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I have a bit of an annoying NSV.

I keep getting my kids clothes mixed in with mine because now my oldest and I are wearing the same sized shirts and work out shorts and stuff...

OMGosh, I consider it an NSV that Texas doesn't list your weight on your driver's license!

As of this week, I am obese! No longer morbidly obese.
I have lost the equivalent of my 5year old. (Lost the equivalent of my 2year old a while ago). Can sometimes shop in regular sizes. Not all the time yet, but only 3 months postop.
Next goal: weigh what is on my driver's license, then onederland!

As of this week, I am obese! No longer morbidly obese.
I have lost the equivalent of my 5year old. (Lost the equivalent of my 2year old a while ago). Can sometimes shop in regular sizes. Not all the time yet, but only 3 months postop.
Next goal: weigh what is on my driver's license, then onederland!

I went shopping Saturday and bought a pair of size 20 jeans! Before starting this process, I was a solid size 28. Day of surgery I was a 24.

I remember holding up the size 20s and saying, “no way are these tiny things going to fit big old me!” But those suckers fit like a glove!

One month post op and I can’t wait for the NSVs to keep coming. 😄

6 weeks post-op,
~ I can wear my wedding band and engagement rings! Haven't been able to wear them for 3+ years!
~ I have only one pair of shoes that fit! The rest are too big for my feet now. (Unfortunately, they are not athletic shoes....need to purchase some that DO fit)
~I tried on a coat off the rack at the store yesterday and it FIT!! Zipped and everything, haven't been able to do that for a few years

One of my recent support groups talked about addiction transference, in particular, shopping. I was thinking how easy it would be to become addicted to shopping, considering the fact that, with incredibly rare exceptions, I can walk into almost any store and buy almost any item of clothing they sell in my size.

I keep doing this too!! I'm down to a 14 now, so I don't need to be in the plus size, but I feel like an impostor when I take 14s into the dressing room. Wow. Our minds are scary things sometimes aren't they?

I guess we're polar opposites. My fingers are still fat and I've got no a$$! Belly's still hangin' in there, though And, no, nobody but my hubby thinks to come up and pinch my butt (and he's under obligation!)

I finally have one. Took the kiddos to Rye Playland this weekend. When I was a teenager, the first time I dealt with obesity, I couldn't fit on the Dragon Coaster and had to get off. It was crowded and I was humiliated. My daughter asked me to ride with her and I explained that this coaster was built in 1928 when people were a lot smaller and mom might not fit, so dad might have to step in. But surprise, surprise -- bar closed and an old demon was banished.

I got to put my wedding ring back on--it fit! My husband put that on my finger when I was 19 years old and we had a whole life in front of us. We will have our 25th next year in June!

Officially overweight

I'm almost 3 months out, and I've had a few NSV the past few weeks.
I took a 40-minute run and didn't want to die. I actually felt like I could have kept going.
I learned how to swim after 19 years because I finally felt confident enough to go to the pool.
My (very thin) best friend asked if I wanted to have some of her clothes because she's moving and needs to cut down on her closet. Everything I tried on fit me!
I had to buy size medium shorts! (I was wearing 3x at the beginning of this journey).
I'm very happy!

Will you share what a typical daily menu looks like? Or at least a handful of your go to meals/snacks.
1,000 calories is about where I try to be as well.
I am 3 months post-op, doing well, but struggling with building my new routine. Also struggling packing my lunch for work. I am trying to reduce protien shakes bc they aren't filling. I can see how they could become extra calories in the long run. Mine are only 130 calories, but that still adds up.
Don't anyone jump on me, I understand that protien shakes are a valuable tool to add both Fluid and Protein. But at this stage they need to be a tool, not what I rely on. Every body is different.

Down 150 pounds. Why didn’t I do this surgery 10 Years ago!?!?!?

I was shopping yesterday, looking in the clearance section for clothing, and a saleswoman stopped me and said, “Are you shopping for yourself? Because if so, those clothes won’t fit you. You need to shop over on that side of the store,” and she pointed me away from plus sizes to regular and petite sizes. She was right. I’m a size 10-12 now, but I keep forgetting! 😊

Seems silly but my hair elastic doesn’t cut my wrist circulation off anymore 😂

I had a first date tonight, and didn't spend the whole evening with the voice in the back of my head saying ... "You're too fat for him, he's not going to like you because you're fat"

My wife took out a box of large shirts she had tucked away without my knowledge. This was a few months age & I didn’t have a prayer of fitting into them. Today I tried one on & it’s comfortable. This is amazing because I’ve felt like the last couple of months my numbers have been moving so slowly. I guess when your measurements change significantly it’s another victory! The scale wasn’t doing it but this makes the scale matter all the less. Today I weighed in at my dietitian appointment and I weigh 252. Puts me at 103 pounds I believe.

As most of us do too often.... needed to shop again today for pants!! (Suffer from noassatall disease)
To my shock.... a TWO in pants and s shirt??!!?? Holy crap! Never did I think I’d see this size ! ☺️🤗

I wish I had said metabolic surgery it would have made my disclosure much easier and it is completely correct! I had read another post from Missouri-Lee's Summit that explained this further and it was a Au ha moment for me! Amazing that we are all doing this surgery for better health and are have such a stigma about the fact that we are having surgery that improves our health!

I’ll come clean. I was so worried. Especially since there is so much emphasis on food tracking, calorie restriction, obsessing, obsessing, obsessing...I mean, that was our lives right?! I was triggered a lot post op and it had been decades since I’d been hospitalized. When I spent a decade as an obese person I used to joke that I was The Most Successful Recovered Anorexic or say something like, “I weigh so much now it’s the equivalent of me having eaten my old self holding a small child!”
Now I was worrying about how I was going to be able to stop myself from over controlling after surgery.
I nearly didn’t get the surgery because I lost so much beforehand!
But, now 2.5 months later, I’m on this side. I don’t even think about it. It’s just a job. I get my Protein in, take my supplements and drink my Water.< br /> It’s not about control. It’s not about food. It’s not about power. It’s not about punishment, approval or love.
The surgery shut that down for me. Maybe it has to do with the hormone centers. I don’t know. Whatever it is, the switch has been reset. The triggers have been released.
I absolutely understand your fear. I was terrified and could not talk to the Doctors because I know they would not have given me the surgery.
If you need me, you can feel free to contact me. I’m happy to listen.
I know the power of the the disease.
You have to keep talking to yourself. Keep telling yourself your story and why you are worth it. No one else can do that for you. We can only listen and remind you of the steps you need to take to love forward.

Therapy has been helping me get out of my head when it comes to food. I go twice a week. I still drive by the places I used to eat and say to myself that stopping this one time will not hurt. The problem is my old eating habits are sitting there waiting to take over again. It is a slippery slope for me. I get stronger each day, but it is definitely a challenge. I'm learning to identify the triggers to my overeating and to my eating out. I've learned that the head hunger is stronger than the stomach (actual) hunger and it is evil! It is tempting me to go off of my pre-op diet.

Stick with it! It will all work out, I promise.

Since you already realize how important therapy will be to your health and success, I think you're golden. The surgery will help get the weight off, the therapist will help you appreciate the new you. Perfect! Good luck!