15 years still maintaining 115-120

Ha ha! A picture off!!!!!

A saying said so many times about people who have lost large amounts of weight..."you look like a completely different person"... Sometimes a saying that is an exaggeration.. but...

You look like a completely different person! Thanks for the motivation.

You do look younger! I at times feel like I fit in with everyone as well. It's quite a change. My teen years were pretty awful as well..I was like the second biggest person in the school and Everyone had all the nicknames for me. Was I bullied? I wouldnt call it bullied but the fat jokes just plain ol sucked. Especially when they came from ones who you thought were your friends...At work one Co-worker calls me big man still and Even though I know I am over a 100lbs down it kinda takes me back to my teen years. I know he doesnt mean anything by it though. Plus I am happy and feel the best I have in a very long time.

Al Roker wrote a book about his weight loss surgery. He was in grade school and went to the movies on Saturday. There was a new cartoon about a kid named Fat Albert.

He was afraid to go to school the next week because he figured with his name being Albert, that his new nickname would be Fat Albert.

And that is what the kids were calling him the next week.

School is awful for all of us at times, but especially hard when you weigh too much for your age.

I remember when they did a story about him on the today show and he said that...I felt so bad for him and at the same time I remembered having so many similar experiences like that. Kids are cruel...well..Humans are cruel.

jmk187,

Whether we now or then called it bullying.( NOR does it make it acceptable or right.) That is what it was and is when people are used as on going jokes. I too was one of second biggest in the class. My twin was second Boy and i was second girl.all of were surrounded by beanpoles.

Big man or Big ONE... can have other implications rather than weight... sometimes it means the one who solves the problems, whom others depend on to fix things. If He doesn't mean anything about weight - change your thinking to ; "you are the problem solver !"..

. Being happy in your weight loss is THE real key. Don't allow anyone to rain on YOUR parade either intentionally or not.dh

I would talk to the person who calls you "big man". If I were you I would stop one day and ask him why does he do that? Maybe he forgot your name and feels silly to ask you again? Some people have a horrible memory for names and faces - I can memorize a number, or a few numbers, but names? or faces? I have the biggest challenge to remember that.

If that bothered me, I would stop and ask the guy to use your name, that you prefer that... The nick names are OK in school.. as adults we can have our own identity aka "names".

Good job. You just look more confident, assured and happy. I think all of us, although smiling in our before pics, had a little sadness in our health and how we look. We just did not fit in. Very encouraging to know that we can be 10, 15 years out and still keep to the program as our way of life. I'm 5 years out, and although I haven't really gained-maybe, 5 lbs gained and loss here and there, but for the most part maintained, I've also never really reached my low goal, I would still have about 20-25 lbs to go. So the tool did it's job, I just haven't done mine! But thank you, it's very encouraging as are the many veterans on this forum.

Amazing what I learn weekly! And humbling that I still haven't got this yet!? But I keep trying!

Willie, Keep on plugging at it. add small sets of exercise thru the day., first thing and last thing of the day are minimum..... It is the little things that add up to continuing weight loss. cutting the carbs by servings a day./ or by 10-15 grams. The tool still works. our body becomes more efficient with less input after a couple of years.. so we have to work smarter to allow it becoming set in metabolism stuck modes... 24 years... out from an early wls no longer done.Tool still works! You can do it. later dh