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They just have to stop showing the models with chocolate cake smashed all over their faces. Maybe some kale hanging out of the corner of their mouth or something.

Tenpoundbass says

I'm hungry because I eat, and eat because plus size models make it look Sexy

Then it's not your fault ... heck, you were probably born that way. Remember, there is ALWAYS an excuse, a reason why that ISN'T your fault. So pick up a fork and enjoy.

All I know is when they closed down my husband's office last January and we decided to start our own practice (keep in mind I had been a stay-at-home-mom for the last decade), the stress of wanting to succeed was the best diet pill available to man. This has been the hardest, scariest year of my life. I've done little else but work. We opened in May. By November we made enough money to pay for everything (the usual monthly expenses: house, cars, office lease, malpractice insurance, utilities for both home and office, groceries, medication for the dog, etc...). And starting in Jan., we'll be on several episodes of The Doctors... and we've been asked back to start filming another segment. We are booked going into February.

It would have been a little more satisfying to be able to get ahead in November (I have forgotten what savings are), but the very fact that we actually were able to do what we did in six months is in and of itself -- Amazing! Though it took everything we had. We are literally "all-in." Had this not worked out, we'd have been bankrupt.

My point is... I could have just gone into a shell... Become fat and whined about how unfair the world is... making excuses about how the whole world is against me... Maybe I could have even sucked off the system for a while. Of course, the liberals will say that I have some kind of "white advantage." Which shows how little they know about anything. When we started the practice with did it with almost no money. I didn't know anything about medical billing, FDA requirements, etc... We had been so caught off guard by the closure, we were completely unprepared to start our own business. To make matters worse, we had just bought our home six weeks before they announced the closure. We started our practice with $80k to our names. In the process we lost our health insurance (couldn't afford the premiums and pay a nurse to work at our office)... and there were weeks in there where we subsisted on cereal, mac n cheese, and hotdogs. I booked appointments straight through lunch because I needed to make money. Lunch seemed trivial in the face of foreclosure.

I am so sick and tired of hearing about other people's excuses. They are fat because of everyone else; they are poor because of everyone else; life sucks because of everyone else. Life may not be perfect, but there is a solution to every problem... and super busy, hard working people tend to have an easier time managing weight than the lazy people who prize food over anything else and believe that others should make their lives better for them.

Yup, starting your own business that keeps you toe tapping 24/24, with all the scarey risks, is the best antidote for liberal guilt trips. Especially when you realize that all the predators have you in their sights with a big red bullseye on your back.

turtledove says

It would have been a little more satisfying to be able to get ahead in November (I have forgotten what savings are), but the very fact that we actually were able to do what we did in six months is in and of itself -- Amazing!

Major Kudos. Ranks right up there with my moving away from someplace that I lived for over 50 years and searching the country (sans CA) for a job ... in the middle of a recession (does 2008 ring a bell for anyone?). I had every opportunity to fail, I watched my savings dwindle, dwindle and dwindle some more as I looked. I had to spend cash to fly places that I couldn't drive to. I spend nights in my truck because it was too expensive to stay in a fly-by-night motel. I skipped meals because I couldn't afford to spend the cash. I ended up, 5 months later, getting the position out of 500 people who had applied, and it paid more than the position that I'd been laid off from. You LEARN what you can do without and leave behind. Mucho congratulations and a very Merry Christmas to you. I love stories with happy endings and yours is one.