Last night group was a bit of a free for all. We had one person who got back from a wedding held in PV and talked about how she had the wait staff in the hotel, restaurants, and at the wedding doing her bidding. I got the impression that if/when she loses all the weight she is going to be a bit of a princess. So far she has admonished the clerk at the desk at least 3 of the the 6 weeks we have been coming in. The first time was about the money, not that she didn't want to pay, she just didn't think it was the correct time to pay. She went on and on in a fairly loud abrasive voice. The second time was when she was going on a trip and wanted to order food for two weeks because she was going to be missing one week, and the third time was because she didn't know she was suppose to sign in and then be called up to pay. Now it was the third time that was the most interesting to me. We had been signing in since the first week as she must have done for the first two weeks, but for some reason she thought she should just stand in line. I wasn't sure what she was thinking when the clerk called people up and they went ahead of her. I guess the lack of food turned off her brain. But she finally figured it out and kept talking to the clerk as she was checking people in how the clerk should have made it clear to her and how she had been standing there waiting blah blah blah. Then when she went up to pay she made more comments about it and finally after group she made more comments about. The next week she came in and signed in and made one more comment about it. Talk about not letting something go...
We have one person in group that is getting therapy and she always is saying things like I am loving myself just the way I am no matter what weight I am. I accept who I am no matter what weight I am. But though the words come out of her mouth they don't follow her body language. I don't know what it is, but I just get the feeling that she is not a happy person. There is some vibe coming off her that I just don't like and out of everyone there she is the only one I haven't gone and talked to.
The most obnoxious person in the group though is this one lady. She works at Kaiser so maybe that is why she is in the program. I actually talked to her last night and did like her, but I am thinking she is a ringer. She is the one who only has 20 pounds to lose and she is the one who isn't really doing the program. So she did a check-in and said she forgot to eat at all one day so the next day she had KFC to make up for the food she didn't eat the prior day. She talked about how hard it was to follow the program and we must have spent half the group time on her. Finally, one person piped up and said are you sure you even want to be in the program, you aren't even trying...
It was actually an interesting night all in all, and I finally got my sleeping pills!!!!
I'm glad you only have a few obnoxious folks. It also confirms that you're a good fit for the program since you're publicly tolerant of mouthy, obnoxious folks (privately, you are more than willing to vent - almost always with 100% justification).
ReplyDeleteI thought you had to have over 40 pounds to lose to be admitted - sounds like the Kaiser person should be bounced from the program OR just lose the weight by cutting her/his head off.
Do you really believe the person forgot to eat for one day????? By the way, I suspect KFC would make you "like a woodchuck" (without the "wood" part of the name).
Let's send the names to Uncles Guido & Vinnie who can take them for a boat ride
And you *like* her???
ReplyDeleteLove your characterizations. It will be interesting to see how your feelings about these people change over time.