I’m a pretty outgoing person, but I feel like my weight has always held me back. In high school I was never the popular girl everyone wanted to be friends with. I was friendly, yes, but I was never that girl. I’ve come to terms with that though and I’m moving on.
Honestly, when you lose weight, people start to notice you. It’s true, people in the street, people in the grocery store, even people in class. Maybe it’s because I’m changing too, I don’t know, but I like being noticed. I like not instantly being judged for my weight and what I look like. Granted, I’m not skinny by any means, but I feel like this 40 pound weight loss has done me a world of good. I still have every intention of losing this last 25 pounds though. God, I feel like I’ve been saying that for months now.
Anyways, this long post is to say that I made myself proud today. A girl I’ve been talking to in class lately invited me out with her roommates to one forty, a fancy bar down the road from me. I am so nervous, but so excited to meet new people and have them know me for who I am now, not for the overweight girl I used to be.
I hear these words ringing true for me as well. word. for. word. The guys that called me “fatso” and “porky” in hgh school were the same guys that asked me out after I lost all of my weight. In my situation, I loved the feeling of telling them to “shove it”. If I wasn’t good enough for them when I was overweight, they were definitely not good enough for me as a thin woman. Congrats to you on all of the weight you have lost!! you look great.
