Anna Nicole Smith is dead

[Bikingmomof3]

You will get plenty of time to pull your grandchildren as soon as your back is taken care of. I am sorry it is taking so long for you to be attended to, it must be quite frustrating. You truly are an inspiration! Some day I hope to be able to ride as far as you do. Oh, when you do make that jersey, please post a picture of it. I saved nothing from my heavy days. Now I wish I would have saved something.

What surprises me is how people I *thought* were friends assumed my personality changed when I went from a 98 pound young lady (I know-gross-worst part I thought I was fat ) to a 215 pound mom. Suddenly I was treated differently by those who I thought *knew* me. I am back in size 6s again and have no desire to go any lower. Now I get "it is nice to have the "old" you back". What? *I* never went anywhere. The only thing that changed was my outward apperance. I just shake my head a pray I am teaching my boys to value others for who they are not what they look like.

[Pax]

I was waiting over a month to get in for gallbladder surgery and was terribly ill, dropping loads of weight, my skin was grey, my hair limp, my eyes looked hollowed...my co-workers would exclaim almost daily "wow, you've lost so much weight you look FANTASTIC".

[missymaya]

I faced the 'fat' problem but at a very young age. I was pretty overweight, wearing a size 14 at 7 years old but I was happy. I went to a very small school and it was pretty tolerable when it came to getting picked on. It was getting into high school where the self-image dropped from being picked on by a lot of other kids. Well, I didn't handle the weight issue well and lost 50 lbs by practically not eating and overexercising in one summer (too much weight looking back on it). I came back, tired, looking pretty ragged and all people could comment on was how I looked so great and lost so much weight while all I thought was about how hungry and tired and crappy I felt ontop of the negative self-image that didn't disappear with the lbs.
Of course, now Im at a much healthier weight and I eat well of course and exercise appropriately and I feel so much better along with a much better self-esteem but its taken a lot of time and some help to go along with it.