Upbeat Poll on a Dreary Day!
good job, Wendy!
I was talking about this with Cindy the other night at the meeting. Besides the obvious, appearance and health issues, I think the biggest/best change is how I'm more confidant and people take me seriously now where they didn't before. People don't look right through me anymore.
It's nice to be part of the world again!
I was talking about this with Cindy the other night at the meeting. Besides the obvious, appearance and health issues, I think the biggest/best change is how I'm more confidant and people take me seriously now where they didn't before. People don't look right through me anymore.
It's nice to be part of the world again!
Susan
That's a really good one.
Not being invisible makes life completely different doesn't it?
Having men open the door for me when they never seemed to see me before. I had an old man jump ahead of me the other day to open the door. He said, "That's pretty heavy. Let me get that." That NEVER would have happened in a MILLION years before. In fact, I don't remember a guy EVER opening a door for me when I was big. Maybe they worried I wouldn't fit through it and it would get akward or something? I don't know.
Having men flirt with me. I was SO embarassed when it happened the first time. It felt like I was cheating on my husband or something. And all the guy did is keep looking in his rearview mirror smiling really big at me. (We were in a line of cars waiting for construction to let us go.) He kept doing it for the entire time - smiling at me in that way like he wants something from me - and I didn't even recognize it for the first couple of minutes. Then I finally got what he was about and actually blushed. I haven't blushed in years.
It's really nice (but sometimes odd too) to find out what we've been missing all this time.
Not being invisible makes life completely different doesn't it?
Having men open the door for me when they never seemed to see me before. I had an old man jump ahead of me the other day to open the door. He said, "That's pretty heavy. Let me get that." That NEVER would have happened in a MILLION years before. In fact, I don't remember a guy EVER opening a door for me when I was big. Maybe they worried I wouldn't fit through it and it would get akward or something? I don't know.
Having men flirt with me. I was SO embarassed when it happened the first time. It felt like I was cheating on my husband or something. And all the guy did is keep looking in his rearview mirror smiling really big at me. (We were in a line of cars waiting for construction to let us go.) He kept doing it for the entire time - smiling at me in that way like he wants something from me - and I didn't even recognize it for the first couple of minutes. Then I finally got what he was about and actually blushed. I haven't blushed in years.
It's really nice (but sometimes odd too) to find out what we've been missing all this time.
I just realized that I didn't say what I liked best.
I like the new way my husband and kids (and my parents) look at me now. Don't get me wrong for a second: they always loved me and were proud of me even when I was at my heaviest.
But now, they ALL look at me like they really believe that I can do anything. And the greatest part is that I think my kids believe in THEMSELVES more too. (I think because they have seen me do what they had believed was impossible.) When I talk to my kids now, it's kind of like what Susan was saying in that they seem to take me more seriously. I think that's because I have "risen" above what I was in their eyes.
I'm wording that poorly I know. I don't mean to make it sound as though they viewed me as "low" before. My family loved and cherished me even when I weighed 255.4 pounds and would have loved and cherished me (and been proud of my acomplishments) even if I had stayed at 255.4 pounds forever.
But they do look at me noticably different now. (Or maybe it's all in MY mind. Maybe I FEEL as though they look at me differently. I cannot discount that as a possibility. But I do BELIEVE it's not me thinking it: I believe they really do it.)
I like the new way my husband and kids (and my parents) look at me now. Don't get me wrong for a second: they always loved me and were proud of me even when I was at my heaviest.
But now, they ALL look at me like they really believe that I can do anything. And the greatest part is that I think my kids believe in THEMSELVES more too. (I think because they have seen me do what they had believed was impossible.) When I talk to my kids now, it's kind of like what Susan was saying in that they seem to take me more seriously. I think that's because I have "risen" above what I was in their eyes.
I'm wording that poorly I know. I don't mean to make it sound as though they viewed me as "low" before. My family loved and cherished me even when I weighed 255.4 pounds and would have loved and cherished me (and been proud of my acomplishments) even if I had stayed at 255.4 pounds forever.
But they do look at me noticably different now. (Or maybe it's all in MY mind. Maybe I FEEL as though they look at me differently. I cannot discount that as a possibility. But I do BELIEVE it's not me thinking it: I believe they really do it.)
I am going to have to go with you girls and say the attention.... I get SO Much more attention now from people, and I just love it... I am more social with people, more outgoing, and am not scared to just get in a group of my friends and be the lively one of the bumch now where as before I was shy and quiet....
Also, the boys are talking to me now.... I hve a boyfriend now, and have others who are my friends and talk to me at school, and before no boy would talk to me... SERIOUSLY!!!!
and life is going good for me.... Almost done with classes and able to apply for the LPN Program :)
Also, the boys are talking to me now.... I hve a boyfriend now, and have others who are my friends and talk to me at school, and before no boy would talk to me... SERIOUSLY!!!!
and life is going good for me.... Almost done with classes and able to apply for the LPN Program :)
♥ Courtney Coleman †
Gosh, to say my best is so hard. I have had many struggles and do still daily, but I think that my sense of accomplishment makes me happiest.
Every day my husband tells me how proud he is of me, he always told me I was the most beautiful woman in the world, but now sometimes I almost believe him.
I was always very social, and talked to everyone, but now, people talk back and they smile back at me. Every job Ive ever had I was basically paid to smile, as I worked in the public, so I smile all the time, sometimes outta habit. (That sounds sad!!) but now people smile back at me.
Life is so much better, my health is still very poor, but Im thankful for every day, and can only imagine how horrid it would be now if I still weighed 280.
Thanks Wendy, keep the polls coming, I hate to see our board die a miserable death.
LOVE TO ALL OF YOU!!
Rhonda D.
P.S. I cant forget my own private wow moment, the day that I got on my horse from the ground by myself w/o the assistance of a bucket, or getting on the back of the truck. I now just put my foot in that stirrup and get up there!! Im sure the horses are much happier as well since mom doesnt weigh 280 anymore!!!
Every day my husband tells me how proud he is of me, he always told me I was the most beautiful woman in the world, but now sometimes I almost believe him.
I was always very social, and talked to everyone, but now, people talk back and they smile back at me. Every job Ive ever had I was basically paid to smile, as I worked in the public, so I smile all the time, sometimes outta habit. (That sounds sad!!) but now people smile back at me.
Life is so much better, my health is still very poor, but Im thankful for every day, and can only imagine how horrid it would be now if I still weighed 280.
Thanks Wendy, keep the polls coming, I hate to see our board die a miserable death.
LOVE TO ALL OF YOU!!
Rhonda D.
P.S. I cant forget my own private wow moment, the day that I got on my horse from the ground by myself w/o the assistance of a bucket, or getting on the back of the truck. I now just put my foot in that stirrup and get up there!! Im sure the horses are much happier as well since mom doesnt weigh 280 anymore!!!
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