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| this is how i look when grumpy! haha |
So a week or so ago DH, DD17 and I finally got our passports. (Not new passports - passports! We've never had them - well DH had them as a kid!) Not that we have plans for some faraway trip (that would be nice though!) but DD is going on a service trip with our church Youth Group on the March break, so she needed one, and we decided that we'd better get ours too. Even if we'd like to cross the Canada/US border, a passport is needed. Sometimes DH has opportunities to go various places for work, but not having a passport has stopped him. But that's not what this post is about...
I filled out the applications for both passports (mine & DH's) - and they ask for your weight. WELL, here in Ontario, they don't even ask for your weight on your driver's license or health card, so this was new for me. Of course I didn't want to tell the truth (I don't recommend lying)...and I lied. I even justified my lying by saying "everyone always tells me that I don't look what I weigh, so what will they know?" yadayada "I'm sure I'm not the only one who lies on these forms!" (this was the argument in my head - I didn't tell anyone that I lied. When I came home from the Passport Office, I began to do the math. I'd put 185 lbs. on the Passport - still not a great weight for me, but then I figured out where I was weight-wise and the 185 lbs. It was a difference of 8 lbs! It honestly felt like a huge difference in my head!
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| it was neat to look back at DH's old passport photos! (age 6 and 15) |
I'M NOT THAT FAR AWAY!
So I don't recommend lying on anything (even if it gives you amazing revelations!) - but I am glad that this lie gave me some perspective! (BTW, I searched for a comic that DH has seen that had two women sitting in an airplane asking "if everyone lied on their passports like we did, do you think this plane will go down?" ... haha - couldn't find it though!
HAVE YOU EVER LIED ON IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS?
✿Onward & Downward!✿~Dawn
At-home WI: 195.8
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That's it, I'm breaking all fellowship with you. Haha. I *hate* being asked my weight - ugh. I have also been in the 190s for way too long. It stinks, but it's like I start feeling happy when I see low-190s and then live it up and get right back to the high 190s. Double Ugh! LOL We will get there! Funny that 8 lbs seemed so wonderful to you. I feel the same way, though. I keep finding myself saying "If I could just weigh 189.5 or 185!, I'd feel so much better!"
Lying on a government form? omg, you are soooo going to jail lol :)
I wonder if my passport has my weight and, if so, what I have on there! When I renewed my license last May I only lied by a couple of pounds:)
Well look at it this way, when you loose those 8 pounds it will no longer be a lie.
Making smaller goals for yourself is a GREAT idea. I set a certain goal I felt sure I could make; it was still heavier then I "should" be. When I met that goal I set a new small goal and so on. I am on goal #3 now... and even if I don't make that I feel good about myself for making the first 2.
How many of us have the correct weight on our driver's licenses? Not me. You know, it may be too heavy now. I'll have to check. :-)
I don't remember lying on government documents but maybe that's because I'm from Texas and they put you UNDER the jail for that down there!
Hey you are so close to the lie, just a couple pounds away. That's two weeks work for you. I'll be back soon to see if your lie has transformed into truth. ;0)
At least it doesn't show up on your DL like it does in Cali. Imagine how that feels every time you're asked to show your ID. I don't know that they really care about your exact weight as long as they're not looking for you as a 110 lbs. "Twiggy". :) Not worth beating yourself up over. I am curious though. Was it easier to put the weight of your other applicants down?
Thank you for all your comments! I have comments sent to my cell phone so it was interesting to receive them. THEY have also given me perspective - i.e. when I weighed in this am (down!) I thought "closer to the TRUTH!" and I've been thinking about how a lie is just that - a LIE, and UNTRUTH. Not "fudging" or "white lie" but just that! Also, do people who don't focus on their weight actually tell the "truth" on their forms? I mean - DH just guessed his, but when he actually weighed in, he saw what the truth was...however, his "lie" was just ambivalance to the scale...Make sense??!!
Dawn
No..I was too scared to. Right now I am under the weight on my license by 23 pounds that's kind of fun!
I know you will get out of the 90's you are almost there! You can do it!
Keep focused!
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