Getting called names!

It's quite funny really, people have started calling me names ....

.... like Slim Jim and Skinny Mallinkey!

Good luck with your weight loss journeys.

[Rawhide]

What fantastic nicknames!

[Zest Healthy BMI]

Fantastic. It's great that they are noticing your new slim frame.

[SVR28]

That's brilliant!

[carbjunkie]

You've earned every one of those nicknames, Doikosp and I wish it were me. My current nickname is lardyass :>(

[legs2013]

what a confidence that must be for you..

[jane010669]

Oh well done, that is lovely. It is so nice when people can see all your hard work. I get mixed comments some lovely ones. But the others have started ooo your too thin and watching everything I eat., I can tell people are just waiting for me to put it all on again.

[Hidden in reply to jane010669]

Hi jane010669,

I sneakily suspect that when people say "Oooh, you're too thin now", they really mean something more like, "I'm surprised / shocked" that your body weight and shape has changed".

Most people have no notion whatsoever of the amount of visceral and subcutaneous fat humans can (and only too often do) carry around unnecessarily.

I guess I am now a "shadow of my former self" and I accept that in a couple of weeks or so, when I go into a maintenance, rather than a weight loss, regime, my body will - in some ways and to some extent - still be conitnuing to adapt to my new body weight and shape.

But I do think that generally we have come as a society to believe that big is beautiful and large is lovely. Well that may, or may not be the case, and perhaps also we're culturally kind of scared of poverty, hunger, malnutrition/starvation or conditons like anorexia, so perhaps we tend to find 'too fat' somehow less challenging than 'too thin'.

But the problem for me isn't per se being fat - in various times and places that would have been seen as evidence of wealth and societal importance. The problem is the health risks and functionality that go hand in hand with that.

[jane010669]

I agree with you completely