thank you guys for your opinions and experiences. I will say I am a pretty outgoing person and not shy. I was always the one who would first start up a conversation or strike up a joke... now it seems like they all want to strike one up first. They all come around me and just want to be next to me. I get invited everywhere now. The attention is overwhelming at times. This didnt happen to me when I was fat. They were nice to me but not the way it is now. I know more about them now than I did 6 months ago (its like they feel they need to share everything with me)... what I lost the weight so now I have all the answers. Honestly I have some really best friends and I know who my true frieinds always have been. I am appreciative of my new ones but I cherish my old ones.