I was overweight most of my life. Everything I really knew about myself was 1 on my size. It was really a 2 experience being a fat woman. However, everything changed after my drastic（极端的）weight 3 five years ago.
I often took a look at myself in a 4 as I passed by in a department store and questioned, "Who is that girl?" It wasn't for a 5 of having mirrors in my house and not looking into the mirror on a 6 basis. My old mental programming（心理程序）still 7 myself as 300 pounds. Even five years after losing all of the weight, I still 8 myself thinking, "Who is that girl?" When I'm not expecting to see myself in a mirror or photograph, it's a total 9 that I look the way that I do. I'd like to think that this is something my mind will finally get used to, but after five 10 , it still hasn't.
I lived in a neighborhood that had a small 11 , at which the same cashiers（收银员） always seemed to work there. The cashiers pretty much always 12 me when I weighed 300 pounds. I was never 13 with a "Hello, how are you doing today? Did you find everything OK?" Even just saying "hi" would have been nice. I grew to 14 shopping there. After I took the weight off, the cashiers were warmer and kinder to me. These were the same cashiers as before, 15 they were friendly to the smaller me.
