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And I suppose I am chopped liver!!!!!

AHEM! The name is RootMAN, thank you very much - it's not all chicks in this forum!

I love this thread!!!

The OUCH my wallet feels because I am constantly buying new clothes so I don't look sloppy at work (law office) and actually having to buy a belt for the first time.... oh the humanity!

LMAO these are all too funny...... I love it when I would wear pants and they would be fitting really great in the AM, but by the afternoon, they were toooooo toooooo big. Love it. Also when your office chair can fit 2 of you....

This post and everyone's responses have made me literally laugh out loud! I can't wait to have these problems. :-) It will be such a great feeling to be able to share more than just shoes and jewelry with my skinny daughter!!

Being content with eating one small plate of food at each of the holiday celebrations, while all those around me ate to the point they were miserable,
Being able to be picky when trying on clothes. Even if something fits, if it isn't flattering, not buying it - instead of buying anything (or the one thing) that halfway fits you at all,
Getting to pick from a variety of pretty underwear styles - instead of the granny pants styles.
Being able to stand on one foot and raise the other one off of the floor while shaving my legs in the shower.
Having my husband put his arm around my waist and move me in front of him in the family pictures this year (instead of me hiding half behind him)
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Being able to buy pants that don't have elastic in the waistbands! WOOT!

Having to alternate butt cheeks when sitting because when you sit too long your but bone starts to hurt because there's no cushion.
Finding yourself shopping at the Aeropostale $3.00 t-shirt sale, and you're the oldest person trying on clothes (my son was mortified because I was shopping at "his" store).
Wearing your 14 year old son's t-shirts and beaters to sleep in because they're baggy enough to make good night clothes.
Packing a week's worth of clothes for vacation in a small suit case because size 6s and 8s don't take up much room.
Constantly returning clothes because when something is labeled S, M, or L, you go for the biggest size out of habit when you know damn well it's too big for you...
Having a ton of clothes to choose from and sexy shoes.
I could go on, but as you can see, I'm "struggling" with my sleeve!

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<li>The size 10 jeans you bought just 3 weeks ago are now baggy! </li>
<li>There's never anything good on the clearance rack, because there are lots of other skinny girls your size, and they beat you to it.</li>
<li>The freezer is packed with leftovers, because you only eat a very little bit, so normal serving sizes become 4 meals, or more. And just forget those family-sized prepared Entrees at Costco!!</li>
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Restaurant booths are now too BIG and you have to scoot forward to reach the table!
Blood pressure cuffs are hard to adjust SMALL enough when the used to barely fit at all.
You feel like you are gyping the server at a restaurant when you tip the regular 15%, only now it's on less than HALF the regular bill becasue you are splitting Entrees and skipping deserts.

Hah! The normal-sized hospital gown will fit, so I won't be able to have that lovely hallways conversation when I discover, when half my clothes are already off, that they brought me the XL gown instead of the XXL gown.

Not there yet, but that is what I am looking forward to:
standard sized seats (in cinemas, aiplanes, restaurants etc..) are not intruments of torture.

i'll add: Having to use the regular blood pressure cuff at the doctor's office rather than the supersized one

It's not all pretty - it's not all easy to go from morbidly obese to...well..not morbidly obese. I know when I was pre-op I was always looking for the terrible side effects so I had in my mind the potential of what difficult steps I had ahead for me. Now that I'm 7 months out and down 109 pounds, I know the reality of what I had to adjust to.
1. Cute shirt in department store ad catches my eye. It's plus sized, it was drape over me, it's not an option.
2. Lane Bryant emails are now just more spam.
3. Can't say "LMAO" anymore cause it's already gone...
4. Automatic toilets scare the crap out of you! There's no longer that one minute delay after my big ol fat butt gets off the toilet. The immediate "Whooosh!" is so unexpected!
5. Bummed out MIL when she offered to give me the 16's she had gotten too thin for an was now in her goal weight of a 14 and had to tell her I was now at a 12 (okay, so maybe I did kinda enjoy that moment...PS- now a size 10)
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Post ops, feel free to add to my list.....

I was sleeved on Friday night. Huge gas bubbles, lots of pain and neausa! Anyone who says this is the easy easy way out is sorely mistaken! Ugh! Can't wait to feel better!

You almost always weigh more from the Fluid they pump in through your IV. They say to expect about 5lbs gain. You'll lose it all as soon as you're home.

No, just pedantic, I really like to KNOW things rather than just guess or assume them.

Boogie is a dance.
Bougie is a sized tube that many VSG surgeons use a guideline to size our remaining stomachs.