I've gotten better dealing with this as I've lost weight.
Perhaps because people who are overweight are often judged as being ignorant due to our culture's over emphasis on outward appearances being the predetermination of how valuable a person is or how smart they are. As if how much one weighs has anything to do with intelligence or credibility. We, even subconsciously or subliminally, align our own thinking to that and assign it to be true of ourselves. Therefore, your weigh loss may be attributed to you're own subliminal message about yourself.
My word is prepare. In certain areas, I'm doing well, but still have things to work on. I'm comfortable about the things that are going on with Mama's health at this point. I know that it will be an ongoing journey and that she won't live forever, but the incident in December brought reality home to me. Before that, she will healthy with no known problems. It was as if she were ageless. DH and I are working to regain our health, too. It is helping prepare us for the forever ticking of time in our own lives. The house seems to be an ongoing process. One thing is repaired, and another needs repairing, so on it goes. I'm beginning to feel more like this is home, though. Third year in the house, so about time. Once I do some rearranging of the storage closets, I think I'll be at a place where things click for me. All of that makes me feel more prepared for things life throws at me.
Way to go, everyone...yes, it is a journey, with obstacles, twists, turns, and unexpected detours!