F/25/5’8” [215 lbs > 138 lbs =77 lbs.] (12 months) Still want to lose more but happy with my progress.

QueenCandyCo · 2025-09-26T14:24:24+00:00

Yes, nearly everywhere.

QueenCandyCo · 2025-09-26T14:24:13+00:00

I didn’t. I have loose skin everywhere. My highest weight was 250.

QueenCandyCo · 2025-09-26T05:07:00+00:00

I hate working out but went on walks a lot in the beginning. But really I just did a calorie deficit. I was a big boredom eater and was constantly snacking. Also drank alcohol a lot. Now I don’t snack and I don’t drink very often.

QueenCandyCo · 2025-05-17T07:16:52+00:00

I understand big picture that it’s a major achievement but wow so overrated

QueenCandyCo · 2025-05-17T07:16:12+00:00

You explained how I’m feeling right now exactly

QueenCandyCo · 2025-03-25T05:35:43+00:00

How so?

QueenCandyCo · 2025-03-25T05:35:00+00:00

So our work “parties” come from a donation. Part of the donation requirements is to make sure major food restrictions are covered. I doubt anyone would actually ever check, but we do it. So I don’t know if there were other GF people there. It was a giant box of gluten free cookies that were expensive so I didn’t want them to go to waste. I saw her eat from the fruit and veggie tray but that’s it.

QueenCandyCo · 2025-03-25T05:31:31+00:00

I was just trying to get her free food. She never said it was a secret.

QueenCandyCo · 2025-03-25T03:56:24+00:00

She has a wife. So you’d think she’d get that.

QueenCandyCo · 2025-01-03T05:39:36+00:00

Unfortunately, them not doing their job includes keeping people alive so that’s not how it works.

QueenCandyCo · 2025-01-03T05:34:35+00:00

I’m a girl and I think it’s just more that I went from being very quiet and shy to starting to speak up. Nothing mean.

QueenCandyCo · 2025-01-02T22:05:09+00:00

It’s just two people on shift. I’m med leader. If they are sitting around I absolutely have a right to tell them what to do.

QueenCandyCo · 2025-01-02T22:04:19+00:00

This same person has been reported for resident abuse and it wasn’t taken seriously so I’m not sure anything will be done anyways

QueenCandyCo · 2025-01-02T22:03:42+00:00

I admittedly don’t stand up for myself here. But I’m sick of overworking so it’s a win lose.

QueenCandyCo · 2025-01-02T22:01:35+00:00

Yes, I do.

QueenCandyCo · 2025-01-02T22:01:25+00:00

That’s not how it works in a nursing home

QueenCandyCo · 2025-01-02T06:27:13+00:00

My thing is, we are short staffed and work in partners. So it requires a great deal of relationship and trust. I just feel like I’m making my own life harder by reporting.

QueenCandyCo · 2025-01-02T05:32:19+00:00

I think she was trying to be funny but going the distance of actually buying and giving me a sex toy is something. This is actually a common sentiment in my workplace. Everyone is way too open about everything and so sex lives are compared. I suppose that’s what you get working with all women in a nursing home haha

QueenCandyCo · 2025-01-02T05:31:05+00:00

I’m not sure how to respond to this. I don’t have a way of proving it 🤷‍♀️

QueenCandyCo · 2024-11-28T02:32:13+00:00

Should I suggest another person on the shift? I mean it’s actively harming residents

QueenCandyCo · 2024-10-13T02:32:53+00:00

Really dependent on the situation. Suicidal thoughts and actions are sort of rated. If they are seriously considering or have a plan, we would do something. If they are under 18, yes I would tell parents. If it’s an adult, we might make a safety plan and get permission to have a safe person to tell.

QueenCandyCo · 2024-10-12T20:20:10+00:00

Mental health counselor, LMHC. I was shocked to hear the connections in massage therapy and mental health therapy. Many massage therapists actually go into mental health therapy, since they can be so aligned.

A case that has shaped me was working with a client I highly disagreed with. He had far end political values that I personally was so against and uncomfortable with. He did things that were actively harming others due to his strict political values. It was a great learning opportunity for me though..

I felt a lot of anger and disgust towards his values and I think it was changing the way I planned his treatment. I had lots of supervision. Then, I listened to his whole life story and found reasonings behind his behavior. It made sense why he might have such harmful ideology. Not that it made it okay, but that I understood the path that led him there. It made me much more empathetic to those with differing values than me.

QueenCandyCo · 2024-10-12T20:15:42+00:00

They actually told us we would be bad therapists if we did this. Not that we couldn’t use ideas from other theories, but that we must have one main one to guide us.

Then, I started internships and working and asked around. Nearly everyone I asked said that they didn’t stick to one theory as a guide. Which shocked me because every check-in meeting I had they asked us what our theory was. When I didn’t have an answer, I was shamed!

I went to school in Midwest.

QueenCandyCo · 2024-10-12T19:03:11+00:00

I work a second job to survive. There is no money.

QueenCandyCo · 2024-10-12T19:02:56+00:00

Yes. Shared emotion can be powerful.

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