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"You're lying, that's not you!"

Today I was fiddling with my collage maker on my phone and made a collage of one of my 'before' pics from 2003 and one of me that I took today, in 2013. I wanted to use it as my profile pic on here, so this is it:

 

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I sent it to myself at work, had it up on my screen and someone I didn't know very well walked up behind me and said 'who is the person on the left?'

 

So I said, 'oh that's me 10 years ago'.

 

Believe it or not, she puffed herself up in indignation and looked me in the eye and said quite rudely "you're lying, that's not you!" and then proceeded to tell me that the person in the photo on the left looked nothing like me, the woman was obviously older, the skin tone was all wrong and who was I trying to kid anyway???

 

I didn't have to say anything, my colleague next to me actually said 'actually that is her' and explained about the lapband (everyone who knows me knows about it). The women then did the huge dramatic act of pretending to be hugely shocked and then interested in how I did it, completely ignoring the fact that she'd basically just accused me of lying!

 

Lucky for her, I thought it was highly amusing, and took it as a compliment, and walked away thinking it would be a good anecdote for this blog. Hey, sometimes you gotta look for the silver lining in everything, right?

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chasingadream

LAP-BAND Patients

Congratulations and WOW...you look amazing and yes, quite different from your before pic....what an inspiration!

THANK YOU! :)

Thats All Folks

LAP-BAND Patients

You look simply amazing. I think it's hysterical she actually got in a snit because she thought you were trying to dupe her.

gowalking

LAP-BAND Patients

she's right lell....it doesn't look like you. it's almost impossible to see it's a before and after shot. it's really amazing.....

Bandista

LAP-BAND Patients

Big changes must sometimes bring up a lot of stuff for the people around us. I worry about this in my usual way of banking anxiety in advance -- what will I say, what if people like me better when I'm thinner and that feels weird, unfair...etc. And so I love how out there you are with your colleagues -- it's inspiring me to be more open. Maybe. But just so you know I like the you on the left as well -- so glad for your health, your success -- congratulations on the results of all your hard work!

dylanmiles23

LAP-BAND Patients

WOW!

You look great now. I had never seen your before picture. Keep up the amazing work.

I did see your before picture in a white dress.

NaNa

LAP-BAND Patients

Wow! You look like a different person. You must feel on top of the world.

mrsto

LAP-BAND Patients

WOW, A-mazing transformation! You look positively fantastic!!

Lying, really? Why on earth would someone lie about that?? Geez.....

lellow

LAP-BAND Patients

Just as another anecdote to this story, I went and saw my 7yo the same weekend I wrote the original blog post, and I was talking to my ex about this subject on the Sunday. I showed the ex the picture above and my son spied it over my shoulder. He then got upset because he wouldn't believe that the person on the left was me and thought we were making fun of him.

My older kids remember that photo of course, but obviously my youngest doesn't ever remember mum being heavier...

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