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This morning, Sophia (sleeve4me) and I were invited to speak at the Kaiser Options graduating class! When we were in our class that graduated on April 2, 2010, it was one of the things that we promised ourselves that we would do - to go back after we'd had the surgery to encourage others.

It was amazing! It was crazy to see how excited everyone was about OUR weight loss! We both brought a sample of our old clothes (Sophia brought her 18W dress to show and then also showed her Junior size 9 dress that she now fits into, and I showed my size 20 pants and then they saw me in my new size 14 skinny jeans!) and used them for show and tell.

They had alot of really great questions but mostly seemed really excited to hear our stories and see our successes!

What a great feeling to be helping give hope to the people in the class! I hope we get the opportunity again! We looked at everyone and it seemed like just yesterday that WE were the ones sitting in the 12 week class. So happy to be on the other side now and having lost so much of our weight!

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What a rush! It was amazing!

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How exciting for you two. You guys are really a true inspiration and you guys also keep me motivated when I get bummed out because of the dang stalls. biggrin.gifbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gifbiggrin.gif

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We HAVE to do it again Pam :)...I hope we inspired someone today :)

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We absolutely did! Did you see the looks on their faces? They were "wow'd"! It was very cool and I am so glad that you arranged for us to do that!

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What an awesome way to give back! Congrats you two!

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That is so cool. Our support group does a fashion show every spring and I am hoping that next year I can take part of that when I am goal weight.

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That is such a great way to give back. You both are wonderful inspiration!

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Very cool! Good for you!

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That sounds like so much fun. Congratulations to both of you on your fantastic success stories!

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This morning, Sophia (sleeve4me) and I were invited to speak at the Kaiser Options graduating class! When we were in our class that graduated on April 2, 2010, it was one of the things that we promised ourselves that we would do - to go back after we'd had the surgery to encourage others.

It was amazing! It was crazy to see how excited everyone was about OUR weight loss! We both brought a sample of our old clothes (Sophia brought her 18W dress to show and then also showed her Junior size 9 dress that she now fits into, and I showed my size 20 pants and then they saw me in my new size 14 skinny jeans!) and used them for show and tell.

They had alot of really great questions but mostly seemed really excited to hear our stories and see our successes!

What a great feeling to be helping give hope to the people in the class! I hope we get the opportunity again! We looked at everyone and it seemed like just yesterday that WE were the ones sitting in the 12 week class. So happy to be on the other side now and having lost so much of our weight!

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What a rush! It was amazing!

How fabulous. . . congratulations to the both of you. . . not only is this uplifting to the class you showed and to us, but also to you and sophia. . .it's a visual of your success and it just shows how we can succeed if we really really try and keep going! Congratulations again and keep going your both doing fantastic!

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Pam and Sophia!!!! That is sooo awesome!!! Believe me you really did leave an impression to everyone there, I have no doubt at all. I was at a seminar before I had my band, and the lady who showed herself after she lost all her weight and her before pics... well I'll just never forget that as long as I live.

Congrats to you both, you have done an amazing thing!!! :)

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