ummm, i used to be fat ya know....

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In a message dated 1/15/2004 1:31:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,

Graduate-OSSG writes:

It's going to be weird moving to a new place with a new body. Nobody

there will have ever known me as being fat (except for one couple we

know from before). I guess I'll be expected to act normal!! No

barrage of compliments, words of coaching and encouragement. I think

I've gotten used to dressing in new, smaller clothes, going out and

having people notice. I wonder how my vain ego will hold up when I'm

just the average Joe. I've become accustomed to adoration!!LOL! I

guess I'll have to work on developing mu personality!

i have found it amazing how when i meet people who don't know the old me and

subsequently don't give me credit for where I have come from ....an example is

that i was in a session counseling a morbidly obese woman and she was talking

about her newest diet and took a good look at me and said well what do skinny

people like you know about what i go through (it wasn't clinically

appropriate to disclose my surgery to this particular client) i almost turned

around to

see who she was talking about....then when i realized that she was talking

about me i nearly fell out of my chair...but it is amazing that since i have

moved to another position people like me anyway...and think i dress cute and am

a

good person...who knew....

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In a message dated 01/15/2004 1:51:19 PM Pacific Standard Time,

sunshinesmith22@... writes:

i have found it amazing how when i meet people who don't know the old me and

subsequently don't give me credit for where I have come from ....an example

is

that i was in a session counseling a morbidly obese woman and she was talking

about her newest diet and took a good look at me and said well what do skinny

people like you know about what i go through (it wasn't clinically

appropriate to disclose my surgery to this particular client) i almost turned

around to

see who she was talking about....then when i realized that she was talking

about me i nearly fell out of my chair...but it is amazing that since i have

moved to another position people like me anyway...and think i dress cute and

am a

good person...who knew....

that's amazing! What a trip that must've been for you, to hear that about

yourself!!

Have fun on your trip, be careful and all that, OK? Can't wait til you get

back and let us all know how much fun you had!!

Hugs,

Katt Morales

Surgery Date: 01/07/2003

Dr. Terry Sanderfer - Open RNY Distal

Beginning Weight: 300 Current Weight: 150

Weight Lost: 150 Goal Weight: 135-144

We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a

man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

--Winston Churchill

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When we moved to Florida I went through this. No one here ever knew me when

I was fat, all they know is the person that I look like now. It's very

strange, even now 21 months later. The majority of my neighbors are thin,

most are downright skinny, although there's one who is MO and a few that are

a little overweight. I've never really dealt with being friends with thin

people before. While I've become quite close to my neighbors (we have

cookouts at each other's houses frequently and all of our kids play outside

together after school every day), it's difficult at times because they

really don't understand me completely. They do know about my surgery (I had

to explain the TT and it's obvious that there's a lot of extra skin still)

and think it's great and all, but they just don't get it. These are

wonderful women, but they complain about the pooch that they have from their

3rd baby and were jealous when I had my TT. I checked, there is NO pooch!

lol. These are normal looking (a little on the skinny side IMO)

30-something women, all of which have had 2 or 3 kids.

On a different note, we frequently order stuff from the online Disney

catalog (we order together to save on shipping). One of the women wanted to

get a particular shirt that I already had and she asked me what size I got.

I told her that I got a small. She said that if I got a small, she's going

to get a medium. HUH?? This is a woman who doesn't have an ounce of fat on

her! I told her that there's no way that she's bigger than me. I even took

off the shirt and made her put it on. Yup, it was tight. Granted, it's

just because she has broad shoulders and I don't, but still ... I bought a

pair of jeans on the clearance rack at Target (LOVE the Cherokee jeans

there) and it turned out that she had bought the same ones in the same size!

I would never have picked this woman as someone I'm the same size as.

Anyway, before I go off on another tangent, yes, it's very strange meeting

people. I always want to tell them that I'm really a fat person in a thin

person's body because I feel like an imposter. " I'm not a thin person, but

I play one on ... "

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ummm, i used to be fat ya know....

In a message dated 1/15/2004 1:31:55 PM Eastern Standard Time,

Graduate-OSSG writes:

It's going to be weird moving to a new place with a new body. Nobody

there will have ever known me as being fat (except for one couple we

know from before). I guess I'll be expected to act normal!! No

barrage of compliments, words of coaching and encouragement. I think

I've gotten used to dressing in new, smaller clothes, going out and

having people notice. I wonder how my vain ego will hold up when I'm

just the average Joe. I've become accustomed to adoration!!LOL! I

guess I'll have to work on developing mu personality!

i have found it amazing how when i meet people who don't know the old me and

subsequently don't give me credit for where I have come from ....an example

is

that i was in a session counseling a morbidly obese woman and she was

talking

about her newest diet and took a good look at me and said well what do

skinny

people like you know about what i go through (it wasn't clinically

appropriate to disclose my surgery to this particular client) i almost

turned around to

see who she was talking about....then when i realized that she was talking

about me i nearly fell out of my chair...but it is amazing that since i have

moved to another position people like me anyway...and think i dress cute and

am a

good person...who knew....