Dear blkhwkdwn1:

You are welcome. Like I wrote before, a pleasure to communicate with you.

You can start a new thread, if you do, maybe other members will reply to you (in this one there is a whole lot of you and I communicating which may make other members reluctant to post).

You wrote that you feel better having lost the weight but you don’t feel more confident. I think you feel more motivated, now that you succeeded in losing the weight. You sound more motivated, to me, setting the next goal, to improve your social skills. You had one success, it feels good, and so, you are motivated to accomplish another goal.

I would say, just as you lost one pound at a time, improve your social skills one bit at a time, gradually, patiently. Try to not be discouraged by the zig-zag nature of learning such a skill (doing better one hour or day, not as good the next, experiencing a difficulty, then doing way better the next, and so on).

Post anytime, here, on a new thread, as you wish.

anita