No, little skinny person I did not know I was overweight!

[Coookies 12]

Hi~!!! Welcome!!! LOL about this board being more addictive than facebook!! I love how we can use our status updates to say things we might be able to tell those around us, and there are so many supportive and wonderful people.. this site rocks!!!

BTW: I live in Korea, and I'm surrounded by these tiny little people.... (ok I'm 5'8", not tall, but I rarely meet a woman who is even close to my height).. and some lady will come up to me, scan me from toe to head like some creep checking me out... and then will say,,, "you're fat!!" and sometimes I say, "ohh, really, i didn't know that" while acting shocked... Other times I will tell them I can go on a diet, but they need plastic surgery to look halfway pretty... it depends on the mood I'm in

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@starygrl.

I feel for you, I worked for a bout 4 yrs in a korean context and sometimes the cultural difference is dramatic. Lol. It is what it is. Hang in there, ignore the cultural ignorance and enjoy the nang myung.

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My flight is booked! Arriving in San Diego may 9th. Gonna enjoy the night life before heading down the next morning. Whew can't believe it's actually happening!! Oh and I had a pretty cool morning. I was a lowes picking up material for a job and the cashier (whom I think is stunning, and asked out once not knowing ahe was engaged, and is no longer) says to me hey, are u losing weight, your look great! I smile said "ah shucks ma'am" in my best southern drawl, chatted for a minute flirting mercilessly, with her grinning eat to eat. Then walked out thinking yeah, just wait till a few months from now. Mwahahaha!

[pasquini 369]

That should have been war to ear, Hmmmm Freudian slip? :-D

[sychadelic 10]

Welcome aboard, and congrats on getting booked. Here's to a thinner future and more Lowe's flirtin'.

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I hate iPhone auto correct

[pasquini 369]

I just booked my hotel, decided to roll the dice with price line. I stated 4 star hotel in downtown San Diego for 110.00 I am staying at the Sheridan hotel and marina! Their site lowest rate is just over $210 a night. :-) just keeps getting better. Woot! *extremely dorky happy dance*

[meggiep 57]

I like that hotel a lot- call and ask for the newest tower. FYI if you use hot-wire you can often do even better and better bidding dot com identifies the hotels...

I'll be having my surgery while you're playing in SD!

[happy1957 138]

Good morning Pasquini,

It is very early am, I'm sitting here drinking my coffee and I like yourself have been poking around here. I am much older, sailing in the same boat. I just wanted you to know that I feel out of sorts today and your letter cracked me up and gave me a whole new look at what the rest of my day may look like. I am female, 54 and have fought the same 40-50lbs for 40 years and have NEVER reached my goal. The sleeve sounds like the right tool for me since my BMI is on the lower side. I have attended the orientation and first support group meetings. Unfortunately I am in no position to pay for it myself, but if my insurance approves it, I hope to follow through. This venue sure is encouraging. I wish you the best of luck and anytime you would like to throw me a smile. I'd appreciate it.. Have a great day!! Happy.....

Hello, I have lurked around here for a while, taking sips of information like so many of you with you Protein shakes. I feel I know some of you already. So I thought to myself. "hey, introduce yourself to these lovely folks, and join in on the ride."

I am like many of you am a life long overweight fella, done the diets, listened to the little people expond the virtues of eating less, moving more, all the while thinking, "yeah, ok toothpick boy with the memory foam office chair molded to your half a cheek butt, come spend one day fabricating and installing granite countertops with me and then talk to me about moving more while I carry you back to the truck after the work day" I mean really, why is it that skinny people never know how little they are? always talking about needing to lose 5 more pounds? Don't they get how small they are? When's the last time you heard one of our metabolicly hyper-efficient-selves say something that indicates we do not know our size? heck i do every time some skinny person gives me advice or bemoans the need to lose another few lbs, I hold my gut and say, yeah, I so get that, If I could just gain 5 more lbs I'd be so happy, right where I need to be sheesh look in a mirror people. lol, oh sorry I digress

Anyway, so I have been researching surgery for 4 yrs, lapband was my first choice, then about a year ago I started looking at the sleeve and decided that was the way I wanted to go. I have been looking forward to the day when I could begin this journey, your stories have helped me stay focused on the goal (i'm self-pay) well i just filed my taxes and with the return will finally have enough (if i go with the dr. that advertises here for 4400.00) to have the surgery. To say I am excited is like saying the moon is kinda big.

I am both excited and nervous all at once, at 39 I thought that feeling was gone with, prom, my wedding night and size less than 50 pants.

So, im 39, 5'8" was 310 at my heavyest 18 months ago, I have lost 40lbs since my heaviest, but have been stuck here for 10 months. I am looking forward to this journey, toward, health, comfortable airplane rides, amusment parks, sitting on the floor without a wall to lean on, a sexy self, well ok really who knows, i have never been little and i could get then and then be ugly, i mean hey, there are alot of skinny people that are not so umm, well, not ugly. Anyway, Thought i'd say hi and introduce myself.

Pasquini

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Husky2healthy.

Bwaha. I so wore those. Lol. Man it hated those. Those and rustler. Yes it certainly seem that women are the majority around here. Whuch I'm ok with I suppose. I went to a mostly womens college in the south, which worked out very well unless u got stuck holding the door after chapel, u were there holding the door for 10 min unless some other fella was dumb enough to try to walk through it. Lol

Whats up Bro...huskie jeans...hahahaha......rolled up of course!

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@empress. Go ahead belt it out! Maybe I should get that for my iPod for the trip. It could be my theme song! Kinda like when wrestlers enter the arena and their song plays while they give high fives and air waves to the fans on their way to the ring. Hmmm I might have to talk to my coordinator. I can see it now.... *enter dream sequence, blury vision music starts, focus returns, que announcer* and in this corner, in the pale blue open backed gown, weighing in at 270lbs, from Oklahoma pas-----qui------niiiiiiii!!!!!!! *all the other patients going wild, creating a throng as I wave and sign autographs, stopping to take a picture with a baby or two (though I can't imagine why someone has brought their child to the clinic, sheesh people!) lights are flashing, camera's are snapping away, clothing is being thrown, (oops wrong dream sequence, sry about that folks)* then the announcer breaks in and in this corner refusing to weigh in, coming all the way from inside the land of gastrouka, undefeated, heavy weight champion of the buffet world, "The Stom------ach" today bout will go 1 50 minute round, loser leaves the other alone forever! Crowd goes wild!!!!!!!* (end dream sequence). Or something like that.

Pasquini:

Once you're sleeved you'll be "livin' the dream"!! Loved the dream sequence picture in my mind. I think theme songs are a way to keep us motivated. Mine is "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen!

So if you're from OK does BOLO'd mean anything to ya? (Have a friend from OK who says BOLO'd a bit....)

Empress

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@happy1957.

It's never to late to make a change, I have been 4 yes waiting for this. The wait can be very discouraging, hang in there, never give up sweetie! Soon you'll trade in those sails for a sleek jet ski!

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@hip

Rolled up! Yeah what's with these manufactures! Fat kids aren't taller just because they are wide. It not proportionate here! Lol yup rolled hm up or walked em off. . The absolute worse was in 5th grade Jordash jeans where the bomb! Well you can guess they didn't have them in my size, of course. (So my mom, bless her heart for trying.) bought printed denim fabric, made me Jeans and (1000 points if you see where this is going) painted (yes painted) a horse on the back pocket! Haha. I still remember deciding to wear them to not hurt her feelings. Lol. Yeah there were some bloody nose at school over those. Haha.

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@empress

Yes I am looking forward to Dreamland. BOLO'd Nope can't say I have heard that. Or know what it means. Now OREO'd I know :-)

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@empress

Yes I am looking forward to Dreamland. BOLO'd Nope can't say I have heard that. Or know what it means. Now OREO'd I know :-)

I thought BOLO'd meant "bowled over", but he told me it was "Be on the Lookout" So, once you're sleeved I'll be BOLO'd for that sleek GTO roarin' down the road -- it's gonna be the winner in the PASQUINI 500........

OREO'd?

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