"Due?!?" "When am I due?!?" " What the hell?" "Is this really happening to me?!?" (I wondered these exact things, during the 15 seconds of complete silence. I could feel the eager anticipation that was building like electricity in the room, as 60 eyes turned upon me and waited with baited breathe for my response.)
You could hear a f*&%ing pin drop as the hustle and bustle in the room completely stopped.
I ran the scenarios (in my head).
Should I break out into dance and do the Can-Can as I high kick my way out of the room?
Should I pretend that I didn't hear the compliment and questioning from my dear friend?
Could I quickly conjure a spell out of thin air, which would evoke the floor I was standing on to teleport me straight to another dimension?
Plan A, B, and C weren't likely to work...so I exercised Plan D. (The likes of which were just as monumental as Plan A and Plan C would've been if implemented, I might add.)
I hope "my most embarrassing story" has brought a chuckle and a smile to your face today.
I share it, with the hopes that no one will be offended by it and instead, choose to laugh at my situation.
As embarrassed and as humiliated as I was, I fully acknowledge that there are millions of people who don't have enough to eat on this planet. I am damn lucky that I was born in Canada and as a result have the opportunity to eat and change my habits whenever I feel like it.
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Oh my, yes that's an embarrasing situation! Kudos to you for embracing your health and wellness afterwards and to this day. 95 lbs....wow! I'm 5' too by the way - a fellow small one. Great story and I love the beautiful context of your video.
Amazing!!! Very cool on the 5 foot, piece being the same. :) You just get use to always being the shortest, in a modern world that is (full of) and being designed for a 5' 7" individual. LOL!
This was a huge life lesson for me. Beyond the health restoration part, it taught me that if I want to achieve anything in life, it means that I first must change my habits if I want to succeed. That lesson was huge.
This was funny and I love your attitude. I am going to think of a story. I've had my fair share of bad moments. :)
LOL! Good Show @whatsup! I look forward to reading an entry from you.
I have the type of life, where very crazy things happen to me everyday...it was hard to pick my most embarrassing but this one, was right at the top. Thanks for reading, watching and commenting. :)
@rebeccaryan
Home run. Best post of the day. My thinking anyway.
Did you say a 50# drop? Incredible. Absolutely incredible.
I went from 242 to 176 at one time. It takes a lot of determination to do that.
Your incredible embarrassing moment is such a winner.
Thank you for being willing to share such a changing moment of time in your life. I know at that exact moment in time. Your world had fallen apart.
We would all want to fall through the floor. But, not possible.
But, now look at you. I think I will go back and look again. Ha
Francis
Thank you Francis! Yes 50# in total...then to this very day. Wow! your own loss was 66#. Good for you!
I find that your body eventually regulates at its ideal weight, as long as you continue on with your new habits.
This is why I prefer to say that it is an eating lifestyle as oppose to a diet. I have 0 intention of ever going back to the way that I once existed...because I wasn't really living, at that point in time.
'You look pregnant, when are you due'
Wow that is really embarrassing.
I don't know what I would've done in that situation.
I'd probably do the same thing or just stand there bewildered and frozen in shock.
Well at least time can do its magic and you can move on and many people will forget that moment but it will stick with you for the rest of your life @rebeccaryan
Yes, it was one of the most embarrassing situations that I have ever found myself in, but I wouldn't take it back because it literally saved my life because it motivated me to change. ;) Silver lining.
That's too embarrassing @rebeccaryan , lol when you got the attention of all the people. I don't like to be on the spot light if I were you I would do the same. So glad to here that this situation changed you, my best wishes for you.
Thank you @mostafa1! It was one of the best things that ever happened to me, but also the most embarrassing! ;D
Oh wow, this is great! I'm sure I can think of something stupid that I've done to cause a red face or two. Let the pondering begin lol!
I can't wait to read what you come up with! LOL!
Hahaha! That's a really very embarassing situation @rebeccaryan! But it's great that it made you adopt a great change in your life and i am sure you are proud of it today!
Btw it's been ages since I last read from you, where have you been?
Hope all fine for you!
Cheers
@progressivechef
Hi @progressivechef!
Yes. The process taught me a lot about habits and achieving goals...not to mention, probably saved me from having a heart attack.
Thank you for asking about my absence...I've been spending time teaching people about crypto.
(Never in a billizion years did I ever think I would be doing that. LOL! )
Oh how I wish I could learn a little bit more about crypto with you! I'm sure I would easily understand the subject with your teachings!
My husband and I have been teaching people how to transfer funds to buy bitcoin and then buy other coins. Once that is mastered, the next part is downloading wallets for each coin. The goal is to protect the keys that access them online. Exchanges get hacked so the safe keeping of access to the coins is critical.
I feel that dealing with cryptos looks quite easy in Canada, how i wish it was same here!
I have been trying since more than 1 month now, big head ache indeed! Many sites just does not offer the service for Mauritius!
Are you planning some posts on these steps? That could be interesting!
Wow! It sounds like the exchanges aren't recognizing Mauritius as a country. Do you think that they are lumping you together with Africa?
For us, the biggest challenges have been making sure that folks have the correct capabilities set by their respective banks on their debit cards. If this isn't set properly, the bank won't allow the transfer of payment to buy bitcoin through an exchange to occur. The problem seems to be in debit cards that are also some affiliation with Visa (the credit card company).
We (in my household) are far from experts on the subject. We've bought, sold and redeemed but weren't not trading everyday.
Well despite that we are not inside the African continent, we still form part of Africa actually, maybe that's the reason!
Hope all you will be better soon as I've read about Mauritius to be the first Ethereum island in the world soon...
I have one question for you and i am sure you will clear my mind... Can I buy other cryptos other than bitcoin directly then buy steem with them? Sorry if i am disturbing you with my questions!
Way to take a negative (mortifying) situation and turn it into a positive! Good on you! Being a guy, I have never, and will never, ask a woman if she's pregnant. I always ask someone else. It's safer that way 😉
You have taken the safest road @bitcointycoon...my general social rules are, if you wonder, never ask the person directly.
The same goes for any question about the condition of a woman's hair or the colour of it...LMAO!
Lol! I don't really even notice when someone is doing something different with their hair. I'm always surprised when someone else asks about a friends new hairstyle. I always think, "really?!? It's different than it was?!?" Haha!
You're going to be just fine @bitcointycoon. LOL!
hehe that was quite funny while reading though amazing post once again you never fail to amaze all of us :D
Thanks @blazing! LOL!
There are just some people that crazy stuff routinely happens to. I'm one of those people.
Haha great post, make me laugh a bit so ty for the read.
An embarassing but ultimately uplifting story, so congratulations on your life change!
I love reading your posts!
That's an embarrassing situation. Great story and video. It was funny though.
Thank you @luja! I can laugh about it now but at the time, I just wanted to vanish into thin air. ;D
Yes..
I've had that too. The best answer is something on the lines of "not for a while, long after you, by the looks of it" But of course we never think of the best answer at the time, do we?
Hahaha! I'm following you just for that fabulous reply! And, no...not until well after the fact. Then we beat ourselves up with all the "I should haves".
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STOPi am also thinking about myself, i am keen to share my embarrassing story.
I hope you do enter this challenge @nachon. I'd be happy to read a submission to this challenge from you. :)
madam i need some space to express it..
More than 400 words?
oh ok..
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Thanks for your very quick upvote @nachon. Provide me with a comment that relates more to the content in this post and I can upvote you, otherwise I cannot (and I really would like too).
i am also thinking about myself, i am keen to share my embarrassing story
Provide me with a comment that relates to this story @lovelygirl and I'll be happy to upvote you.
Spam me and I cannot. That's how it works. ;)