Hey Dani, your post is like reading my own all over again.
At the time, I just didn't get it. You people never looked at me before and now all of the sudden you all over me acting as if we're best buds and wanting to know all my "secrets"... as if I had any. I totally resented it, which is not the best reaction, I know. I just didn't get why people felt so comfortable with me just because I was losing weight. I was the same person, right?
But, looking back, I think people (that I knew already) took it as an opportunity to pass along a compliment. They probably didn't mean it the way I was taking it at the time. They were just (for the most part) trying to be nice. (Of course, some of them just wanted scoop so they could report back to others that wanted to know if I really had surgery.)
You asked how I dealt with it? Well, I admit that I ignored it. I might have said "thanks" but then I moved on... no lingering to see if they wanted to chat it up. I was on a mission to lose the weight and get healthy. I didn't want to burden myself with telling my life story to people I barely knew. Again, maybe not the best way to handle it, but it's what I did at the time.
There are plenty of others on here that took things more positively than I did... which is good. I probably should have taken the time to soak up the attention... but I'm just not wired that way.
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RNY LAP March 30, 2005
244 pre-op / 121 current and holding!
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