Rock BottomA Weight-loss Journey

It’s that time of the month again, haircut time! Love it – love it – love it. Today was better than usual though, my super-cute hairdresser asked me, “Hey, Richard, have you lost weight?”. Yea baby! I have! Woop woop! .

This is cool for a couple of reasons. First up, who doesn’t like good-looking members of the opposite sex paying you compliments about your appearance? Whilst it may be a few notches behind “Phwoar! I would!”, it’s still something that would never happen a year ago. The other reason this particular compliment was special, is Charlie that has only know me for 4 months: her compliment is on my recent loss, not on my total loss over 11-months. There’s something special about know that the transformation is still obviously happening, I’m still losing enough weight for new people to comment on it.

One of my oldest friends finally commented on my weight last week. Of that possé of friends, the ones I’ve known since school, he was the last to say something. The game I play is that I don’t talk about my weight loss unless someone else brings it up; it’s interesting to see when and how people do it, and it makes me feel good that they’ve initiated it: the change is either so large that they feel obliged to say something, and/or it’s large enough so that they feel confident doing so. He was prompted by a picture on Facebook (one I’ve posted here before), one that also garnered other +likes and a number of “you are such a poser!” comments; me, a poser? Pretty sure that’s first time someone’s called me that, and for now, I like it .

There have been new compliments from colleagues too. With them I’m now almost totally comfortable talking about this journey; the only thing that is taboo is the total amount I’ve lost. It is totally amazing that I’ve changed my lifestyle and lost 1/3 of my bodyweight, but I just can’t brag about “losing 10 stone (140lb)”; the fact that I even could lose that much still embarrasses me.

Someone else who often says nice things about the way I look, is me. When I was bigger I’d sometimes catch myself in the mirror and be shocked at how big I was. Now, that has been replaced by me thinking “Phwoar, I would!” . We are probably harsher on ourselves than other people, but I am improving, I am starting to like the way I look and feel good about it.

Compliments rock!

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