Comments on: No A for effort

By: One in a Thousand: A Break Up Story «

One in a Thousand: A Break Up Story « — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:21:58 +0000

[...] Or course I didn’t have to, because the Leader and everybody else jumped in to do it for me, questioning her habits, her dedication, her commitment, as if all it took to lose weight on WW was to wish really hard that it be so. Believe and achieve. [...]

By: romi41

romi41 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:42:50 +0000

Hahaha…yes ANON, moms can be tough, but as long as I take her advice with a cup of a salt and a squinty eye, I’ll be alright ;-)

By: JAN

JAN — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 01:02:31 +0000

LOL! I swear! Rubber wheat bread! She was flopping it around when I walked out. My friend later told me she also had a rubber “serving” of orange juice, steak and peas! Because heaven knows we gotta control that pea intake! :-p

By: Meowser

Meowser — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:32:56 +0000

Rubber wheat bread? Seriously??!?

I’d have asked her to show me how to eat it!

By: JAN

JAN — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 00:30:53 +0000

I was totally shocked at the tone of voice, body language, and the looks the nutritionist was giving her. I was also angered that my friend was under all of this stress and pressure over something so trivial. She even pulled out rubber food and was like “This is what wheat bread looks like!” That was when I had to excuse myself. If there is a next time, I will throw the fit. I think sometimes it is better to misbehave a bit than to allow ignorance to survive. :-D Thanks for allowing me to share.

By: Meowser

Meowser — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:18:59 +0000

I think I’d have thrown the fit, JAN. I mean, nothing pisses me off more than being called a liar, and calling someone I care about a liar is a close second. Can you imagine someone with lung cancer who didn’t smoke being told by a health professional that they must be secretly sneaking cigarettes?

By: JAN

JAN — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:41:00 +0000

My dear friend, “Marcy” had to be admitted to the hospital last night for observation due to chest pains. She is already a heart patient and has had a bypass and a difibulator (SP?) installed. She does her best to follow her doctor’s orders. She never eats sweets (doesn’t care for them) and she makes very healthy meals, and she does her best to get as much exercise as her time schedule allows, but she has not been able to loose weight. Today, I was visiting her in the hospital when a nutritionist stopped by. She was young, slim and was quite pretty. She asked my friend about her diet and portion sizes, careful to add that hint of condencending in her voice. Then insisted that my friend was not being honest when she said that she never ate sweets. I had to leave the room or else I would have thrown an absolute fit. Why is it that we are not telling the truth or “just not trying” when we weigh more than they think is acceptable?

By: Anon

Anon — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 06:43:08 +0000

Awww, Romi! Moms can be the harshest critics, can’t they? :-/

I recently moved from the Midwest (where I’ve lived all my life) to the West Coast to start a job at a large software firm where most of my coworkers are both Indian and first-generation immigrants. It’s been interesting to me to see how different the attitudes I see represented are from the ones I saw back home. None of them have your mom’s attitude, though – maybe they’re here to get away from their own mothers? ;)

By: Romi

Romi — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:12:38 +0000

What a great blog to have stumbled upon :-) …The comment at the beginning about the mom made me laugh SOOO much!!…I see my mom a few times a month, and when I visited over the holidays, she narrowed her brow in disdain at my apparent weight-gain (alright fine, so I had put on 5 or 8…).

She then proceeded to tell me that I needed to lose TWENTY pounds to get back to where I was, otherwise no Indian man would take me in an arranged marriage (LOL…another story… ;-) )

So I thought hmmm…”Did you fail math mom? I gained EIGHT, where the heck did you get twenty from???….Oh, and by the way mom, I’m 26 years old, so you know, I think I can run my own life…”….(I suppose it doesn’t help to have a 5′9″ stick-thin older sister, but whatever, I kicked her butt and stole the “personality” genes ;-) )

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:06:54 +0000

Yeah, I’m sort of wondering at this point about whether these folks are real doctors. I can’t imagine a pathologist making any such remarks. Maybe med students with a particularly juvenile sense of humor?

This, however, will not prevent me from engaging in an internet flame war with them. At least until I see my doctor tomorrow. (I’m trying to find a way to work “Damn those munchies!” into my visit without convincing him that I’ve gone off the deep end from the stress.)