I am "small" to new people :) (Share your stories too!)

It's so weird....I was at a meeting with colleagues and we were talking about working out for whatever reason and we all joked that we have six-packs under our fat. One said, "you don't have much fat to speak of so you can't laugh, Shannon!"

First time in my life I've heard THAT.

I recently moved to a new state, new job, new people. They all didn't know me before and it's funny to me to hear them say that I look skinny, toned, fit.... Sometimes I just snicker and say thank you and walk away happy

sure have a couple of times...

When I pick up jeans in "my size" I always think...no way am I gonna fit in those...

Guess what I do....even the size 6's that I never thought I would see...

Or when my aunt said to my husband at Christmas..."she's half the woman you married" which is true...I went from a size 16 to an 8 at that point...literally half my size...gone.

I'm getting compliments and comments, but I'm just now noticing changes myself (and they're small to me). It makes me wonder how big I really was! lol! :laugh:

When I went in to try on jeans and told the sales associate the last time I checked I was a size 20. Now I'm a size 4.

I have some friends who are heavier than me, and they used to get irritated that I would call myself a 'fat kid.' Then we went to Waffle House..and they no longer doubt me.

I'm at my lowest weight ever now, and my boyfriend (who only knew me ten pounds ago- and I was still small) complimented me once on how he liked being with such an athletic, hard-bodied girl. Hardbody...huh...what? :huh:

The biggest shock is that I still *feel* fat. Sometimes I'll take pictures with friends who I envy for being so tiny and trim...and then when I look at the picture, I realize I'm smaller than them!! :noway:

I'm not sure I'll ever get used to it. Even when I was a teenager, I was slightly above average weight. I've been overweight since I was 19, and spent two years obese. I lost 100 lbs. When people who know me point it out, I just shrug it off. Assume they're being nice, encouraging me, or whatever.

But when I was in the hospital a few weeks ago (gallstones, unfortunately), I was sent to get an ultrasound. The nurse started setting me up and checked my file. Apparently, there had been a mix up. She actually said I was way too small to be the woman she thought I was. That was the first time I ever heard "small" in reference to me. It felt strange.

When people guess my weight, they normally guess me at 20 pounds less than I am! It's spectacular! Someone referred to me as 'tiny' a few times, which is odd to me. I wore a form fitting shirt and one of my male friends couldn't get over how much better I looked. I loved it!

I have some friends who are heavier than me, and they used to get irritated that I would call myself a 'fat kid.' Then we went to Waffle House..and they no longer doubt me.

I'm at my lowest weight ever now, and my boyfriend (who only knew me ten pounds ago- and I was still small) complimented me once on how he liked being with such an athletic, hard-bodied girl. Hardbody...huh...what? :huh:

The biggest shock is that I still *feel* fat. Sometimes I'll take pictures with friends who I envy for being so tiny and trim...and then when I look at the picture, I realize I'm smaller than them!! :noway:

I hope one day I can understand that I'm no longer obese, but I feel you! I'm not at my goal yet, but I have a feeling that even when I am, I still need to adjust to it!

I'm not "small" yet, but I did have an odd moment when I posted a new Facebook profile picture recently. My old one was of me 40 lbs heavier. I got comments on the new one saying I must feel lucky to have such defined cheekbones... and I thought "I have cheekbones???"

Sure enough, they're juuuuust starting to be visible under my (still pretty fat) cheeks. Who knows--maybe I even have a jaw somewhere under there, waiting to come out!

At my job some young 20-something guys came in, very average sized dudes a little taller than me. They were working for a guy who buys products from the company I work for and they were talking about their weight. All of them were around the same as my current weight (as a 5'8" woman of course I'm still overweight) like 185-205 and one of them said 193 which was my weight at the time and I was like "oh me too" and they looked kind of surprised that I'd openly admit that but I added "For me that's awesome because I used to weigh 300" and they were just like "Seriously??!" and they seemed very surprised.

Also, last year when I'd lost around 20 lb on this site, I temporarily did some work at a law firm located in a house over 100 years old and there was a tenant in the upstairs of the house who was about the same size I'd been at my heaviest (65 lb heavier than I was at the time) and my coworkers were talking about how huge she was and how she probably would die soon from all of her health issues etc. I was like, "Naw not necessarily you guys...I was that big and I didn't have x, y, or z" they did not know what in the world to say!

Actually on another thread, the poster mentions her "tiny" size 8 friend. I'm thinking I'm a size 8 and I never would consider myself tiny.

I was having a conversation with people at work about food. I said something about food and finished with."trust me, i'm a fat kid". The girl sitting next to me (who never really saw me heavy), kinda tilted her head to the side quizically and said, "you're not fat".

It felt good to hear it but i shed a little tear because my credibility as a fat kid is gone.

Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book called Outliers where he says that it takes at least 10,000 hours of doing something before you can become an expert. Well, i've logged well over 10,000 hours so i'm an expert on being fat and people have to listen..lol

I have a similar experience... I was talking about some of my bad eating habits and why I "got fat" only to have people stare at me mouths agape going "wtf are you talking about your not fat!" You are right though, you totally lose your credibility when you are no longer fat!

I was hanging out with some of my Derby friends and they were saying that most people get Large size pads. I mentioned that all my pads were medium, and they were like well you are pretty small. I think they must have thought I was crazy because I was like "I AM?????"

Seriously I have no concept of my size anymore!

Bump!

I lost a little over 20 lbs last year. I wasn't really over weight, but I couldn't use the "my clothes shrunk" excuse any more and I had to do something about it. (Back on here as the scales have started to go back up). I got comments at work (with an apology because I work for two men and he didn't think it was appropriate to comment on my weight loss!), but wasn't really getting comments at church, until I bought a new dress for the ladies Christmas banquet. It was a nice slim fitting dress, that I never would have gotten away with before. That's when I starting getting comments and asking what I did!

Edit: I know you can only see the very top portion, but I'm wearing said dress in my profile picture.