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humm...sometimes I look and say...what a hot momma! Other times I look and see the bags under my eyes and the stress lines (not good at 25 years of age) but you know what....it doesn't really matter to me what I see in the mirror. I know who I am, a good caring fun loving person, and I have people that love me...on my good days and on my worst ones! The mirror can shove it for all I'm concerned! :heh:

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Some days I look and think to myself "wow, I'm lookin good!" other days it's "gawd, I am still SO FAT!!". It kind of depends on my mood I guess. Sometimes I'm in a decent mood but see my fat self in the mirror and get depressed.

As for final goals... I also was very unhappy at 160 lbs, but I don't remember a weight that I was previously happy with. I believe that once I get to 160, I can decide whether I'm happy, or if I think I need to do more. For calculation purposes, my final goal is 140; I started at 280, my goal is 140, and so at 210, I'll be halfway to goal. 140 was my original goal but I've revised it to 140~160. ;)

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I am shocked EVERY time I pass a mirror. I'll just be going along minding my own business thinking I'm still this skinny little thing & then damn it, I pass a mirror & someone else is there. A big old fat lady. In my mind I'm still young too. Young & skinny. Darn those mirrors! I'm really afraid that even if I reach my goal weight I'll still have my double chins & lumps & bumps & wrinkles. But we'll see. Maybe this will all work out. Just gotta keep on trying.

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When I was at my heaviest, I'd look in the mirror and not see that obese person staring back at me. I had absolutely no clue how large I appeared to the public until I saw it in pictures. Then I was absolutely flabberghasted. :faint:

Now, 75lbs down I still see that fat person I saw in the mirror before I had surgery. Yes, I see my collar bones now but generally I'm the same person. I still see my saggy boobs and hanging belly. It's sad how we can look in the mirror and not really see what's there. We could be a beautiful butterfly but all we see is that ugly old worm.

That's just on the outside. On the inside, I kind of feel like the same person I was when I got out of high school only with more miles and more experience.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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