I’ve lost around 120lbs (54.5kg) since starting my weight loss journey about 18 months ago. I’m incredibly tall (6ft 5 and broad) so I’ve always been able to hide it *pretty* well, but when I got to a certain size and had difficulties managing the stairs etc. it was time for a change and photos taken during that time prove it.
During my journey I’d also been temporarily promoted for a year, and came back to an office with some new faces after the promotion ended (Talk about taking it all on at once 🙄). Anyway, the conversation went to exercise with a new colleague and I made one of my usual self-deprecating fat jokes (because nobody can make fun of you for being fat if YOU make the joke, right?) and a new colleague didn’t agree with me, in fact they kinda called me out for speaking about myself that way.
I truly felt like I had an out of body experience because ever since I’ve been struggling with my weight (Got fat at 11, only now got on top of it at 30) whenever I’ve made one of these jokes people have either laughed along in agreement or rushed to make excuses for me “You’re just tall/broad/it wouldn’t be natural at your height to be skinny” - it was like a stranger/acquaintance hadn’t looked at me and registered me as fat. And that’s never happened before.
It’s an odd feeling, but I think it feels good.
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