I'm wondering if I'm the only one feeling this way....

I've actually got two questions. First, it took me a long time to accept the fact that I do in fact look different now after losing 160 pounds in the past nine months, but what bothers me is when people don't recognize me. I thought before the surgery that it would be really great to be unrecognizable, but the truth is it bugs me and makes me think that people only could recognize me before because of all the space I took up. Is anyone else freaked out when people they know, but haven't seen in awhile don't recognize them? How do you handle it? Second question - Is anyone else now horrified by pictures of their former self? I can't even bring myself to look at them and it makes me kind of nauseous to think that I let myself get that bad. Will this feeling eventually pass? Any thoughts?

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