Side effects

At around the same time as I started this blog, I started dieting, and have lost a lot of weight. I haven't talked about it on here as I think I talk about it too much in real life and, frankly, it's very dull, but there are some odd side effects that I wanted to mention. One is that there are several people who I've known vaguely for a long time, and who never had much time for me before, who seem to suddenly consider me worth talking to. It seems slightly peculiar, and I wonder if there's been an accompanying change in my personality as my confidence has recovered that makes me more fun to talk to now, or if they're just that shallow. The other effect is that people have started chatting me up again. Obviously this is quite enjoyable, but there is a little, contrary part of me that regrets the loss of the 'git filter', the repellent that being overweight provided against superficial people. Now I can't help but look at people who ask me out, or flirt, and wonder whether they would they have liked me before. Not because it would upset me if they wouldn't have, but because I'd know whether they were worth the effort of getting to know.