Insecurity and Over the Summer

Insecurity and weight loss are two bad combinations. Really, they are. Insecurity is the WRONG reason to lose weight. Health and happiness are GOOD reasons! Often, the this mistake happens: insecurity= drive for weight loss = weight loss = a happy, care free attitude = carelessness = regain and frustration maybe with some depression

Don't get me wrong, being secure is common when you are overweight, but get this my fellow weight losers.... people are insecure at a regular weight and when underweight! This ad is just a small example of why. I see people lose weight to fit in "regular sized people seats" or to impress a crush. They make extreme goals, like losing 20 pounds in a month! If you lose weight for only that reason, and if you get careless and don't realize the message, I am sure you will gain it back. Everybody has a little bit of insecurity, but the reason to lose it should be better than that. I wanted to lose weight before middle school started and even before I thought about that, but that wasn't my only reason. I need the better well being. I have done this before, like many people so don't feel bad.

Now let me continue from the regular sized people seats thing. I know some body (a fellow student) who is built tall and plus sized and where's woman's clothing just like me. Eventually she was fed up with her size. Her mother said lose 20 pounds before school starts. She felt insecure about having to maybe sit in a larger desk and chair separated seat. She did lose some weight, but with the motivation of her mom not herself, and with the drive of insecurity not better health. She still drinks six cans of soda a day. I now she'll gain it back, unless some how the message comes to her before she learns the hard way. I won't say anything, I want her to learn on her own. I don't fit in the non-separates comfortably, but I can fit in them. Though in the classrooms were they have bigger seats I sit in them, by choice. I don't care if 3 or 4 snobs stare at me. You and I both know what they were thinking. I just kept my eyes on my textbook and teacher with pride in myself. Eventually they stopped staring.

Also over the summer I wrote some posts here: summerweightchallenge.blogspot.com

I will write some more when I get time.

Yeah, that's a pic of me in the big person seat. Bad resolution, I know. Maybe I will post some more pictures of me with better quality later on.

P.S. By the way, those pj's a posted about in Febuary or March... they are really baggy and slip off my waist.