Question:
What has been the funniest thing about losing weight?

I had an adventure today...the 25 year old, blond, buff kitchen remodeling guy came 45 minutes early today and caught me in the shower. I jumped out, wrapped a bath towel around me (which now fits all the way around, WOO HOO!) and went to the door. I asked him to give me five minutes to throw some clothes on and was wondering why he kept looking up. In my bedroom, I discovered the reason. With the mastopexy (breast reduction), what used to be my droopy boobs are much higher now. What used to cover my boobs when I wrapped a towel around me, now left both my nipples half exposed! YIKES! I have become a cliche! A "tadpolling" middle-aged old maid, flirting with the repairman! And it was a TOTAL accident, I SWEAR!!!! Fortunately, it couldn't have been too sexy...with the handing skin, it looks like I have 4 huge scrotal sacks on my arms. I will be soooo glad when THAT surgical procedure is over with! Anyone else got a story of irony or humor about the consequences of losing weight?    — merri B. (posted on August 14, 2002)


August 14, 2002
Hi that is so funny, and its ok to flirt... im not sure i have a funny story but its a true one. i was at work and covering the front desk, there is a mirror on the wall i was standing up going through the mail and looked up for a minute and of course saw myself and starteld myself, thinking it was someone else standing behind me. well low and behold it was me in a thinner body, thinner face. I felt stupid for not recognizing my self but then thought owe well it happens to the best of us!!!!!
   — Deanna Wise

August 14, 2002
A similar thing happened to me Deanna. I was walking towards a plate glass window looking at all the people's reflection. I was trying to find myself. I couldn't find my relflection. I was walking closer and closer and was getting really perturbed, then realized the average sized woman looking at me...was ME!! It was truly surreal. I also get all heated up and angry talking about weight related issues and folks pat me on the shoulder and tell me it doesn't pertain to me (like charging more for airline seats if your over 250...grrr...I still make statements like If they try to weigh my fat a@# blah blah blah.....)Anywho, lifes been pretty interesting lately...I'm enjoying every minute of it. -Kim open RNY 7/17/01 -122
   — KimBo36

August 14, 2002
hiya, well it's kinda funny ... i hadn't seen my pcp in like 6, 7 months and i went to his office for a medical exam for a new job. i walked past him and said, "hiya dr. a..", he looked at me and said, "hello" but kind of distracted/distant...anyhoo when my exam was over (was not with him but the nurse practictioner)i was standing in the hallway and he came out of an exam room, stared at me and finally said, "whoa, kate!! i didn't even recognize you earlier!! you're a mere shadow of your former self" DIDN'T RECOGNIZE ME?? he's been my pcp for almost 13 years! that made my day! lol
   — jkb

August 14, 2002
Merri, that is too funny! Buff dude checkin' out the boobs! I can't think of anything off hand, but I have a friend in my support group that told a funny story. She was seeing the surgeon and asked him to feel a lump that she had recently found in her breast. He examined her, feeling her breast, and when she pointed out the 'mass', he couldn't help but start laughing. It was a rib!
   — Cheri M.

August 14, 2002
Oh, and Merri, get a new pic up already, would ya?
   — Cheri M.

August 14, 2002
I am pre-op myself, so I don't have a story as of yet. But my mother had WLS and laughs everytime she tells this one: she was sitting on the edge of her bed one day to put on her shoes. She went to heave herself forward (like she always did to get past her huge stomach) and fell completely off the bed!
   — Susan L.

August 14, 2002
This isn't WLS related, but it's funny. In 1988, I became a mom. That summer in MN was the hottest in decades, along with record-breaking drought. We didn't have central AC. I was 3 weeks post-partum, c-section, and nursing. My newborn nursed every hour or so during the day, plus about 5 times during the night. I was exhausted and HOT all the time. I wasn't wearing a shirt, because I was nursing and it was so hot. The doorbell rang. I had a screaming, hungry newborn in my arms. I was so dead-tired and absent-minded that I opened the door. Standing in front of me were two well dressed religious solicitors, a man and a woman. I said, "I'm sorry, I just had a baby and i can't talk to anyone." The man's facial expression was exquisite. He was glazed and gaped! I shut the door and then realized that I had just answered the door topless.
   — Nancy G.

August 15, 2002
I actually have 2 that I find amusing. The first is I went to a club with my DH that he frequents often (I usually stay home with the kids) and the next day at work several of his co workers asked him who the lady he was there with and why, they didn't realize it was me. I even had people tell me that they thought he was there with another woman. Then about a month ago I started a new job at the factory where he works and we were walking in together one morning when this guy spoke to us and walked with us to our departments, well later in the morning this same guy went to my DH and asked him if I worked in his department and my DH said no she works in SF, so the guy says "well I'm going to go over there and meet her", my DH tells this man that I was his wife and the guy argues with him telling him he was lying because he knew his wife and she was heavy. Mike proceded to tell the man that I was and I had had surgery and the guy was mortified. Needless to say my wedding ring is now sized to fit my finger(LOL)
   — Lynda T.

August 15, 2002
That is too funny!!!! I have a bunch, but I will tell you what happened to me with my 3 year old. I was getting ready for work, and I went to finish drying off with the towel, I had already lost a bunch of weight so the skin on my legs is kinda loose, so as I was drying off, my legs start to make a clapping sound and my daughter looks at me so confuse as to how are you clapping and your hands are not moving, so she had to ask, "Mommy, why are you clapping?" The only thing I could do was laugh, I didn't know how to explain to her what, why, and where the noise was comming from.
   — davia.p

August 16, 2002
This is really embarrassing but you guys are the only ones that would understand......first, keep in mind that this happened around my mother, who is 80 and hard of hearing....Anyway, I was at my Mom's and while visiting, I had a "bit of gas", actually a rather huge attack of gas, but I figured she couldn't hear it so anyway, I let it go. (It seemed to echo on and on and on.) She got a puzzled look on her face and so I said "Excuse me" and she goes "Was that you???? I thought someone started up a weed-eater!" Needless to say, now I completely remove myself away from anyone if I think I may have a gas attack.
   — lallen454z




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