Daily Post--3/15/08

I am more confident. I don't take as much crap as I used to and I find it easier to stand up for myself. There is less of me to hide behind, so to speak.

In many ways I am the same person I was before the surgery, but in some ways I have seen positive improvements. I don't feel as if people are staring at me as much when I walk into a room, resturant, store.... etc. On the same level, as a single women I still don't believe that men see me any differently. Have not been approached, flirted with or been asked out by any man. So in that aspect I still think of myself as a fat women that no man wants anything to do with. Funny how our brains still work and make us believe we are still not worthy of being loved or accepted by the opposite sex. Sally

I'm the same person...

I am a new, improved Jean. My basic beliefs have not changed, but I am more open and energetic now, and that shines through. People are more friendly, and that may be because I am, too. I'm happier, and that results in a better relationship with others. For awhile, as I was losing, I began to get vain, but my daughter put me in my place!! She's the princess in our household, and she didn't let me forget it!! I can't even compare my life two years ago to the life I live today. It is completely different in almost every way, and so I believe it would be impossible to say I'm the same person.