I went to the clothing store to buy me a pair of pants yaterday. The one I was wearing was a size 46 waist. I went out of that store wearing a brand new size 44 waist pair of pants. It sounds trivial until it is understood that when I started to lose weight I was wearing a size52 waist size pair of pants. That means I have losy eight inches off of my waist. I wonder what eight inches of fat looks like. Actually I used to know! So I better be careful about what I wish for.......I might get it ......again! This is just short of the size of my waist prior to becoming obese due to the side effect of meds I was prescribed. I got off the meds and I started to lose weight. And I feel so much better physically also. And I can walk and go up stairs like nothing at all. This is crazy good! I still have weight to lose. But not like before it seems. People who judge those with obesity wiithout all the facts are pretty dumb. They think we all eat like pigsand deserve our problem. Medication side effects are far from their mind, or childhood trauma/trauma that people deal with by eating as oppossed to alcohol or drugs in excess, etcetra. So unless I have all the facts I hate engaging in judging others who are obese, because it is so much like making a diagnosis that only doctors are allowed to make. I was going to right this as a journal entry. But I thought of this group and decided to post it here. Life can be so COOL!