The Moment...
The best advice I try to follow myself is not to wait until I'm not the "fat guy". I try to live each day the best I can.. as if it may be my last. I'll get where I want to be. Things get better every day.
Max wt. 500+ WLS workshop 4/6/09 440 Surgery 9/21/09 324 9/21/10 218
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It won't be long and you will be in a situation where "skinny people" make coments to you about the "fat guy over there". It is very hard to deal with knowing how they are treating and talking about the fat guy when it was you 1 year ago. It really opens your eyes, then you pull out your IPOD and show them a picture of "fat you" and watch them GULP. That is when it feels good.
Robert
I think for me, it is the fact that I don't have to go to the big and tall catalogs or racks for clothes. I've gone from 50 waist to 40 ... 18 neck to 16 ... 54 sport coat to 44S ... 2XL to L (and some L shirts are getting a little loose around the collar!). That said, a clothing store owner friend of mine once told me that the only person who knows the size number in your shirt or slacks is you. But it was nice to be able to create a Christmas list for wife adn kids and say "large, please".
I also get affirmation when people who haven't seen me for a while either don't recognize me (it's fun me to have them recognize my voice and then see their eyes go wide!!!!!) and/or comment about how I look: marvelous - fantastic - wonderful - great - (fill in the superlative here).
Yet I still have to caution myself that I can turn back into the fat guy. This surgical tool is too important for me to screw it up. I do allow that to stay in the back of my mind for motivational purposes, but I don't dwell on it.
I also get affirmation when people who haven't seen me for a while either don't recognize me (it's fun me to have them recognize my voice and then see their eyes go wide!!!!!) and/or comment about how I look: marvelous - fantastic - wonderful - great - (fill in the superlative here).
Yet I still have to caution myself that I can turn back into the fat guy. This surgical tool is too important for me to screw it up. I do allow that to stay in the back of my mind for motivational purposes, but I don't dwell on it.
Onward and DOWNward,
Brian Burke - Wellington OH
Brian Burke - Wellington OH
I guess we all had the "moment"..but the feeling is always the same...."wow"... (Almost as good as sex... but sex is NOW BETTER...TOO)
I was always the "fat guy" and always getting to odd looks from everyone...the whispering voices as you pass by.... but one learns to live with it... but now.... nothing?
I too went from a pushing 6X to now a really loose 2x...it feels great but like everyone I still look in the mirror a I see the fat guy....just a lot less of him.....
I was always the "fat guy" and always getting to odd looks from everyone...the whispering voices as you pass by.... but one learns to live with it... but now.... nothing?
I too went from a pushing 6X to now a really loose 2x...it feels great but like everyone I still look in the mirror a I see the fat guy....just a lot less of him.....
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