they're starting to worry about me...woot woot!

 So as you know I am within ten pounds of my final final goal...and yesterday I found out from a good friend that some of the women in the community we live in are "worried about my weight loss"...
they think "I'm getting too thin"....at first I was mad that they were talking about me and then I thought..wait a minute.....this means I"m almost to goal....and I am very happy....so there you have it...that's called turning a negative into a positive...so when you hear this you will know you are heading in the right direction and the more they chatter the closer you are to goal...I was out to dinner with a very lean friend and I turned to her and said " do people ever say to you that you are too thin or that they are worried about you?" " No" she said...and I said " there you have it" If you have never been heavy but just always lean people never worry about your weight...but if you're heavy and you start to change in people's perception and no don't look the way they expect you to look...they freak out...change is disconcerting for everyone...anyhow that's one of my new barometers for success!!!...Love my sleeve...SEAVIEW

Amen! You're spot on.

--gina

I agree, I am also within 10# of my goal now and more and more people are calling me skinny.  I am not skinny, I am at the high end of a normal BMI, they are just used to seeing me heavy.  One skinny person even called me gaunt which I think was an underhanded insult.  And she told me not to lose any more weight.  I am tall which makes one look thinner I suppose.  I think people can get too thin though and it is unhealthy.  I know that will never happen to me, LOL!
Sandi

And there you have it!  Congratulations on the lovely compliment!  :)

Yep, I got the "you have anorexic arms" comment. At first I got mad too but then said, hey...I'm there...they just don't know me thin yet. Then the next week that gal who said the comment started dieting and said she wanted to be thin like me.... who me?? 

Congrats on the compliment...tell them to keep it coming....

Way cool! You have hit it right on the head. People just aren't used to seeing you thinner. They'll get used to it.

Congrats!

I would take it as a compliment.  After a while they won't remember you as being as heavy as you were unless they see a pre WLS picture.  I have co-workers now that say I don't remember you being that big.... well I was.
Linda