I've lost 86lbs since last August! Down to 232 from 318 and I'm so happy and excited, as one might imagine. What I'm doing has really been working for me and since October I've been dressing better, doing my makeup and looking after my skin again. I have a long way to go, but I look and feel 100 percent better than I did when I started. I've never been one to be ashamed of who I am, fat or skinny. When I walk into a room, I walk confidently and proud with my shoulders back, like I'm supposed to be there. As you might imagine, at 318 that walk was more of a confident waddle on my 5'6 frame and now I can execute more of a stride. Being female, I have noticed that my hips seem to have a pretty prominent sway, but it doesn't bother me. I generally feel good about how I walk. But the last few weeks I have a much younger female co worker that's made a few playful but pointed comments on my walk, and though the tone is silly, it's made me a bit conscious of myself. They make comments like "Yeah, shake that butt mushroomrevolution!". Or "There mushroom is, shaking it". I have generally been making playful or witty comments back. I'm a playful person and I like to joke around so at first it wasn't really anything I thought about. But after the 3rd or 4th time, I've been wondering if the way I walk is wrong or distracting.
I don't even think about how I walk usually but the repeated comments have made me feel like I've done something wrong, and I know I have not. My walk has changed, absolutely, but I feel like I move through the world pretty happily and a lot more femininely than I used to based on the fact that my body shape has changed drastically.
I don't mind the comments about my weight loss. I'm proud of the work I've done. I love the fact that I feel more like myself than I have in a very long time. At a bigger size I was confident in myself as a person and my abilities, but I was always tired and unwell feeling. Now I'm feeling good almost all of the time and have more energy to socialize and be friendlier. Maybe the person commenting is genuinely just trying to throw genuine fun energy at me, but it seems like they'd say other silly things other than how my butt moves if that were completely true.
So is this even a concern I should have? Has anyone else had any consciousness about how they walk after a pretty decent sized weight loss? Do I need to just ask that person to stop talking about my butt and live my life?
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