tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14310824.post2330887904120836127..comments2024-01-12T04:51:30.233-05:00Comments on Peggy Payne's Boldness Blog: Oprah and Her Weight (and mine)Peggy Paynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14504076672775821088noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14310824.post-56751393827381822732008-12-12T12:13:00.000-05:002008-12-12T12:13:00.000-05:00Oh, I agree, Pamela. I didn't see her original co...Oh, I agree, Pamela. <BR/><BR/>I didn't see her original comments, just an item saying she'd announced her poundage, which I saw as a sort of freeing thing, take-it-or-leave it, though I know she didn't say that.<BR/><BR/>My thoughts about OA have nothing to do with fat or thin, but about getting over being crazed by food. That preoccupation is a miserable state of mind and affects everything Peggy Paynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14504076672775821088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14310824.post-15423399328369235742008-12-11T19:04:00.000-05:002008-12-11T19:04:00.000-05:00Oh, I don't know Peggy - I thought Oprah was beati...Oh, I don't know Peggy - I thought Oprah was beating herself up about it - which can't be good. I mean there she was to receive a most powerful woman in Show Biz award and she was explaining that her Donna Karan dress disguised extra stuff! <BR/><BR/>Really. She looked great. She runs a multi-million $ media empire and heavens knows where she had the time/energy to get on all those other pamelahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06209495011702893392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14310824.post-38362632775118377082008-12-11T11:21:00.000-05:002008-12-11T11:21:00.000-05:00I think most American women wrestle with this, and...I think most American women wrestle with this, and there are a lot of different ways to do it.<BR/><BR/>Mamie, I have a friend who weighs at her doc's office but faces away from the scale and instructs the nurse not to utter a word -- or number. <BR/><BR/>I weigh every morning, too, K.B., which isn't recommended for food crazies. But I find it helps me, since I'm not good at reading the image Peggy Paynehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14504076672775821088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14310824.post-87439203349845211122008-12-11T11:05:00.000-05:002008-12-11T11:05:00.000-05:00Weight and self-image -- hugely dangerous, equilib...Weight and self-image -- hugely dangerous, equilibrium-threatening bits of territory. Why do we feel bad about ourselves if we're overweight? What does it mean, what are the ramifications that we're overweight? Why are we overweight? Why do we have a resistance inside ourselves to losing weight? Do numbers on a scale count if we still weigh that much whether we know the numbers or not? WhatUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08453685534547547051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14310824.post-37766407284695785122008-12-11T10:25:00.000-05:002008-12-11T10:25:00.000-05:00All my life I have looked thinner than my actual w...All my life I have looked thinner than my actual weight. Especially now, since quitting smoking and adding a few pounds, I hate to say how much I weigh. <BR/><BR/>I have recently started going to the gym. The first time I went, with my husband in tow to help me with the machines, he said I had to weigh first. I almost left the gym, but said (as I say in all the doctors' offices) that I would Mamiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04702758010419552137noreply@blogger.com