{"id":12,"date":"2016-01-09T03:08:51","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T03:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theodeas.com\/Dee\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2016-01-18T23:13:23","modified_gmt":"2016-01-18T23:13:23","slug":"about-dee","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/theodeas.com\/Dee\/about-dee\/","title":{"rendered":"About Dee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Sweethearts,<\/p>\n<p>At 50 years old, or 50 years young I have decided to put mouse to screen and share my story with you. My story is just that My Story, its no better, no worse, and I know you have your own story to tell.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14\" src=\"https:\/\/theodeas.com\/Dee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Dee-About.jpg\" alt=\"About Dee\" width=\"530\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theodeas.com\/Dee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Dee-About.jpg 530w, https:\/\/theodeas.com\/Dee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Dee-About-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>This Is My Story&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>My life thus far is a BIG FAT LIE. A whopper, a cover up, a game I play with everyone I know, nearest and dearest and anyone else who crosses my path. Smoke and mirrors.<\/p>\n<p>I am the smiling Assassin. I taught myself to smile when I meet people, to compliment them and to keep eye contact with them, and to win them over with my total attention to every word they say, added with a healthy dose of humor. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Just like you, I have baggage, boy do I have Baggage. I could make a Handbag shop look like a coin purse. And I have been dragging this Red Hot Mess around with me for 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>Well I&#8217;m done dragging that &#8216;Bag&#8217; around, it wears me out, I am sick to death of it, and I know you are sitting their with your Baggage, saying your singing my song sister. You bet your cotton socks I am! I am one of the thousands of people out there, who hides, who pretends she fits in, who pretends to be the cool kid, who loves you to death&#8230;but if you scratched beneath the surface, you would see my Big Fat Lie.<\/p>\n<p>I feel until now I have been one of those painted horses on a carousel. I go up and down just like the other horses, have a &#8216;painted on&#8217; big smile like all the other horses, but its day in and day out, day in and day out.<\/p>\n<p>Its time for me to jump off that carousel and run with my story!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Understanding MY BIG FAT LIE is easy, every part of MY BIG FAT <em>&#8216;LIFE&#8217;<\/em> has been hard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing ever comes easy to me, and I know you are with me, on that one. Life is hard, and does not ever seem to get easier.<\/p>\n<p>We are judged, we are labeled. If you are not a supermodel or a musclebound demi god, then there must be something wrong with you&#8230;or so it feels.<\/p>\n<p>Let me tell you there is nothing \u201c&#8217;wrong with you\u201d. You are not a sheep, you don&#8217;t have to join the human robots of this world and morph into some carbon copy of what you see all over the Internet. You don&#8217;t have to take 29 selfies a day, to make sure you get the right angle, or to put another photo of yourself on your social media page&#8230;which then exposes you to &#8216;Idiots and Trolls&#8217; who have nothing better to do than tear you down&#8230;and inflate their own egos.<\/p>\n<p>I know I will get the &#8216;Haters and Trolls&#8217;. However, if any &#8216;Haters and Trolls&#8217; are reading right now&#8230;you have nothing that hasn&#8217;t been said to me or done to me a thousand times before. So give it your best. If hating on me makes you feel a bigger person, well my friend, you have made my day because you have made yourself feel better about yourself and that is what I am all about.<\/p>\n<p>Now this old dog has learned a few tricks. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>I am 123kgs or 270.6lbs.<\/p>\n<p>Check out my <a href=\"https:\/\/theodeas.com\/Dee\/big-fat-gallery\/\">photo gallery<\/a> and you will see for yourself. All photos have been taken (like the one on this page) by my best friend&#8230;I call her Tinkerbell. There has been no Photoshop or enhancements made&#8230;just a good ole camera be it good bad or ugly.<\/p>\n<p>I have tried every diet ever, bought every bit of Gym Gear, had Gym membership cards which I could have played cards with all my cards! Plus, for a period of six months, I even had a personal trainer.<\/p>\n<p>I had everything the diet industry could throw at me, and the only thing I didn&#8217;t get was the T-Shirt, LOL, they didn&#8217;t make it in my size! \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion&#8230;diets don&#8217;t work!! Lifestyle changes is just a posh term for diet. Now I certainly do not condone my weight, and I wouldn&#8217;t recommend it either, but after 50 years of trying everything known to mankind, I now know what works for me. The important question is, &#8220;What works for you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t eat vegetables, I hate them!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t own a juicer, not an old one, nor a new one.<\/p>\n<p>It seems to me the juicers people bought six months ago, are now old hat because the new juicer is now so much more powerful&#8230;haha&#8230;it could rocket it&#8217;s way to Mars, extract red &#8216;Mars&#8217; dust, turn it into a Super Dooper Juicer and mix in Kale, Quinoa, and Goji berries, and to top it all off, you would lose 100lbs in three months, be rocking the body of a Uber Supermodel, strutting your way down a Paris runway with a pair of Wings on your back!<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget those 29 selfies you could take of yourself in your undies and wings&#8230;OMG!<\/p>\n<p>Now if you are still with me, mental illness is a huge part of &#8216;My Big Fat Lie Story&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>I have PTSD with Chronic Depression, and here is the kicker, the love of my life, is Bi Polar, also with Chronic Depression. Now we didn&#8217;t know this about each other when we met. How&#8217;s that for a &#8216;Power Combo&#8217; to put in your Super Dooper Juicer, and turn out &#8216;A Big Hot Fat Red Mess&#8217;, <em>but I still want those Angel wings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My other BIG FAT ISSUES which have made me live a BIG FAT LIE (to hide my true self)&#8230;include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A victim of incest (will be addressed in the easiest way I can) which led to 50 years of &#8216;self harm&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Body issues along with a lack of self respect and self-confidence<\/li>\n<li>My big fat self and my big fat family<\/li>\n<li>My &#8216;Mother The Torturer&#8217; (this will also be addressed with sensitivity).<\/li>\n<li>As mentioned, Depression and PTSD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If I have left anything out&#8230;it will come soon enough.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s happening to me now? I know it&#8217;s probably happening to you too!<\/p>\n<p>Right now I am battling with menopause, those awful hot flashes, hair thinning, facial hair, turkey neck (I thought they were only for turkeys&#8230;) wrinkles, stretch marks, an overbite that could make people say &#8216;You could murder a green apple!&#8217; Oh yes&#8230;and there&#8217;s more.<\/p>\n<p>I am also going to be sharing a few of my fave recipes.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, my tips on Goat Wrangling &#8212; Wait what? &#8212; No Goat Wrangling&#8230;.just kidding. \ud83d\ude1b Goat&#8230;kid&#8230;oh boy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now for the disclaimer bit. I am not a Doctor, Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Counselor, or Healer. I can&#8217;t make your pain or mine go away&#8230;although I wish I could&#8230;and maybe you will find something in my words that will help YOU.<\/p>\n<p>I am just wanting to share my Big Fat Lies with you and hope you find something in My Big Lies, that you can relate to, and together &#8220;Lets Turn Our Big Fat Lies Into Our Big FAT Happiness!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sending you love and be kind to yourself,<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Big Fat Dee<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Sweethearts, At 50 years old, or 50 years young I have decided to put mouse to screen and share my story with you. My story is just that My Story, its no better, no worse, and I know you have your own story to tell. 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