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Emma: I'd like to renew my license.
DMV chickie: Sure. What's your address?
E: lists off address. I'd tell you, internet, but I don't want some stranger at my door.
DMV: Date of birth?
E: 16th of December, 19!! (It wasn't such a high age when this story takes place.)
DMV: Height?
E, sighing: 5'3"
DMV: Weight?
E: Do I have to tell you?
DMV: Yes.
E: It really needs to be on my license?
DMV: It does.
E: Do I have to tell you the truth?
DMV: No.
E: How about (names a nice low number). No, no one would ever believe that. How about we say (names another number, higher, but not totally unreasonable.)
DMV: OK
E: If only it were really so easy to lose weight.
The reason I tell you this long ago story (1997, to be exact) is because I need a new license. And my weight? It's holding me back from going. The original 1997 weight that I was so reluctant to share is now my dream weight.
People. I am FAT. I knew I was. I knew it. But yesterday I found out my BMI. And holy freaking Hannah. I knew it would be up there but I was shocked at just how high it was. I am a heart ataack waiting to happen.
It ends now. I called my friend Nancy and we are going to join the Y. Safety in numbers and all that. I am starting a weight loss blog where I may actually be brave enough to post my real weight. I want to document my journey from fat to not so fat (I`m being realistic...I`m never going to be skinny.) I just want to be able to say my weight without hanging my head in shame, I want to be able to play with my kids for a long time coming, I want to not always be covering bits and pieces during the oh so few intimate times in my life. Seriously, I wouldn`t want to have sex with me...what makes me think William would want to. (I know that`s a question...I`ve lost the use of my question mark. It`s coming up like this- É. Bloody new keyboard. I liked my old ucky one. Someone tells me how to fix this please!)
Well, now that I`ve just put way too much info about myself out there I`m off to drink my hundredth glass of water for the day.
27 January, 2008
A Conversation with the DMV chickie
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Congratulations on getting on track to make your body more healthy! Good luck with it! My mom just started Weight Watchers, and that is working for her. I worry that she's just doing the food part and not the exercise part, but I guess it's a start.
BTW, why do they want your weight on your license? We definitely don't do that in TN.
I am there with you! I need so much help. and NOW!!!! but no clue how...
Good luck Emma, you sound so positive, I know you can do it.
I just joined a gym too. I want to firm up, reduce stress, and just be healthier. I think joining with someone is a great way to start, so much less intimidating.
I think you northerners are just nuts! Weight on the driver's license? Not here in Texas!
Good luck, Emma. and as for covering the bits? Totally not necessary. Men do NOT see things like we do. I have a HUGE arse. My husband one day actually told me how cute it was. I asked him if he wanted to share the hallucinogenics he was obviously ingesting. He said, and I swear that this is true, that my hips were a little big but my butt was just so cute and little. Helloooooo?
I'm right there with you babe, we joined the Y last week, haven't been yet but at least we can go now.
Good luck, Emma.
Remember to start small, even a walk every day is something! Try not to go crazy with cutting calories, too, people think they can starve themselves and it doesn't work that way. One to two pounds a week is optimal.
Also, if you have junk food in the house, get rid of it.
I know you'll do great, you sound so determined!
Lisa
Like anyone would actually give their real weight! I'm sure some skinny 100 pound girl would say 90 pounds, because no one ever likes their number.
My BMI is ridiculous too. It used to always be in a healthy range. But now? I don't know what happened. I need to do something as well. But then I keep hoping to be pregnant so that I can put it off another 9 months.
Sigh.
Congratulations for taking that first step and good luck! All you have to do is do it for three weeks for it to become a habit!
We have weight on driver's License her in WA state. I think I told the truth last time - it hurt.
Tell me where the new weight loss blog is. I will tell my weight if you tell yours. Accountability is great motivation. I have been working on losing since November - I am not going to meet my goal for Feb 1st and I am bummed.
You can do it!!
oh, good for you, Em!!!! I am so proud of you!!!!
I will be rooting for you-- always!!!
We compared weights - do we need to compare BMIs now? Because mine is astronomical!!! Hitting the gym will do you good. It has me anyway. I've lost a little over 8 pounds the last three weeks and I promise you, I am not starving myself in the least.
And I hate to admit it, but I feel better. All those damn exercise junkies were right all along. Alas, my house still isn't clean. Waaaaaa
I will join in on your weight loss challenge. I need to lose a stone, myself.
Good Luck!!!
I really hope that once you do lose some weight, you'll start to see the gorgeous girl we all see!!!
(And, if it helps, my mother has recently gotten herself an online WLB - Weight Loss Buddy - and it's been helping her immensely! She actually found this chick online somehow... They email all the time and are 100% honest with each other. If you're interested, I'll ask my mom what site she joined to find her.)
I think the first time that you commented on my blog it was when I finally faced the fact that I am FAT!!! I joined WW and need to start doing some exercise.
Not to be too forward but I would love to meet you and maybe start walking....I live by WEM....look for me you won't miss my fat arse!
Good luck! If you don't mind I would like to follow your journey on your new blog.
I'd hate to have to put my weight on my drivers license!
Right there with you, Emma! I've started and restarted South Beach's freaking torturous diet more times than I can count.
Move here. We don't put that shit on our license's.
Congrats on making a decision to be healthier. Cause that is the bottom line. And as regards the whole wanting to have sex with you.. he is not physically perfect either!! And I have read that men are much easier on women in regards to their physique than the women are on themselves!
And they want our weight here in MD too!
I have about 6 weeks to get down to a smaller weight. I hate that I have to renew my license after Christmas. One year I was late getting mine renewed too. People were telling me I would have to write the test again. Luckily that wasn't the case. I am not sure how long after you have before having to redo the test but I would watch for that (because I probably wouldn't pass and would be sent for anger management classes). I wish you much success in you weight loss program.
But doesn't EVERYBODY have their real weight and then their 'drivers license weight'? At least in those nasty States where some smug official decided to make that a requirement - just for a laugh, like?
Good luck Emma:) I recently started WW and didn't lose a pound this week! Atleast I didn't gain. I really need to exercise, but we have no gyms in my dinky town and it's way too icy and cold to walk. I am not hardcore enough for that!! LOL!!
ok, seriously, your weight on your license? That just stinks. We do not do that.
weight loss - you know I started the weight loss blog - exercise and diet - move more, eat less. It works! Having to put it up on the 'net every week really keeps me accountable.
YOU CAN DO IT.
YOU ARE WORTH IT.
I haven't given my real weight in awhile and at the moment I need to change my drivers license to Alaska instead of oregon but I want to lose a little bit more weight so I don't look as cowish as I did on my oregon one.....totally lied on that one even by like 50 pounds but seriously I wasn't going to give the real one.
For years I'd been talking about getting into yoga but I never had the chance. Then last year my husband suddenly came home and said he'd signed me up for private lessons with a friend of his. I wanted to do it for the peace, the balance and the chance to tie my body into knots. What I didn't expect was to suddenly - plop plop plop - start shedding the pounds. I'm not just down to pre-pregnancy weight, I'm down to what I haven't weighed since I was 17! Do yoga - sounds like you could do with the calming breathing dealing with the snow if nothing else :)
You can do it, Emma! I have all kinds of faith in you!!!
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