I am SOOO Excited!!!!! Today I am 13 days post op and have lost 24 pounds since my pre-op appt. So about a year ago there were these super sexy pair of jeans at Macy's that were on sale super cheap. The only problem, I was a size 24 (when I sucked in) and the jeans were a size 18!!!! I thought, what they heck, they are cheap enough, I'll just buy them as GOAL Jeans. WELL... Tonight I was trying to find something to wear to go out ot dinner and I saw them and decided to try them on just to see how much longer it may be before I get to wear my "sexy Jeans" WELL............... They went OVER my hips without a prob, and as I grabbed the waistline and pulled the button to the hole, it buttoned perfectly easily without me having the lay down, suck in or squeeze myself in them!! I am SO excited! THEY FIT PERFECT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I wore them to dinner just becuase I could and I feel great!!!!

So heres to my FIRST NSV! What are some of yours you are expirencing?????

My moment was when I went saturday shopping with all my "skinny" friends and realized that now I do not have to wathc and hold THEIR bags when they go to try on clothes...I too am in the dressing room trying on the SAME clothes they are trying on.

And damn if I don't look better!!!!! hehehehee

Now they ask me for MY fashion tips!

I was feeling a bit slow in weight loss when I read of people losing 40-50 pounds because we work in kilograms here in Australia. So I pulled up a unit converter and found that my 27kg is like 60 pounds!

I was able to get up on the swim step of a wake board boat on the 4th of July weekend. One of my biggist fears, that I would be stuck in the lake not be able to get back on the boat. Wow what a wonderful feeling. Huge NSV for me.

My all time favorite was when my daughter came out of her dance class a while back and said to her self who is that pretty lady ? Then I turned around and she said oh wow thats my mom.

I love your daughter!! My adult son did sort of the same thing when I went to meet him at his akido class (to go out to dinner afterwards!). He even wanted to introduce me to his instructor-- he's never wanted to do that before.

I had my surgery in June of 2008. My son left for college shortly thereafter so he wasn't around to watch me shrink. When he came home for Christmas that year I had lost about 75 pounds. I went to pick him up at the airport. When he came through the gate and saw me his expression spoke volumes. He ran over to me and picked me up and spun me around (he would have broke his back 6 months earlier..lol) and said "Holy Crap, Mom! You told me you lost weight but I had no idea!" It brought tears to my eyes. There's no better feeling than that of pride from your child!

Wow! Great job! I was on vacation and realized that most of what I packed was too big. I ran in to Fashion Bug to get a pair of shorts and as I entered the sales lady asked if I was looking for anything in particular. I told her I needed a pair of shorts and she said "well your looking in the plus sized section, you'll need to look over here" and gestured toward the "regular" sizes. I was shocked and she was right! The 14s fit perfect! It's weird that I didn't recognize how much I've lost until that moment! Yay!

how totally cool!!