Some people who see me say nothing which is just fine. Others that run into me tell me how wonderful I look and I get lots of compliments on how I dress now. It's nice. I enjoy it. Still others say to me things like .." What up skinny or How is it going slim?" Which of course makes me just cringe because being skinny is the last thing I want to be in this world. I know it is just a figure of speech or term of endearment so no biggie. It still odd because before of course they would never dare say "What up fatty?" Why do they think "What up Skinny" is an OK thing? Society really is so twisted. Ok.. whatever. I'm over it. That will never change.
So those are not that big of a deal but I have had some more drastic reactions this week. One guy who is kind of weird and creepy anyway was standing with me while we were waiting to get into the conference room for a meeting. Granted he says weird stuff all the time and looks like a child molester so this shouldn't suprise me. Ok.. back to the story - So several of my other co-workers were around including some of the Sr VP's and executive staff. We are all chatting away about the latest success of the software install that was just done for our Radiology department. Out of the blue Mr. Creepy guy starts in on me. He prefaces his comment with "Please don't take this the wrong way..." So of course he now has my attention and has also gained the attention of everyone else around us. They all turn there heads towards him and everyone stops talking. He then says, "You look absolutely stunning these days. Absolutely amazing. (He raises his voice even higher) How much weight have you lost?" He keeps going on and on and on. You know privately if he said that to me it wouldn't be a huge deal but in this situation it was so inappropriate. I politely said thank you and left it at that. He continued to go on and on and I became really uncomfortable as did the people around us. My friend John just stands there shaking his head and laughing under his breath because this guy is just a nut case all the time.
So next situation. I'm walking down the hall and another co-worker says hi to me. She doesn't just look me in the eye and say hi. She looks me up and down from head to toe. Not just once but several times. I'm wondering if maybe I am just imaging this. Am I being really self-consious now or something? Maybe I am the one that is paranoid.
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The final situation is a girl at work who I really bonded with prior to losing weight now no longer seems comfortable around me at all. I suspect it is because she is having a hard time dealing with her own obesity issues. We use to talk all of the time and had a lot of heart to hearts about it. Talked about our struggles with diets, working out, etc. Now she just seems really short with me the last few weeks. All her communications is via email when before she always picked up the phone. I had a meeting with her yesterday and she hardly could make eye contact when we were sitting directly across from one another for an hour.
Again, maybe I am the one that is paranoid and its all in my head. Anyone else ever go through anything like this?
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