Sophie7713

Weather front coming in tonight into the 30's over next few evenings... So, running out today to replace all my gigantic PJ's and robe from last winter. Outfit for a holiday dinner this weekend. Returning the khaki bottoms - feeling they too clingy and not so flattering made for a taller leg + slimmer build. Agree? I really need a nice pair of petite all purpose khakis! Any suggestions?

My ABSOLUTE favorite outfit to date!

So excited for your upcoming 15th wedding anniversary! The gowns are all BEAUTIFUL but my favorites on you are dress #1 Art Deco styling hugging your form to perfection. The sheer lace work is so sexy... #2 Grace Kelly glamorous highlighting your silhouette and shoulders. The fabric flair is stunning here. With the right elegant necklace, OH boy! The last gown is probably my least favorite feeling it separates your breast plate a bit too far pulling down your wonderful elongated trim form. Just my thoughts, of course... Not there in person like you to experience the full effect. Can't wait to see what your final look and selection will be! So many fun choices!

Just now catching up after Thanksgiving holiday company... I love this picture of you!!!! AND the amazing snow scape setting. You have transformed before all our eyes - standing as tall in confidence as the majestic pine trees beyond! Your smile simply radiants with joy, purpose and beauty. Here's to NORMAL. Here's to milestones! Wow. For us Floridians - this picture is a true treat. You have also inspired me to consider a winter snow vacation now without all my excess bulk. Thank you! ;]

Oh my gosh!!!!! Puppy love!

I just wanted to wish everyone a delightful Thanksgiving holiday week filled with all things happy and meaningful to you and yours! Family coming down from Tallahassee today. Pleasant weather for their visit. Taking my shrimp cocktail for dinner to a friend's home tomorrow, BUT loved these cookies for our hostess gift... The pilgrim girl touts a very fashionable hat for her OOTD! ;] So very thankful for each of you AND our thread. Sending up warm wishes despite the cold temps some of you are experiencing.

Boots definitely!

Dressing your age!?!? From my vantage point - not even a hint of matronly going on here! You read GORGEOUSLY glamorous and the dress lines are reminiscent of the 40's era - Which I feel, one of the most feminine and glamorous decade in women's fashion. The vertical patterned lines here so compliment your wonderful figure with an elongated appeal. The hem line reveals a glimpse of how truly sexy your legs are (sometimes less is more) AND the high heels are just icing on this cake!!!... only accentuate this unlike a shorter hemline. We are talking totally delicious, not motherhood. The kids must be so proud of their fashion forward Mama. :] And, just a thought, this dress with your little cropped jean jacket, a wide black belt with black high heels - we are talking date night!!!

I concur, I am absolutely ecstatic to no longer be living in a continuous Food Coma! So many wasted years of frustration, anger, disappointment and the endless shifting thru all the mixed food messages. It's as if the rose colored glasses have been taken off. I celebrate the miracle of my sleeve everyday, and could never have imagined dropping 120 pounds and counting in less than a year. We all should be very very proud. And, for the first time in a long time - Thanksgiving dinner is just another meal for substance + nutrition NOT a grand event. Perhaps, after a few years pass - I'll try a little bite of this and that? But my current rule of thumb for my body type and goal is to reframe from any processed or rich ingredients. Headed to our friends home with my little shrimp cocktail in tote. Like you noted, FREEDOM indeed. We no longer are slaves to food pre-occupation. None can begin to fathom this unless personally experienced.

Okay, now. Casual lunch with whom in that sexy little outfit? The boots are amazing! Great look for you. Your shoe + clothes closet come mid-night is going to start growling to the wild side! After all, cats are nocturnal... LOL

Well... look at it this way, the big trade off is you can wear all those fabulous, fashionable coats, mittens, scarves and really cool boots! And, make snow angels. Personally, boots here in south Florida look a bit like an overkill except for my equestrian riding boots. You'd laugh to see how pathetic I've become with the slightest hint of cold weather (and, this from an original central PA girl)! Trips up to Atlanta and south Georgia warrant full fledge Canadian attire. You and ms.sss would crack up at Miss. wimpy here. Oh, by the way, did you ever listen to Car Talk? Beyond hilarious - especially when Click and Clack brothers would dispense fashion, dating and marriage advice.

I LOVE the Tiny Desk Concerts! Happy with my new wind breaker. Sad we lost to Ohio State Saturday. Perhaps, we may still make it to a bowl game - All Things Considered... NPR rocks. ;]

Thanks! I just ordered mine. I did have a thought though. With all this talk of the perfect butt, cookie or hiney maybe this thread should be the Radio City Rockettes, oops, I mean the International Bariattes! Such authentic beauty here inside and out. ;]

I need some padding, too...(totally flat cookie these days!) for a holiday dress with fish net stockings now on order. What was the brand and source again?

Well, I tell you what - NYC is definitely hailing there's a new hot girl in town!!! You must be over-the-moon happy and as you noted, life is good! Feeling lighter on my feet everyday no longer carrying all the baggage. This morning, I moved into a new decade of 139 lbs. Yay! I'm still in loosing mode BUT if you'd let me borrow 2 inches, I'd be at goal today! Haha. That would leave you a nice 5' 7" tall and me 5' 2" taller! LOL. I really don't count calories and eat 75% raw like salads, shrimp or lobster bites, cottage cheese, lots of veggies, nuts and fruit. And, baked crackers with high quality thin slice of cheese for a treat with fresh tomato salsa. Eat very few processed foods. 80 - 100+ oz. water a day, decaf hot tea in the evenings. Cold shrimp cocktail appetizer is my go to for dinner's out socially. Not a big fish girl. I'll bring that dish with me to a friend's in Boca for Thanksgiving dinner. I remain very strict, and never wish to return to the carte blanch eating coma. I walk Bobby (the wire fox terrier) three times a day and my profession keeps me very physically active. How's your riding? Do you feel more flexible in the sport now? Do the horses respond to you differently now? I do have ample excess skin front side that really weighs down + off balances posture on new, very petite frame. i.e. The jacket below is a 10 petite, but really should be a 6 or 8 if not for extra abdominal skin. Clothing sizes, of course, vary with each garment style. I interviewed plastic surgeon's and found an excellent one here in Jupiter. If all goes well, Lolo, surgery is slated for late January 2020. Oh boy! It will be an arduous timely recovery given the fleur de lis tummy tuck - the breast lift, not so much. However, I knew this phase was to follow, and I desire to look my best going forward and in the gown I designed for our May 2020 - vow renewal and gala on mainline, Philadelphia springtime. So excited! So, I am a women on a mission. Planning holidays here? If in town, let's definitely get together and compare notes + celebrate our victories! I'd really enjoy that. We are decking the halls this weekend, even the car. Haha. Good to connect AND I am so very happy for you, Lolo. Your beauty, resolve and determination just radiant. CONGRATULATIONS! Life is good. ;]

Good morning, Sheribear - untucked. But, feeling the slacks appear a bit bunchy and loose... not flattering your wonderful new figure! With this untucked variegated top - maybe pair it with a nice solid black, quality spandex form fitting bottoms (love your hips + curves) with black boots? You wear black so well. And, I can hear Oklahoma all the way to Florida hailing there's a hot new girl in town! BTW, there's that cool closet again even with furniture. The to die for girl's cave! Can we all come up to the attic to try clothes on, too!? Haha. ;]

Great minds think alike... I was asking that same question myself!

Lolo, you look fabulous!!!! Red is a great color on you, too. Such a pretty figure with nice proportions. Are you in maintenance phase? Have you been enjoying clothes shopping? Congratulations!

December 17th I celebrate my first year anniversary. You've got this. You will never look back!

Size 8 dress, too. Yay for us! Send us a snap shot of the new you...

Happy Thanksgiving December 2018 sleever's. Hope everyone is well and happy. I'm feeling grateful with the results this thankful season!

Thank you, ladies, for you're honest and sincere input! I respect and value everything each have said and the insight your experience renders. I will definitely compare all the pro and cons. (I also love playing scrabble, and am a big To Do List girl, too!) Whenever I need to make a major decision personally or professionally, I literally write out two columns, one pro and one con. It's a great way for the subject matter at hand to become crystal clear on paper. That said, I absolutely bonded today with the female plastic surgeon and her staff. I never sensed they were selling surgery. I asked for a thorough exam with an honest evaluation and answers to my concerns which were raised here on the thread. I expressed my goals were not for a body beautiful. I'm now 60 and realistic. My hubby and I joke, I'll be like Mrs. Frankenstein 2020! The current severely sagging, elongated breasts (boy, now that's a pretty picture) are now causing back pain; a bit of a hunch back is forming; and two rolls of abdominal skin causing posture imbalance, rash and bones to protrude now that my frame has become relatively small. None were issues before when I was big and plump, as the weight balanced out everything proportionately, surgeon noted. With careful examination of my entire body in the raw - she did not wish me to loose much more weight feeling I'd crossover to gaunt. Nor felt the weight on the scale was an accurate measurement of my body frame and type. She concluded, I was an excellent candidate with a great underlying structure in good health, and addressing the loose skin now was a good thing. We met for over an hour discussing this, good nutrition and other relevant topics. My appointment lasted 2 ½ hours. I felt them professional, thorough and attentive to the sleeve nuances. The surgeon was quite confident and enthusiastic about sculpting me to my personal finish line. She loved and was inspired by the 25th gala gown design sketch for May 2020 - I had shared on the OOTD thread. Call me rebel, guinea pig, stupid or a trail blazer - but I scheduled my breast lift and a fleur de lis tummy tuck for this winter, January 2020 with exparel pain medication to deaden nerves that first week. They were most forthright to my questions for recovery time + post surgery pain + uncomfortableness given the sometimes precarious vertical and horizontal lower abdominal intersection that can sometimes cause healing complications. Hopefully, that will not be my plight. I am to use a walker and not stand erect for the first few weeks until that particular incision shows healthy healing. An arduous endeavor. Hubby and I will go to pre-op appointment. However, we will continue to proceed with caution and remain attentive. As a super responder (Dr. Weiner's term) as I think many of us are here - I was actually a very jovial, active in my field, former professional full-figure model, fit, sturdy overweight who ate fairly healthy (until reading the obesity code, a real eye opener to the toxic foods we thought were good for us like 21st century breeds of brown rice, whole wheat bread and wheat pasta + all white powders, like cocaine, just kidding!...) and exercised regularly. No real obesity issues accept left knee joint pain from previous injuries (ergo, the penchant for flat shoes) as a runner exasperated by too much weight. Even heavy, I strived to be my best possible self BUT no doubt, my good fortune would eventually run out moving into older adulthood. The sleeve has addressed the metabolic disease beautifully. I remain cautiously optimistic about this next phase. My former Miami modeling agency has asked if I'd be interested in registering as a relatable, older adult petite woman. Absolutely, of course. You often get to keep the clothing you model. Fun! Just no high heels... Oh, and I thought this definition + history was way cool: Plastikos - Greek root to mold or give form. Egypt 3000 BC first historical evidence of plastic surgeon pioneers caring for facial wounds via duels and jousts. 1800's better tools and techniques invented. WWI becoming prominent for wounded soldiers. 1950's thru today, an established art and science with continuing advances with modern technologies. My surgeon is 10 years practiced, yet on the cutting edge. Not too young or too old. Interviewed three surgeons, will cancel the last two interviews. Did not mean to write a novel...

OKAY! Like take my breath away... This little black dress is GORGEOUS on you! You have such beautiful legs, arms and silhouette, Kays Mom! It flatters you in a way the pretty florals don't quite capture - Do send us the outfit complete on your special gala night. Hubby and daughter must be over in the moon with joy and pride for their ROCKIN wife and mom.

Can I borrow two inches? That would make you a nice 5'5" and me 5'2" putting me at goal weight tonight! You have got the coolest walk-in closet.