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Sad to say, but I had fun talking about my man drama the last few days!

I haven’t put Monkey Boy in his place yet, but I will if I have to! 

I try my best not to have to use harsh words, but every once in a while…

My favorite incident happened at my twenty year reunion this summer.  A guy who I had a crush on in high school followed me around all night long.  I just wasn’t interested in him.  Yeah, part of it could have to do with the fact that he wasn’t interested in me back in the day.  And yeah, well, he had gained about 150 pounds.  And while he was a little on the thin side back in the day, he is not the necessary 7’8” that it would take to fill out this extra girth.

But that was the week after I got back from being on the Today Show and showing up at the reunion after losing 121 pounds.  I was just there to have fun!  I wanted to soak up every minute of it.  And I did!
 
But he tried everything to get my attention.  He even had the audacity to say, “You just think you’re too good for me, don’t you?”

When this didn’t work, he gave the mother of all bad pick-up lines, “I’ve tried everything.  What do I have to do?  Solicit you?”

So, clearly he had had coming when I slowly gave him a full body scan, rolled my eyes, and said with disgust, “I’m pretty sure you can’t afford it, but I KNOW you cannot survive it.”

What he failed to recognize was that I came back to that reunion a totally different person from the one he knew.

Like I’ve said before, fixing the outside comes with an added bonus…healing the inside…and finding worth in yourself.

If you haven’t made the changes yet, and you’re still letting people walk over you or say things like that to you, let me be the first to tell you: you are not a welcome mat, nor are you a door mat.

The only people you need in your life are the ones, who at the end of the day, add more than they take away.  And the more you surround yourself with the right kind of people, the closer and closer you get to your goal.

That man would have held me back.  And nobody can do that to me without my permission.

Permission not granted.

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