How we talk about weight...

I am noticing, that different people talk about weight differently. I have seen people afriad to gain 'the weight' back, and people afriad to gain 'my weight' back. I usually catch myself calling it 'my weight'. I was thinking about that recently, and thought, maybe it's a sign of my not having caught up to my new body yet with my mind. I mean,.. it was my weight, but it's not now. I don't have it and don't want it. I wonder if changing how I think about the former weight is something important to do to keep it away in the future? Does this make sense to anyone else, or am I just rambling? LOL!

Everyone is different, but for me it's "my weight".  I owned it.  I was responsible for it.  I am still responsible to make sure it never becomes a permanent fixture on my body again.

What an interesting question!  You know I've never paid any attention to how I refer to it.  I'm guessing that I say "the weight", but I really like Annette's response.  It makes sense that if I own it and accept responsibility for "my weight" that it would make it easier to keep focused on not letting excess weight become a burden to me again.  I'm going to have to give this some serious thought. This is one of the things I love about this board.  So many different perspectives give us opportunities to look at ourselves and our lives in new and different ways. Thanks Linda, for bringing this up.

I think it just depends in my case sometimes I refer to it as "my weight" and sometimes "the weight"

I;ve just referred to as 'the weight'. I still have a problem visuallizing where I truly am. I am buying smaller clothes and hearing such great compliments but i still have my big bones on; does that make sense. Even before i shower, (sorry is tmi) i check my naked bod out. I know i'm smaller, more fit, not as heavy, but i'm afraid i won't be happy until i'm a supermodel. (which i know is probably impossible) My legs have a lot of extra skin and i'd love to wear shorts some day. I need to take just one day at a time. I am happy with my wls; it was the best gift I could have ever gotten (even if it wasn't free!!!) hugs Amanda

Awesome question and it makes perfect sense. I like that. I know for me I say my weight as well. I am going to be in a civic theater play this April and we were looking for costumes and I automatically asked if they had any plus sizes clothes for bigger girls. That's just the mind frame I am still in. I can fit into 14 pants, I even bought some size large lounge pants, but am still in a 16 top, but that's awesome for me. It's just getting our minds caught up to your bodies. Oh, sadly the civic theater didn't have anything but a skirt that was bigger than a 12. I was told the previous directors typically cast smaller people and they haven't been "big" friendly most of the time. Guess they need to rethink their logic! :)