alpha femme wrote:my losses have slowed to a crawl, and i don't know if it's because my body is strongly objecting to the fact that i have lost the equivalent of a full-grown man. why the hell didn't it object to putting that much weight ON? stupid body.
Huh!!!!! Stupid bodies!!!
alpha femme wrote:i would also like to comment on a topic that has come up in a different thread. we are NOT the same people after massive weight loss...we DO become different people. hopefully, we become the best versions of ourselves possible.
I responded in another thread about being the "same" person no matter your size. What I was alluding to was the basic, fundamental character traits one exhibits over the course of their lifetime. I believe the thread in question concerned the topic of marital fidelity. IMHO, that is something that is ingrained into a person's psyche, with no regard to their external appearance. One may have different opportunities presented to them at varying weights, but if a person has it in them to be unfaithful, they will cheat at one hundred and twenty pounds or four hundred and twenty pounds -- y'know? That's all I was saying. I completely agree with your stance, Alex, about the impact that social interaction and environmental influences have on how a person wends their way through this world. Of course that stuff makes us act differently when we are viewed by others (and ourselves!) as "different" people on the outside. But your last line in the above quote says what I was trying to say: we may display different versions of ourselves, but the base "self" is the same.
...and BTW...I LOVE oatmeal.