bluejeangirl76 wrote:Rhiannon wrote:bluejeangirl76 wrote:LOL, why are you apologizing? You know what I think of her. Not a good person. Not good at all.
Cuz that's just what I do.
And you know what I think of her and her situation with Borat. She totally deserves it at this point and should get no sympathy. She's obviously a sycophant who hangs on for the attention, crutch, pity parties, and such. She's had plenty of opportunities. Maybe if she'd get off her lardass, stop buying all those Marc Jacobs bags and invest some time into philanthropy instead of narcissism she'd find herself in a better place. But she's not caught in a vicious cycle, she IS the vicious cycle. So, yeah. F her.
To return this to the general vicinity of the topic at hand - vanity sizing - this chick is a good example of it. Buying 10s and 12s... her real size is 16. But so many times we were shopping and she was buying much smaller sizes. And that's what these clothiers do, especially in the current economy... they call a 16 a 12 and they sell more because "Omg, look I can wear a 12 now, I have lost 2 sizes, now I need all new clothes!!" and presto - profits are up.
That's good business tactics in my book. I always tell people, "Go by what you see in the mirror." People step on a scale and let the number tell them everything. If what I see in the mirror is good, I'm good. If I don't like it, I cut back on the amount of food I consume and take it easy on the beer for a week or two. I never weigh myself unless I'm at a doctor's office or I just get curious.
Conversely, people who sit there and "diet" and lose a bunch of water weight in the short run don't realize they still look like shit and will unless they build tone through exercising.
People on all ends of the spectrum would be far better off if they did an honest "mirror assessment" of themselves weekly instead of going by magical numbers on the scale or suddenly fitting into "smaller" sizes to convince them they are losing weight.
