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Someone called me skinny yesterday....

thenume

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thenume    2

thenume
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Yesterday my husband and I dropped by his cousins house to pick something up. I haven't seen my cousin in law in about a year in a half. When he saw us, he greeted my husband and looked at me and said" you are really skinny". I thought I heard him say that, but all I could do is stand there and smile while simultaneously think I weigh 197lbs, I'm not skinny! My husband kind of startled me out of my trance and said- Rodney gave you a compliment--laughing hysterically as if he were reading my mind! I quickly said thankyou and told him he looked good himself (he's been lifting weights and used to be skinny). I can't get over that. People who see me that hasn't seen me in a longtime WILL say to me things like " Wow you look good" or :you've lost alot of weight", but skinny...I've NEVER heard that in my life! :mellow:

The strange thing is I saw Rodney's brother the week before and he yelled across the store- "Oh my God, you've lost ALOT of weight"! That was embarassing. :biggrin:

I still want to lose 20lbs pounds. I feel like I still have a ways to go! Oh well, I'll take the compliments however I get them! :wub:

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JonathanLA    0

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That's so cool. No one has called me skinny yet but I've had two instances of people in the same apartment building do a double take when they walked by me and tell me how good I look now. One guy told me he thought I was the brother of the guy living there and I had to convince him it was me. That's was very funny.

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Both of your stories made me smile (and I REALLY needed that!).

Congratulations to both of you. And how COOL!!!

Keep up the great work!

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Both of your stories made me smile (and I REALLY needed that!).

Congratulations to both of you. And how COOL!!!

Keep up the great work!

Thank you ...and may you be called skinny too very soon!

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thenume    2

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That's so cool. No one has called me skinny yet but I've had two instances of people in the same apartment building do a double take when they walked by me and tell me how good I look now. One guy told me he thought I was the brother of the guy living there and I had to convince him it was me. That's was very funny.

WOW JonathanLA,

You've lost over 100lbs...that's great!!!

Rock on wit' ya bad self!!!! :biggrin:

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I told my mom that I'd lost 70% of my excess body weight and she was like, "NO. It is like 99.9% Where is anymore going to come from?" I was so stoked. Those compliments keep me going! Congrats!

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What a great story!!!!

I have a convertible Mini Cooper...had the top down this weekend enjoying the cool weather and I had two men rubberneck to watch me turn and drive off... lol...I am sooo happily married but let me tell you - getting noticed again, nothing compares to THAT! :biggrin: Clearly not invisible anymore... ha ha...

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thenume    2

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What a great story!!!!

I have a convertible Mini Cooper...had the top down this weekend enjoying the cool weather and I had two men rubberneck to watch me turn and drive off... lol...I am sooo happily married but let me tell you - getting noticed again, nothing compares to THAT! :rolleyes2: Clearly not invisible anymore... ha ha...

Being noticed again does feel good!!!!!:sad_smile:

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

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