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05-25-2008, 05:20 AM
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| Whipper Snapper  Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: illinois
Posts: 46
Weight Statistics jan 28 2008 Surgery Date:
4' 11"
Height:
222 lb Start Weight:
132 lb Current Weight:
120 lb Goal Weight:
90 lb Weight Loss:
12 lb Lb Left to Lose:
40.5405405405 % % Lost:
1 year Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 44.8336684861 BMI Start:
26.6578569377 BMI Current:
24.2344153979 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass |  not skinny
I am so tired of people calling me skinny at work. I hear it at least 20 times a day.I am by know means even thin yet. I have made good progress but still huge. I just say thanks and move on but it really bugs me. Why cant they just say I look nice or something instead of your skinny or a bone?
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05-25-2008, 06:13 AM
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(((((HUGS))))) Just as it is hard to see who you are becoming, it probably is hard for the people around you to get used to the melting you, since they probably haven't seen you at the size you are now in a long time, if not ever.
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05-25-2008, 06:59 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Floyd County Virginia
Posts: 3,614
Blog Entries: 1 Weight Statistics September 19th 2007 Start Date:
September 19th 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 10"
Height:
363 lb Start Weight:
211 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
152 lb Weight Loss:
46 lb Lb Left to Lose:
41.8732782369 % % Lost:
12/31/09 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 52.0793877551 BMI Start:
30.2720408163 BMI Current:
23.6724489796 BMI Goal:
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I agree with DOC. If it bothers you so bad you might have to tell them.
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05-25-2008, 09:39 AM
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| WLS Master Guru  Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: No. Los Angeles County, CA
Posts: 948
Weight Statistics 4.29.08 RNY Surgery Date:
5' 8"
Height:
301 lb Start Weight:
226 lb Current Weight:
170 lb Goal Weight:
75 lb Weight Loss:
56 lb Lb Left to Lose:
24.9169435216 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 45.7618944637 BMI Start:
34.3594290657 BMI Current:
25.8455882353 BMI Goal:
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Funny you bring this up. I have thought of this a lot since my introduction to the concept of WLS. In my conventional dieting history, I have come down to "insurance chart normal" weight twice in my life (both in my 20s) and it was when people were calling me skinny and "too thin" that, unconsciously of course, I began to eat again. My new tool won't totally let me have that option this time.  We could try to either not acknowledge the comment, or change the subject ("How are YOU today? LOVE your shoes...are they new? How is that divorce going for you?") or even to look frustrated or disturbed when we get them, they may get a hint. I know if I/we can let it go for a year the comments will pass and people will forget the old us. My 2 cents...your mileage may vary.
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05-25-2008, 10:14 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Mount Vernon, NY
Posts: 7,741
Weight Statistics 4/1/07 Start Date:
4/19/07 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
258 lb Start Weight:
158 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
100 lb Weight Loss:
-7 lb Lb Left to Lose:
38.7596899225 % % Lost:
04/19/2008 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 38.0957781979 BMI Start:
23.3299726948 BMI Current:
24.36357908 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass  |
its funny how others perceive us...it takes a long time for what we see in the mirror to sink in. if it makes you uncomfy, speak on it. just remember, while the number 58 may not seem like all that much lost to you, 58 lbs lost LOOKS much different. it takes some adjusting to on both ends. you are doing fabulous! 
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05-25-2008, 10:25 AM
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| Big Loser  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: North Royalton, Ohio
Posts: 187
Weight Statistics June 4, 2008 Surgery Date:
5' 1"
Height:
214 lb Start Weight:
186 lb Current Weight:
125 lb Goal Weight:
28 lb Weight Loss:
61 lb Lb Left to Lose:
13.0841121495 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 40.4305294276 BMI Start:
35.1405536146 BMI Current:
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Just keep in mind that these people mean well... They have NO ill intention when saying you look so skinny. Most people would LOVE to hear it but to a WLS patient, it might be a different situation. I'm sure they don't mean to piss you off or hurt your feelings. They're complimenting you and don't mean to make you mad. If it bothers you enough, speak up... I, personally, don't think I would in that situation. If you called me out on my calling you skinny, I know I'd back off and probably NEVER compliment you again in any way, shape, or form. "The last time I complimented her and called her skinny, she got mad at me.".... I'd rather keep hearing the compliments because compliments would give me momentum to keep on workin'. I don't want to lose those. Good luck!
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05-30-2008, 08:25 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: May 2007 Location: minnesota
Posts: 4,671
Weight Statistics july 21, 2007 Start Date:
august 17, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
339 lb Start Weight:
177 lb Current Weight:
160 lb Goal Weight:
162 lb Weight Loss:
17 lb Lb Left to Lose:
47.7876106195 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 54.7100550964 BMI Start:
28.5654269972 BMI Current:
25.8218549128 BMI Goal:
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i agree they do mean well...maybe they do not relize this bothers you, i also hear this all the time and have even been nicknamed tiny by a good friend of mine, he never calls me by name anymore...lol anyhow if u feel comfortable maybe u should say something i know at times i just wish ppl would stop but personally i couldnt say anything
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05-30-2008, 09:14 AM
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| WLS Master Guru  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Cottondale Alabama
Posts: 578
Weight Statistics 12-19-07 Surgery Date:
5' 3"
Height:
228 lb Start Weight:
144 lb Current Weight:
140 lb Goal Weight:
84 lb Weight Loss:
4 lb Lb Left to Lose:
36.8421052632 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index 40.3839758125 BMI Start:
25.5056689342 BMI Current:
24.7971781305 BMI Goal:
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I agree....they are trying to compliment you and don't intend to make you "mad". I think they run out of things to say and calling us "skinny" is their way of acknowledging our success. They probably wish they could drop the lbs as fast as we have. I just usually say "yep, melting away" or "thanks". As for my looking at myself, I have days that I look in the mirror and think I am still so fat! And other days that I look in the mirror and say WOW look how skinny I am getting. It's a mind thing and on the fat days I have to remind myself what size I am now wearing as opposed to what I wore before. Anyway, 58lbs is AWESOME......you have done a wonderful job.
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05-30-2008, 02:43 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: North Dakota
Posts: 2,067
Weight Statistics June 11,2007, lost 36 Lb. before surgery Start Date:
September 10, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 5"
Height:
373 lb Start Weight:
212 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
161 lb Weight Loss:
47 lb Lb Left to Lose:
43.163538874 % % Lost:
2 years Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 62.0636686391 BMI Start:
35.2747928994 BMI Current:
27.4544378698 BMI Goal:
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OH HECK, they can call me skinny all the time. I have been skinny so little in my lifetime, becasue I was heavy most of my life. I was a thin child up to about the first grade and then I started to gain weight and when I graduated I was very heavy. Then I was off the college and then I lost all the weight and my lowest weight when I was a bridemaid to my sisters wedding I weighted 145 pounds and when I got married a few months later, I weighted 160 pounds. As every child came along I gained more and more weight, until I hit my all time high of 384 pounds. It took the surgery to get my weight back under control and I am going to use my tool with every ounce of my will power. Even what I weigh now my husband call me bony and that I am getting skinny and I told him I have a long ways to go yet till I am skinny and when he says that I am bony, I tell him that I am going to get alot boneier yet till I am done losing weight. So anyone can call me skinny!!!!
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05-30-2008, 02:51 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Alabama
Posts: 2,703
Weight Statistics 9/28/07 Start Date:
9/28/07 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
279 lb Start Weight:
189 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
90 lb Weight Loss:
24 lb Lb Left to Lose:
32.2580645161 % % Lost:
18 months Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 45.0268595041 BMI Start:
30.5020661157 BMI Current:
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Call me skinny anytime!!!
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