My favorite story of noticing my weight loss was the guy with the office next to mine. We're friendly -- we chat for a couple of minutes most days -- but not friendly enough that I had mentioned anything to him about my change in eating habits. One day when I had lost about 40 pounds he looked at me and said, "You look different. Have you changed your hairstyle? No, that's not it. You've lost weight, haven't you?"

Actually, when I weighed about 310 or 320, quite a few people asked me if I had changed my hair style. (I had not.) They knew something was different, but they could not pinpoint it. I was still fat, so perhaps that is why they did not think of my weight first. Now, I have lost so much weight that people I don't even recognize come up to me and ask me about my weight loss. I guess that proves that, back when I weighed over 350 pounds, I was not as successful at blending into the woodwork and being unnoticed as I had hoped!