Eating with people who didn't know you before

Shortly after I reached my goal weight, I transferred to a new job site where nobody had known me when I was fat.  There are three of us who go out to lunch together almost every day, and we are good friends and really enjoy eating together.  One thing that constantly makes me go "hmmm" is that at least once or twice a week, one of them will say something like, "Oh, MLK, I wish I had your discipline!  Look at how little you eat!" 

It kind of freaks me out because they see me as this healthy, gym-going, light-eating thin person, which is STILL not really the idea of myself I have in my head even though that it totally who I am now!  I usually just laugh and say "I just don't have a very big appetite," and change the subject, but I kind of feel like a fraud, you know?

Anybody else get these comments?  Am I the only one who feels weird about it?

I say embrace it.  Use their comments to incorporate those beliefs about yourself.  I still have body image issues (my mental picture of myself doesn't match the reality). But by looking in a mirror, seeing myself in photos, I'm slowly developing a new internal picture.  

You have a nice situation, with new people who only know the new you - I think it's an opportunity to build a new self image from their comments.

Ditto, go with it. if they see you as a healthy gym going person its because you ARE that person. And its ok to say at lunch that yeah it takes some discipline (which it does) but that you feel better if you watch what you eat.

my friends who know about my surgery comment about what great discipline i have. they don't know about the foamies and stuff that will happen if i pig out.

so don't feel like a fraud. you are the real deal!! love it!!   diane

Count yourself lucky. The people I eat lunch with give me a hard time for how little I eat. Even after I told them about the surgery (which I don't think they really comprehended).