Strangers Noticing my changes….
So I went back to work this week teaching 5th grade at a local Catholic School.
Today I go to drop my students off at gym, and the gym teacher says to me you were just paid a compliment, and I was like um ok…. by who? and she told me the name but I didn’t recognize it, so she proceeded to tell me who the lady was. She is one of the parishioners at the Church and we had Mass with the kids this morning. Well I guess after mass the lady walked over to the gym teacher and asked is she had seen me because she wanted to tell me how great I looked. She told the gym teacher that I had lost a lot of weight and that I was looking great. So the gym teacher who happens to be one of my students parents as well, told the lady that she needed to catch me after church on Wednesday and let me know this. I guess she tried to find me after mass but I had already taken my students down to the basement of the church to get their book bags and stuff and she missed me or couldn’t find me. The lady is an older women and the lady friend of one of the school’s most generous benefactors. He basically gives the school a lot of money. She seems like a really nice lady but I never really talked to her much( at school we don’t have a lot of time to do that)
So when I heard this news this morning I was on cloud nine! Someone who I don’t even know that well, noticed that I have been working hard and paid me a compliment. It felt great.
From work the only two people who have noticed the changes in me and said anything about it are that lady and THE ART TEACHER..
I am sure the others have noticed they just didn’t say anything.
On a side note, last night I was sitting on the couch and I had my knees bent up in front of me, and I noticed that my legs are really toned after walking so much this summer. My thighs use to be like jello and jiggle all over the place. WEll last night I was hitting my legs and they weren’t jiggling, they were nice and tight. That too me shows that even though I lost only 4 pounds all summer, my body has gone through a lot of changes. I was able to tone it up. I felt accomplished after seeing that! The scale might not have showed me a big difference this summer, but I know there is one with the way my body looks.
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woop woop…you are turning heads! Way to go!
You will continue to amaze everyone!
You go, girl! You are doing so great! It is such a wonderful feeling when we get those compliments isn’t it?
Big HUGS!
That was so sweet!
Isnt it nice when you notice things about yourself like that?! Good for you woman!
Super. You are a great inspiration to send me walking which is the BEST exercise of all and what we were designed to do.
Sometimes people are afraid to comment. They might think that by saying something about your weight at all that they are being too personal. And if the losing person is still pretty big, they are even more uncomfortable. Sometimes people are shrinking due to stress or illness. I have made the compliment before and brought up a painful subject by doing so. :o(
Anyway you deserved the compliment and even more delightful to have it brought to you with a bow by messenger. Congrats on your efforts.
I just wonder if people realize just how much a compliment means! What a gift, it makes all the difference in the world, just knowing someone else notices enough to comment. It is the best motivation I know. I must work harder to remember to compliment people ….. all too often I think, inside my head “she sure looks nice today”… or Wow, John looks good in his golf shorts
.. and then once I’ve thought it, I don’t remember to say it out loud. And I do think a compliment from a stranger is really special, I mean they have absolutely nothing to gain, right? Face it, we don’t always believe hubby and friends….think they’re just saying it to be nice… (that’s our own insecurity talking, I know that, but still…) I’m happy for you Julie. You are my inspiration so many times when I feel down. lym
the art teacher? woot woot. LOL At a wedding last week my aunt dee dee saw me dancing and said you could gtell how much I lost.