Please don't...

These are some things that I wish wouldn't happen, but inevitably they will...

1)  I hope that people are not ONLY focused on my weight loss.  I am glad that I have so many supportive people, but I don't want it to be the only thing we ever talk about.  I am so much more than a fat person or a thin person.   I am a mom, a teacher, a sister, a euchre player, (apparently now a blogger, LOL), a flute player, a church member, and hopefully much more to come!!!

2)  I hate the phrase "hot mama."  I don't think I ever hear anyone saying that to a person who has always been thin.  This is not about "hotness."  It's about good health. 

3)  I am sure that I will have some issues with saggy skin and I will always have the stretch marks that I already had, and I could possibly have some thinning hair.  I hope that people do not stare at them or constantly ask me if my insurance will cover a tummy tuck or other plastic surgery.  My dietician said that 98% of their patients do NOT have a surgery (partially because insurance won't always cover it, and they are getting more strict about it).  I just want to get through the weight loss, and developing good eating and exercise habits, and cross that bridge when I come to it. 

4)  I hope people don't analyze everything that I eat, whether they think it's too little, too much, "Why is she eating THAT?", etc.

5)  Lastly, and most important to me, I do not want people to make any rude, but presenting it in a cheerful way, comments to Glen about what he is going to do with me losing so much weight.  He has some to lose, but not nearly as much as I do, and when he is ready he will do something, but if he doesn't, it's okay...I still love him like crazy, and we don't have to come as a "matched set."  He is really looking forward to the point in time (mid-September) where I will be eating regular food again, because he LOVES what I cook and make when we are eating healthy.  When we did WW together, I did a lot of "buffets" with, for example, low-fat taco meat, bowls of veggies and other toppings, and we all just take what we want, but with lots of veggies as the base.  He LOVES that.  Our problem is that we make ourselves so darn busy that we end up eating out WAY too much, which is expensive and not very veggie-plentiful. 

So, to anyone who reads this, thank you, thank you, thank you for all of your support.  It's weird...I will LOVE getting compliments, but I will also look forward to the day when how I look is just "business as usual"..........