An April Fool's Day Extravaganza!!!

For me, April Fool's Day is a time to celebrate the fun and healing that humor brings to our lives...so, telling jokes and funny stories is the order of the day, methinks! :)

Let's use this special opportunity to share stories of funny things that have happened in our lives as a result of weight loss (whether through surgery or other means...).

OK?

I will go first:

This was about 10 years ago. I had lost a bunch of weight through hypnosis, which was verrrrrry interesting, but that is another story. It was also effective (at least for the short term), because, like I said, I did lose a lot of weight.

So, on that particular morning, as I was putting on my favorite brown skirt, I noticed that it was....well, a bit...loose around the waist. I did think of pinning it to make it a bit tighter, but I didn't think that it would really be necessary...so, off to work I went....

That afternoon, I bumped into someone that I hadn't seen in a while, someone I respect, someone who maybe could help me in my work future...

After a pleasant chat with him, I innocently walked away, and down a long corridor. I was minding my own business, when, suddenly, out of the blue, with absolutely no warning, one of those things that my inner 5th-grader dreads to happen, HAPPENED.

First, I noticed that something felt funny around my waist.

I kept walking, hoping that the strange sensation would go away. Ah, denial is a wonderful thing!!

To my horror, I then felt a similar feeling around my knees.

My friends, my too-big brown skirt, yes, that's the one, the little brown number that Yours Truly couldn't be bothered with to pin in the morning, yes, THAT brown skirt was falling down, and faster than a speeding asteroid...YIKES!!

In a nanosecond, that pretty brown skirt was

down

to

my

ankles.

You know, ankles! Those things that are very very very very clossssssssse to the FLOOR.

Well, as you can imagine (you are imagining this aren't you?????), by this time, I had stopped walking.

I even screamed a lovely, delicate, ladylike scream. Yes, the exact scream that a true lady screams when she realizes that she is in the middle of a heavily-walked corridor in her workplace, with an important person maybe not too far behind her, with her skirt at her ankles! For G-d and the world to see!!

(Later, one of my co-workers helpfully pointed out that things weren't really so catastrophic, because "at least you were wearing a slip!" Let me tell you, that was a very comforting thought!)

My philosophy is that even when less-than-ideal things happen, it can be a good thing, because they often make good stories. One can not have too many good stories, right? I delighted my 6-year old neice with this story several years ago, when she had one of her first encounters with the emotion of embarrassment, and I wanted to demonstrate to her that everyone, even her esteemed Aunt Swizzlequeen, experiences embarrassment, and they survive! The story served it purpose very well, and the memory of her giggle and smile upon hearing it is a treasure to me to this very day.

...and then the beautiful princess pulled up her skirt, looked around her, saw that the corridor was completely empty -- absolutely no one had witnessed the delicate fluttering-down of her skirt! At that instant, her entire being was focused on one thing, and one thing only: to find a safety pin!

...and they all lived happily ever after!

OK, now it's your turn! What funny thing has happened to you because you lost weight or were trying to lose weight...???

Ive never lost my pants, but the summer of my VSG, I was wearing jean capris....and I let tthem get way tooo big. I mean, the crotch was hanging at my knees. I was at the grocery store with my nephew and when I was getting into the car (after getting groceries thank heavens) my capris got all caught up and twisted and when I sat down, they completely ripped apart at the seams...soooo yeah, my butt was hanging out. Imagine how hard a 13 yr old boy could laugh at this. He stopped laughing when I sprinted to my apartment, and left him to carry every thing up a couple flights of stairs :)

I have had close calls wearing clothes that are too tight and being paranoid about splitting a seam but NEVER thought it would happen bc my pants were toooo big.