Today a group of my female HS students asked me if I lost weight. I was like "Thank God". Hardly anyone has noticed and I am down about 43 lbs. These kids notice EVERYTHING and are not shy about telling you about yourself.

Though I am doing this for myself and my health, I am vein enough to enjoy a compliment now and then. LOL

A few people I had not seen before my surgery have asked me "when it starts working". UGH! I packed on quite a bit prior to the surgery, so am still bigger than the last time they saw me.

All in due time I guess.

I started at 338 and am now down to 281 in 5 months. I started to get the "wow - I can see you're losing weight" comments after I had finally come out of the 300's (about 40 pounds of weight loss). Now, I'm noticing more and more changes on my body - and my mother even commented a couple weeks ago on how little my arms were getting (hadn't seen her since pre-surgery)...something I hadn't noticed until she pointed it out! Now that I'm getting close to 60 pounds lost (I'm a tall girl), I'm starting to see the changes more often...every 10 pounds or so. But, yeah - I hear ya! It took awhile for that to kick in!

Thats awesome... congrats! A close friend the other day asked me if I had lost anything while she was telling me about here friend who lost three pounds... I was like umm YEAH just a pantsize no big deal LOL

Actually, it's extremely rude to comment about somebody's weight loss or gain completely out of the blue. It's likely been noticed but nobody's said anything. Can you imagine telling somebody they've lost weight and receiving a reply of "yeah, chemo will do that to you..."? Awkward.

Actually, it's extremely rude to comment about somebody's weight loss or gain completely out of the blue. It's likely been noticed but nobody's said anything. Can you imagine telling somebody they've lost weight and receiving a reply of "yeah, chemo will do that to you..."? Awkward.

While it may be rude, High school students are not known for their tact. So , Tracy, I totally get it. I had one male student stay after class and ask, "Not to be rude, but are you losing weight?" I replied yes and wished him a good day. Later that week I saw a gril who is a senior in the hallway, I said Hi. She said "Oh my god, you are disappearing!" I smiled and said, "Come back next year and visit me, if you can find me--I may be totally disappeared!"

While in the course of human events it may be rude to say these things, in the course of High School students, they will notice, they will say stuff (sometimes really mean stuff) and they will learn the hard way that it can be rude when someone does put them in a position of feeling awkward.

I teach high school special ed but I figure the students don't notice because their all boys and emotionally and behaviorally disturbed.

The staff and my assistant has definitely noticed. It's hard to not notice even if its only 45lbs.