Do People Treat you Diffrently now?

My friends, family and coworkers treat me the same, I think because I "act" the same around them. 

Strangers and casual acquaintances are more friendly and more likely to initiate conversation.

Sad to say but people "like" you more if you are more attractive, or at least act like you feel more attractive.

Anne

EVERYONE treats me differently. 

I treat everyone differently too. 

I'm different. 

I didn't think so until my daughter in a fit of teenage anger told me that before I became 'normal' she felt sorry for me. So while people don't seem to treat me differently, they probably think of me in a different way. I can't really say I am different either. I just feel like I always thought I looked. I had reverse dysmorphia! I was fat but always saw myself as I was before I got fat. Its easy to adjust now. My body caught up with my brain finally. Not the other way around.

The replies to this post make me feel so sad.  I feel like I won't be able to trust anyone's treatment of me post weight loss :(

Friends and family have treated me the same.  At work (when I'm there, I usually work from home), we have a very strong culture of respectfulness, so people there haven't changed much in their treatment of me. That said...

There are whole swaths of the population who walk thru life invisible.  The obese are one group - no one pays them any attention, unless it's negative.  The old, or older, are another group, especially women.  So while I'm no longer obese, surgery certainly didn't fix my age, which will be 64 next month, and I remain invisible.

When I interact with strangers one-on-one, people are generally nicer than they used to be.  And maybe that's partly me, after all it takes two to engage in any human interaction. OTOH, maybe it's because I'm usually the customer - most of the strangers I meet are grocery clerks, service people, wait staff, etc. 

All in all, I'd say weight loss hasn't made a huge difference in how I'm treated, generally.  One exception that surprised me is that a couple of gentlemen I've come across lately have been interested in dating me.  THAT's new!

I completely think people treat me differently now because of my weight loss. I think it is because society accepts smaller people better then heavy people. There are less rude comments in my own family, which they thought were ok because they were family. I have had people be nicer to be all around. More men open and hold the door for me when that never happened before. I feel like I act the same though, I didnt need to lose the weight to act like the real me. I feel like now my outsides reflect who I always have been on the inside. Basically, I am still the big mouth ***** that I used to be...just in a smaller size LOL

Hard to say - I believe relationships (casual or intimate) are cyclical - each person plays off of and reacts to the other.

I definitely feel that (a) not much has changed in close, long-term friendships, acquaintances, family, work and (b) new relationships seem to start up a bit easier - hard to know if that's me (more confidence) or them reacting to me... (c) women definitely smile at me more.  I'm not a 'flirter' or anything, i just notice that women seem friendlier in general, whereas men seem pretty much the same as before.