Comments on: Weight Loss and Gender Differences http://inspiredthemovie.com/blog/2008/09/11/weight-loss-and-gender-differences/ Sun, 06 May 2012 22:53:52 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Kimberlie D http://inspiredthemovie.com/blog/2008/09/11/weight-loss-and-gender-differences/comment-page-1/#comment-5516 Kimberlie D Tue, 25 Nov 2008 01:50:35 +0000 http://inspiredthemovie.com/blog/2008/09/11/weight-loss-and-gender-differences/#comment-5516 This is GREAT. And soo true. Women are not the same creatures men are...so that perspective has to be adjusted for. But clearly, CLEARLY women need to be CHOOSEY with the company they keep. I think society has done a huge disservice to women in general; as a woman, and one who comes from a less than desirable background, we are almost BRED to be pleasers, which means we ARE NOT selective in who are friends are. Our "friends" are who we are told they can be; we are not respected or given the credit due us..we cannot imagine or realize our full potential because we are typically not given "permission" to see ourselves as THAT worthwhile..we are dispensible..there are many of us. We can conform and "obey" or be dismissed. These statements I have just made are such lies, yet we are fed them, and to a point brainwashed to believe them. We don't need to be like the saying "I am woman, hear me roar" but..we do need to change the mindset, change our behavior, change what we ACCEPT or should I say, SETTLE for, ...see ourselves as the gifts we are..with the value we TRULY have...and then we would STOP seeing the trend u mention... It's OK to choose...it's OK to have expectations and NOT settle...we should be respected, encouraged, loved, accepted, as anyone should. Someday, I hope that we are more on an equal emotional field..sadly, however...the reality is for now, THIS is where we are... This is GREAT. And soo true. Women are not the same creatures men are…so that perspective has to be adjusted for. But clearly, CLEARLY women need to be CHOOSEY with the company they keep. I think society has done a huge disservice to women in general; as a woman, and one who comes from a less than desirable background, we are almost BRED to be pleasers, which means we ARE NOT selective in who are friends are. Our “friends” are who we are told they can be; we are not respected or given the credit due us..we cannot imagine or realize our full potential because we are typically not given “permission” to see ourselves as THAT worthwhile..we are dispensible..there are many of us. We can conform and “obey” or be dismissed.
These statements I have just made are such lies, yet we are fed them, and to a point brainwashed to believe them. We don’t need to be like the saying “I am woman, hear me roar” but..we do need to change the mindset, change our behavior, change what we ACCEPT or should I say, SETTLE for, …see ourselves as the gifts we are..with the value we TRULY have…and then we would STOP seeing the trend u mention…
It’s OK to choose…it’s OK to have expectations and NOT settle…we should be respected, encouraged, loved, accepted, as anyone should.

Someday, I hope that we are more on an equal emotional field..sadly, however…the reality is for now, THIS is where we are…

]]> By: vickie http://inspiredthemovie.com/blog/2008/09/11/weight-loss-and-gender-differences/comment-page-1/#comment-3827 vickie Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:28:40 +0000 http://inspiredthemovie.com/blog/2008/09/11/weight-loss-and-gender-differences/#comment-3827 I linked to this posting. You said it well. I had just been noticing a trend in (little groups of bloggers) people stagnating in their get healthier journey and people moving forward in their get healthier journey, In fact I have a link for Codependency under one blog, so that I remember to take those words from that point of view and not let the words move over into my thinking - So I remember where the line is. I linked to this posting. You said it well.
I had just been noticing a trend in (little groups of bloggers)
people stagnating in their get healthier journey and
people moving forward in their get healthier journey,
In fact I have a link for Codependency under one blog,
so that I remember to take those words from that point of view
and not let the words move over into my thinking -
So I remember where the line is.

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