5 Minute Freewrite Challenge Day 277 Cancer
When I lost weight, people who knew me asked me if I had cancer. This started when I got under 200 pounds and went on after I got to my goal weight and a few years after that. Weight loss is so strange in this world now, that when it happens, people can only think it is because you are sick. The only sickness they can think of that would cause extreme weight loss is cancer.
My weight loss was very scary for me already. I did not know who I was when it happened. I desperately wanted my fat body back so that I could be the person I used to be. But I knew that was not the way to think of it and fought hard to stay thin. The healthy habits I developed were my only defense and I clung to them for dear life.
I stayed away from everyone, but in a small town, I never knew when someone would pop around a corner, recognize me and say, “Oh my God, You are so thin! Do you have cancer?” I used to run and cry as I fled.
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This is so strange to me! It would be very rude in my country to ask so openly to a person if she's ill, expecially when thinking about a serious illness like cancer! What kind of boors they were to you?!?
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I can completely relate with your situation. It's like a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation. Whether you gain weight or lose weight, people always have something to say. And most of the time, even if they don't mean to, its embarrassing or hurtful. It's as if the only way you could win is if you stay the same weight as when people first met you.
I so agree. Another thing people would say at that time was, "I thought you would be dead, not thin." I was really sick for years with my obesity, so I guess I could see their point. But it did not help when I was so awkward in my new body anyway :)
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