What are some of the funniest, craziest, zaniest things people have told you about your band or your weight loss? I would like to make a list to include in my blog....(NO names will be given!!)

Here are a few of mine...I think they are crazy because even though I lost 67 lbs I am still considered obese by the weight charts (Just goes to show PERSPECTIVE is everything. I look great compared to where I have been, but I am still fat people!!)

1. You look like you are melting!

2. Bean pole!

3. You are average sized now!

4. If you just stay like this you will be great.

5. I can tell you feel better about yourself because you are not hiding your hair in a knot anymore.

6. Hot Mama!

7. When does the band come out?

8. You don't want to loose too much more you will look sick.

9. Did you start working out or something?

10. I noticed you look different but I don't like to comment because my aunt lost a lot of weight and was in fact dying.

11. You should Celebrate your [insert milestone weight loss] with a dinner out!

At the Jewish New Year dinner, a woman who was sitting next to me asked where my food was. To me, I had to much on the plate and to her, not enough. I said I have plenty of food, thank you. This same woman was shocked when I refused to tell say how much weight I have lost. Oh, well, not any one's business. I don't share except here and with my husband. Also, a lot of people don't know I have a band.

When I went to replace my driver's license and get a new picture taken, the woman looked at my old one and then looked at me and goes "this doesn't even look like you, it looks like your fat cousin". LMAO!

I also had a lady at the pharmacy say to me "I hope you're trying to lose all that weight, not dying of cancer or something". (lol wut?)

the craziest thing is that i am pretty now..

what was i butt ugly before?

What are you going to do after you lose all the weight , does the band come out and are you going to have another surgery , so at this point and time I told them right now I am just working on being more healthy and that shuts them up.

My bariatric nurse told me LOOK your shrinking!! I have to say that was the funniest....she thinks her patients look shorter and littler as they lose weight...it was funny but strange...Im already very short lol Regardless....shes amazing

Brittany

People tell me I look taller

My bariatric nurse told me LOOK your shrinking!! I have to say that was the funniest....she thinks her patients look shorter and littler as they lose weight...it was funny but strange...Im already very short lol Regardless....shes amazing

Brittany

You know what's nuts? Your nurse is right! I was just over 5'4" before I got my band and had been that height since high school. Now? I'm barely 5'3"! I actually did get shorter!

I say I must've had a really fat head or something lol!

MIL told me u were always such a sweet person but now ur pretty too... I was like dang guess I know wwhat u used to think of me..lol

Yeah scary to imagine how short Ill be when im at my goal weight...Almost half way there though! the last month has been a lil slower and I know its due to diet and a dreadful snow storm we had here where i had to destroy my food week by living at the hospital for 36 hours straight lol....the cafeteria didnt hold many options and i wasnt in the mood to count calories...

I just had a tummy tuck and am laughing at all these posts...oh gawd it hurts so bad lol

Ok. I just had my son help me measure my height as I was OMG I can't be shrinking. To my relief I'm still 5'3" like I've been for the past 20 yrs.

I had a work colleague say in a meeting, oh I heard you had lost weight you have done it before though so what's different this time ? In a roomful of people I replied "a gastric band" one very red face and a round of congratulations!

the craziest thing is that i am pretty now..

what was i butt ugly before?

I love the picture. All dogs are cute!

I had a work colleague say in a meeting, oh I heard you had lost weight you have done it before though so what's different this time ? In a roomful of people I replied "a gastric band" one very red face and a round of congratulations!

That was very brave of you to speak up like that. I would have been the red in the face person. I do turn very red.

I'm way past caring what people think anymore lol, the way I see it is that I am saving my life, diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol ect ect , the side effect is weight loss. I am down to the last three stone and I'm expecting at some stage the " ypu have lost too much now" conversations. These are the issues of others not me. I'm too busy recovering to recover anyone else.