Outside Confirmation

Jun 24, 2007

I have lost 80 pounds since surgery, 130 including the 50 I lost the three months before surgery. I, myself, notice everything I've lost. I no longer see the person I was in the mirror. I've never had a problem seeing the new me.

I had some great second hand confirmation of my weight loss recently. My mother works with someone who had gastric bypass a couple of years ago. She gave me a lot of good information about what to expect. I hadn't seen her since February or so, but my mother said that she really wanted to see me again (she works in a vision store on the nearby Redstone Arsenal.) On this particular day, I saw her working in the store and tried to get her attention. She didn't notice me, so I thought that she just couldn't see me. So I walked into the store. I stood there fore a second smiling at her. She said, "May I help you, sir?" I just kept smiling at her. She had a bewildered look on her face, like, "Who is this weirdo?" Then she asked if she could help me again. Then, her eyes opened wide and she gasped. "Oh, my God!" she said. She didn't even know who I was. We hugged and she congratulated me.

This wasn't the first time that I wasn't recognized by someone who I hadn't seen in a while, but it was the most dramatic. It's kind of fun, like an exciting adventure. Who knows what the future holds?

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