So I'm going to try and make this sound as humble as possible, I do not mean for it to be a bragfest. I say it in practically every post I make these days, I still truly and honestly do not feel skinny. My eyes and mind still see and think of myself as a chubby 183lb person. Throughout the whole weight loss phase, I had people tell me I "look good, keep it up!" and "you're getting in such good shape." All compliments I appreciated, but they were from friends who knew me as a large person and were aware of my weight loss progress.
Well recently I have been making some friends that have only known the smaller me, they don't even know that a few months ago, I was 50+lbs larger. And for some reason, I receive their compliments and comments in an entirely different way.
Here are just a few that I've gotten in about the last week.
- A very fit guy in my class and I were discussing body types, and I called myself thick/muscular, and he said "I hate to break it to you, but you're tiny"
- My thin coworker who just started working a few weeks ago and I were talking about eating, and she said "you and I are both little, so we don't eat as much."
- A guy I met last week gave me a hug and said "wow, you're so skinny!" Later in the night, him and his friends were joking about how they wouldn't want to meet me in a dark alley and he said "she weighs what? 125lbs soaking wet?" And I proudly said that I was 132lbs that morning, haha.
Those are just some examples. It's so strange to me, and I have a hard time explaining why these comments are strange to me, lol. I don't recognize myself as tiny, little, skinny, etc, but here are people who have no reason or prompt to call me such words other than their own observation. And it's an unskewed observation since they never knew me when I was bigger.
Again, I hope this post doesn't sound too boastful, that's not my intention. I don't fish around for compliments, and none of these were really compliments anyways, these people were just stating their observation about me. I guess I'm just amazed everyday by how different the world is as a skinny person. People treat you entirely different. And I am still not a skinny person in my head, so I'm having a hard time relating to the skinny people club, lol.