I figure now is an opportune time to use this title, it's been swimming about for a while.

The rampant "popularity" of these "n Confessions of a (profession) worker" sorts of post-things were interesting at first, and now they are just old and played out. :( I don't care what Bob down at "John's boobie shack" has to confess about the mammography industry.

So here is a confession that is more of a gripe.

It always annoys/bothers me when I see people, and they are all "zomg you has weight loss?"

There's something always so... disturbing about it. I'm not sure if it's that people are paying attention to me and my person, or that there's always this eerie congratulatory vibe under it... I don't know, but I'm not fond of it.

Maybe I got too used to my mom going on about how I was fat and blahblahblah.

Anyway. No matter who does it, it bothers me. Sure, from two years ago I am markedly smaller. From recently, no. Most people have seen me in more recent times than two years ago, so my size shouldn't be a topic of discussion. (another thing that bothers me, the usage of "did you lose/gain?" I don't know, did I? What am I losing/gaining? There's something terribly cultish about that form of speech.)

I think I'm going to start answering whenever someone asks if I've lost weight I'm going to answer with either taking off something like a bag or such "why yes, yes I have" or answering "well, yesterday I was n, today I am n+/-1, so yes/no, yes I have/no I haven't". Maybe I'll reply with "yes, I've been looking for it, do you know where it managed to get off to?"

I mean, people like to get into "zomg you are looking good" was I looking bad before? Was this weight that has somehow gone missing making me hideous? It confuses me. :(

It's like all of the people who were telling me that my mom was insane, judging my value as a person by my weight, but then they are doing the same thing... blah.

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