People watching you eat....!

Went to my husband's office Christmas party last night and his boss as a little too "fascinated" about my wls.  She even asked me, "Is there anything you can eat here?"  For goodness sake, it was a steak restaurant.  Duh!  Don't they realize that wls patients still eat real food?  It made me a little uncomfortable but I'm sure she was just being kind.

I do kind of feel like a science project sometimes.  And, yes, sometimes I do eat a bit of dessert if it's a special occasion like last night.  I say, back off peeps! 

I know this post is kinda like Rosie's and  Thomas is right!  Fly your "freak flag" proudly!  The success we have all enjoyed speaks for itself!

I have a standard answer for that.  When asked if I can eat anything, I try to look VERY scared and disappointed, and tell them bc of my rearranged innards, I can only eat peanut butter covered pygmies with a side of pineapple and pimentos.  I can't tell you how many times I have been asked if it had to be low sugar peanut butter..dear gawd! 

I do enjoy when folks freak out seeing me eat.  i will be 5 yrs out in April, am quite active, and pretty much eat what I want to, but prefer low carb, high protein.  I, however, have been known to suck the filling out of a cream donut from across the room using nothing but telepathy and my mad inhalation skills.  The food police follow me around social events, still doubting that my weight loss is solid, not static and destined to return.  I toy with them, raising some demonically WRONG food to my lips, putting it down, doing it again, setting it on the plate.  I swear it is better than any network cliffhanger during sweeps week...will she eat it?  Will her butt spontaneously explode?  Hee hee..yeah, I am evil, and LOVE it, lol

Oh, about that freak flag thing...HELL YES!!!!!!!!!!!!  Let it flap in the breeze baby, mine is!  (Oh wait, that is a batwing...damn...giggle)

OH my word!!!!  I love the picking it up and putting it down thing!!!  I have got to try that at Christmas!!! LOL!!!

Janice - you are one of the funniest damn people I've ever read!  I love they telepathy with mad inhalation skills!  Where do you come up with this stuff!  You crack me up!!!  Thanks! 

It is a sick, warped talent I seemed to have developed.  Frankly, i think it is just brain damage incurred from years of ingesting stale Twinkies.  Thank you, thank you...I'll be here until Thursday..try the veal...

I love your sick, warped sense of humor...probably because we must be TWINS!!  LOL

It is funny that GLITTERGAL started this thread considering the HELL she gave me the first time we went out to eat prior to her surgery!!  Anna and I were LAB RATS for Glitter & Happycat!!!!  Talk abou****ching us eat!!  OH MY GAWD!!

You need to get your skinny A$$ to Oklahoma girl!!!  We have some serious partying to do!!!

Ruth

Ruth...my Sistah in looking for da fine Mistahs...

I'm trying to get my arse up there!!  REALLY!  LOL  I was just in Weatherford for Thanksgiving, and the kids and and I are going back up for Christmas for about 2 weeks.  I can't wait to get there, meet you, and learn to be all proper and a good girl.  Oh, wait...I forgot who I am talking to!  Giggle...

  Kim - Fly that flag high!  I know what you mean, though... it took my boss about 3 months before he realized that we could go out to lunch pretty much anywhere and I would find something to eat.  I still notice my co-workers or customers staring at my portions and the size of my bites when I eat with them... Generally I just ignore it. 

I just keep telling myself they are staring because they're jealous of all the positive changes - and then when I finish eating (with a half plate of food or more left behind) I still have plenty of time to stare back at them as they finish every last bite and moan miserably!  

John

PS - good to have you back - even though I'm jealous of your trip!

Edited to add:  OMG - Janice - you are so wonderfully evil!  I may try that pick up and put down thing over the holidays!  Thanks for the idea! 

I have a dear friend who had the lap band 5 years ago, and I noticed she had problems eating in public and I've worked really hard not to.  What's funny, at a recent dinner, I didn't even tell people-and afterward, found out one of the other girls had a lap band too....LOL.  I suspected, because like me, she dunked everything in the gravy, but also, like me, she took "normal" portions, then ate what she wanted to and left the rest...when she began talking about what she could/couldn't eat, I joined the conversation and "came out"....

I have to say, men are soooooo much easier to eat with than women-men couldn't care less what is on someone else's plate.

My mantra for the holidays is "Not going to talk about it now" because nothing ruins a good cookie quicker than talking about how many calories, etc.....If I eat my protein first (and an honorable amount of it) I can indulge in a few bites of dessert.......OH, PARDON ME-that doesn't work for you?  Well, whip out your checkbook and you too can have a tiny tummy.  I paid a huge chunk of change for the ability to eat and be happy with a few bites, and I don't want someone messing up my enjoyment by talking about calories, etc.

Honestly Glitter, the magic of WLS is not our cute little bottoms, it's the ability to eat and be satisfied with a smaller amount.  Flaunt it girl, flaunt it! 

I was about to go off on my Mom for this very thing.  If I heard "can you eat that?" one more time I thought I was going to scream!!!