One compliment/comment my Weight Watchers leader gave to me years back (and part of why they trained me to be a leader myself) is that right from the first day I walked in to WW I was far more confident than the average person. Especially for someone who weighed what I weighed back then. She was right. Other people much smaller than me walked with their head down, dressed dumpy because they didn’t want to spend money on good clothes UNTIL they reached their goal weight, people who didn’t like themselves to begin with. I cheerfully dealt with my ups and down on the torture device called the scale and while I was usually in a sweatshirt as I went down in size I dressed to fit that size. I bought clothing that made me feel good at THAT size. And while I was confident I was under a false impression (this is where I bear my soul a bit here people) that my weight was why my marriage wasn’t working. Deep down I knew this wasn’t the case but I grasped to that idea because it was … [Read more...]