3 boxes of candy!!

[dreamof145]

This is strange. I worked today and 3 different people came in and gave me boxes of candy as Christmas presents!! (none of them knew me before...so they don't know that I don't eat candy).

But the best thing is that before I lost weight...anything like this would have offended me. I would have thought in my fat-mind..."Wonder if they are giving me candy because I am fat and they know I would like this." But, now I just accepted it, thanked them and put it in my back-pack to bring home. I'm not going to eat it, it never crossed my mind. I will put it out for guests or give it to my husband. (He loves candy). But, it is strange that my whole way of thinking about gifts has changed. I can receive a food gift and not feel that they are giving it to me to feed the fat-woman. Does anyone else feel like this?

[cleochatra]

Re: 3 boxes of candy!!

I know what you're talking about! I appreciate the sentiment. It's nice to not feel self-conscious and wondering if they assume we like candy because we're overweight. Now we can rationalize we get candy because that's what the gifter would want to receive. *l*

My husband bought a big box of oranges from a friend to support his daughter's fund-raiser. We're donating the entire box to a local charity. It's what I'd do with the chocolates.

{{{becky}}}

[loser4life]

Re: 3 boxes of candy!!

ugh, I got a *huge* box of chocolate covered cherries for christmas last night! LMAO....It was at my work xmas party, and we drew names... oh well, the guy who got my name has only known me like a year~!~! lol,... oh well! nice try! I opened them and set them out for everyone else to eat there!

[Rubysugar]

Re: 3 boxes of candy!!

*lol*

I would totally re-gift those boxes to someone else, too! I understand what you mean about looking deeper into things than need be and taking offense. I used to be horrid at over-analyzing things. Not realizing that no one else was putting that much meaning into trivial gifts like that.

Way to be gracious, Dream and loser4life!

[2big4mysize]

Re: 3 boxes of candy!!

whew I thought you had eaten 3 boxes. LOL

I guess i never had the fat mind cause I would never have thought about feeding a fat person like that.

Glad you could resist. Me being a carboholic isn't going to let one piece near me!