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What nsv are you looking forward to?

Besides the normal ones, shopping in the regular clothes, no more meds for health issues...

1) buying a bra at Victoria Secrets and pushing the girls back up where they belong.

2) coughing and not having to cross my legs. The mommy cough as my friends call it.

3) not having to worry about camel toe when I wear pants.

What are you looking forward to?

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Here are my 3 things:

1) being able to fit into a teeny airline seat (I have to travel for over 12 hours to get back to the States to visit family) -- I would like not to have to worry if I'm spilling over onto someone else.

2) I would like to buy clothes here in Paraguay where all the women are super thin. So far, I'm still ordering from the States.

3) I am looking forward to going to the beach/pool in a swimming suit and not feel like a beached whale.

There are so many things that I am looking forward to!

1 -Weighing less than my husband!

2 -Feeling good about myself in a pair of shorts

3 - Buying jeans in a size 10.... I am aiming for that one to happen by summer!

My journey begins January 6th!

Definitely thighs not rubbing together anymore. I'm getting pretty close to it, but I think it'll take getting to goal weight to completely get rid of the problem. I can't tell you how many hours I've wasted trying to find shorts long enough to be able to walk in without my thighs chafing raw after 10 blocks.

Going to a patio party and fitting in those itsy bitsy plastic seats without my thighs bluging out the sides and the worry that is this chair going to break.

Shopping at a non-plus size store and getting great deals

traveling around the world and feeling comfortable in the airplane seats back in coach

Lily

1) not feeling so bloated and tired all the time

2) wearing cute clothes i can buy in the "normal" section of department store

3) allowing the athlete in me to come out and having everyone see it

I now just have one and that is to be able to actually take a picture beside someone without looking like a stupid giant against everyone. . . that is so irratating. . I've lost 140 lbs and still look HUGE against my tiny little family in laws. . . errrrrrrrrrrrrrr and here i thought i was looking good. . . NOT!!!!!!

1. No more New Years Resolutions. I always feel like a failure when I have come to yet another year and have not lost weight.

2. Not dreading pictures anymore because I have to face how big I really am.

3. New clothes!

1. To be able to go to weddings and funerals without trying to hide from people I haven't seen in years.

2. When I hear that someone has died, to react appropriately to the situation, and not with, "Oh shit! How do I get out of going to this?"

3. To willingly have my picture taken, and to stop saying to people who've taken my picture, "Don't you dare post that on the internet!"

4. To shop for clothes in real stores, and not just online.

5. To wear clothes that aren't fat lady clothes.

6. To feel good!

7. Cute shoes.

8. It's too late for me to ever expect to wear swimsuits in public, but maybe in my own backyard swimming pool?

9. To be able to sit in a booth, comfortably.

10. To be able to be seated in any chair in the room.

Something i haven't haven't even thought about but I've achieved even though I haven't reached goal yet: Being able to wrap myself completely in a NORMAL towel, not one of those huge sheet towels, loving it!! :D

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I remember when a normal towel fit. Now it covers 2/3 of me. I would also love to be able to be able to wear shorts without having to pull them down from creeping. It's amazing how much we avoid that we do not even think about anymore. It has become the norm. I sometimes wonder how this happened, but I guess it just does over time. Your jeans start getting tight so you buy a bigger size and blame it on the dryer shrinking your clothes. Then one day you look at a picture and barely recognize yourself. Hopefully the opposite will happen soon enough for us. I have never felt so overweight as I did at a team building exercise at work on Wednesday. We had a scavenger hunt at the zoo. By the end of the day, I thought I was going to keel over. Next year I will be up for the challenge. I can't wait.

Shopping ANYWHERE for clothes... Plus size clothes are always so expensive!

Wearing a bracelet/watch comfortably!

Weighing less than my husband!

Not ALWAYS worrying that I'm the biggest person in the room.

I am so looking forward to these .....

1. Having all my shoes fit again.

2. Buying boots and not having to have wide calf ones .

3. Not having to ask for a seat belt extender when i travel or worry about fitting in the airplane restroom.

I just thought of another one.

When someone parks their car a little too close, I don't want to have to suffer the embarrassment of not being able to squeeze into my car. :(

Besides the normal ones, shopping in the regular clothes, no more meds for health issues...

1) buying a bra at Victoria Secrets and pushing the girls back up where they belong.

2) coughing and not having to cross my legs. The mommy cough as my friends call it.

3) not having to worry about camel toe when I wear pants.

What are you looking forward to?

I am looking forward to the following:

1. Walking through a restaurant without picking out a path first because I can't fit between chairs.

2. Playing softball with my daughter

3. Being able to walk into any store and start shopping without having to ask were the "PLUS" sizes are.

4. Sitting in a chair and crossing my legs.

I will be sleeved on November 19th. :clap2:

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