right? And why oh why is the don't-wear-horizontal stripes rules being ignored by the larger size fashion industry!?!?! Sheesh .... the last thing I need is to look wider across my mid-section! AAAURRRGGH! hee hee hee

Bras ... don't get me started! (Sorry, male ranters .... just cover your eyes, ok?)

I think I am the only really fat person out there who wears an A-cup ... but I do. OK, I can wear a B ... but barely. So, I do NOT NOT NOT want an underwire digging into me. Do you think I can buy a bra large enough for my round back with an A cup? Nope. A B cup? Nope. If I am lucky .... I am only stuck with a C cup .... and 99 times out of 100 there is an underwire.... OUCH! So, I ended up wearing the few boring white, getting-threadbare sports bras I found years ago at the Avenue .... when I even bother to wear a bra (which is not very often any more.... did I mention I am flat-chested?)

*** Our few male ranters may now resume reading my post! **

Keep up the great rants, peeps!

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=^..^=  MOLLY (a rant a day keeps the grouchies away!)

OH OH OH!!!!  Me me!!!  In the name of everything that is good on this earth...WHY must our bra's stab the heck out of us???  Seriously ya'll!!  Have you EVER met a woman who benefited from an underwire????

Now, I was, at my largest, not so long ago... a DD... I am now slowly oozing out of my D's in the direction of a C.  Can't say that I'm happy about it... but... I'm not unhappy either.  And still I can't find a dadblasting bra that isn't carrying a concealed weapon!

I'd say down with bras... but honestly, I'd have to lift said appendages to scratch my knees if I didn't wear one.  However, I think that the inventor of the underwire should be forced to wear one that is two sizes too small and broken for about a week straight.

You people are killing me here!!!  Bras are something I can definitely rant about.  At my lowest weight (165 lbs.  I was still a DD).  While pregnant I blew up to an H - try finding bras for that!!!  Right now I'm back to a DDD and still have to special order bras.  I am longing for the day I can walk into a store and buy one.  Anyway, when I try to find plus size bras that are cute they don't give me any support.  I want cute and functional.  Is that impossible????  Any seamstresses out there?  Maybe you can design a cute, comfortable, and functional big girl bra. 

I just had to write and tell you all how much I have enjoyed your rants, they really make my day and encourage me to go on. Thank you.

Carol

I heard the cutest about bra's over the weekend. My friend said she was wearing her "self-esteem" bra.....as it pushed up her boobs, her self-esteem rose. When not wearing that bra, her self -esteem fell to her knees! LOL

Grrrrrrrrrr.

I hate my scale. Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate Hate. AAAAUUUURRRGGGHHHH!

According to my scale (did I mention I hate it?) -- I've managed to gain 3 pounds since yesterday. Rather amazing, since I only ate 1400 darn calories yesterday! AAAAUUUUGGGHHHH! And all that water I drank yesterday, like a good girl? I think it is ALL STILL INSIDE ME!!!!!!  (Note to self: Do not weight yourself on any day but Mondays or you will go insane, trust me) 

(sigh)  Either the scale was wrong yesterday (I did best 2 of 3 for the weight I charted), the scale is wrong today (I did best 89 out of 100), or the Newtonian laws of physics have somehow been mutatedly altered in the state of California -- no doubt caused by aliens causing a shift in the tectonic plates and foreshadowing a massive impending earthquake as well as my inexplicable three pound weight gain. (Note to self: stop watching cheesy B disaster movies on the Sci Fi channel)

I am a week out from my period .... could this be some weird, hormone-caused water retention? I did drink LOTS and LOTS of water yesterday .... and not one single diet soda (I usually have 2-3) .... so is THIS what "fully hydrated" looks like?!?!?!? EEEEEEK! EEEEEEK! EEEEEEEEEK!

I hate my scale. Damn space aliens.

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=^..^= MOLLY (Danger: Woman Ranting)

 

Hmmm...DH out of town, and you found the hidden scale????

Now why do you do that to yourself, Molly???

Don't we all have a love/hate relationship with those darned number-spuing mechanical devices?? I have two of them in the house...who the heck needs TWO scales. Well, of course, who can believe just one such monster, after all?

And can they be trusted when the scale in the doctor's office/gym gives a different number???

OK, here's my pledge: I will only weigh on Fridays, only on one scale and only one reading. I WILL NOT be unnerved by what the *&%$#* number says! I AM NOT a number, I am a person!

Anyone want to join that pledge, anyone at all???!!!???

"My" scale is in the ladies' dressing room at the gym which is seriously cramping my "weighing-in" style...I'm too shy to weigh naked, which I would prefer. So, I have developed a slight case of OCD to the extent that I must wear the exact same clothes, shoes and socks on weigh-in day in order to be sure the evil scale doesn't "cheat" me! I can't swear at the scale there either because I don't want to shock my fellow exercisers...although I'm sure that a sizable (no pun intended!) number of them would totally understand!

JJ :-)

It tookme about an hour to really.. READ this post... An hour of laughing my RUMP off literally!!! must have burned 100 + calories.... HILARIOUS LADIES!!!! Time for me to leave work now and head to the gym.. WOOHOO!!

Here's my rant!  Yesterday I went out walk/jogging (or wogging as it's called I found out) at lunch.  I work on a Navy base and they have 2 different paths along the road in the shoulder area.  The first one is the bike path (closest to the cars since they're faster I guess) and then the walking path.  Now each is a reasonable width of probably 5 feet wide so it's like walk path/bike path/lane 1/lane2/bike path/walk path.  You catch my drift.  So yesterday I was wogging along with my ipod blaring and I notice cars completely crossing into the other lane next to me!!  Mind you, I'm already on the outside of my lane to let runners run on my left in between the walk/bike paths.  So technically I'm already 8 feet away from these cars and they still feel the need to swerve into the other lane (pending no oncoming traffic mind you) to avoid hitting me!  A small swerve is courtesy and still even that is silly because I'm so far away but IN the other lane?!  COME ON, I'm not THAT fat!!!

Abbs.... I am certain they weren't avoiding you.  They probably just thought they were being nice!

However, on that same note.  We recently moved to the island of Guam.  For those unfamiliar, it is south of Japan, etc.  The local people are short, dark and yet rather round so that's not so bad.  However, there is also a large Filipino population and a HUGE amount of Japanese tourists.  These are very small people.

Now, I, on the other hand am 6' tall... very white... and not yet skinny.  I swear... I can't walk down the same sidewalk with these little people without them running in terror... or at least looking in terror!!  What am I, Godzilla?????