So how long does it take

To stop "thinking fat"? I still head for the fat clothes when I go shopping, I still make sure the resturant booth is wide enough to get in and out of!
Do you ever get your head wrapped around the fact that you are no longer a fat person.
But theres something that I have noticed...men have started smiling at me again?? WTH? Many be cause I smile ? da ya think? LOL


HUGS
JOY

Dearest Joy,

The men a smiling cause your one hot mama!! Someone once told me it took you years to become as big as you were, it will take time for your mind to catch up with your new body..I know, I know...speed it up!!..lol Just cherish the little things in life. Sitting at a both, moving the car seat up cause your legs are short due to your stomach is small..lol, tightening the seatbelt..and shopping in the "regular" section!


Hugs,

Julie

Hi Joy

I am over 4 years out and I still have fat days.  I wonder if my head will every realize that I am not morbidly obese anymore.

Sheryl

Dear Joy,

I was a plump, round Asian woman for so many years, that sometimes I can't believe that I am the person I see staring back at me in the mirror.  And isn't amazing how it seems that men smile, open doors and help you get things down from the shelves... Enjoy! 

~Naomi

 

I am 5 months out and am absolutely amazed that I no longer have to shop in the fat lady zone.  I avoid that like the plague!!!!  I look at myself in the mirror each morning and smile.  It makes my day.

OMG - I got "hit on" by a guy when I was driving up hwy 50 to my kids house.  He was smiling at me, damn near broke his neck looking at me and held up his phone and pantomimed if he could call me.  I shook my head and held up my magnificent wedding set.  It made me feel so good, but it was kinda creepy. 

Hang in there!  Your head will catch up to your body!

I don't think EVER!  I still look at shirts that are the size of a twin bed and think that will fit me, sure it will fit, the OLD me.  I can't grasp now that I am so much thinner, in the mirror and my mind I still see a person that is HUGE!  Doesn't matter that my pants have gone from a 32 to a 16, or my shirt size is maybe a 2xl in womens from a 6xl in man sizes, my eyes are still seeing the same person.  I still wonder why people look at me, or as I would call it, stare,  but now when I look back at them, they smile, what the hell?  Why didn't they smile before.  I still can't go out and eat something that might be fattening, I feel like the entire restuarant is looking at me.  I don't think it will ever change until I get into a thong bikini at age 61~

Diane,

That was just too funny.  By the way I did get you a thong for your birthday in a few days!  I just need your address to send it to you, can you PM your address?  I will include the gift reciept for you just incase you don't like purple with rinestones.  Talk to you soon!

Rhonda

OMG Diane!!  My drink just went up my nose!!  Stop!  LOL!!!!

~Naomi

HI Joy,

I am not sure it goes away.  I know the other day though I felt thinner because my underpants had a huge sag in the butt.  I knew it felt wierd and I checked the mirror and about died laughing.  But I did fell thinner!

Rhonda