That there were 2 maybe 3 skinny people inside of me just screamin' to get out. Now I'm down to 1 1/4!

LOL

Hmm...

I used to say, "I'm going on a diet starting (Monday, New Year's Day, whatever day)... I'm really gonna do it this time"

Now, I really DID it this time!!!

.....we weren't made to have it all. I already have brains, bronze, boobs, and beauty.

Now I'm going for the 10 and I deserve to have it all. We all deserve to have it all!!!

...its because I broke my leg, its because my thryroid is messed up, excuses, excuses. No more excuses! I take responsibilty for my actions and am making changes to my eating to get to the new me.

...if it weren't for people like me, skinny people wouldn't look so good. Now I kick myself for saying that!

I have a picture of me and my neice at her baby shower comparing bellies...mine was bigger.

I'll get back to my skinny self. You'll see!! I always said that to my mom and dad and even my husband but it never happened!! Now that I'm sleeved, I dont have to say that! I'll just show them!!!

Good topic... I used to put everything off ... I'll go training when I am x stone/pounds ... I will look good when I am x stone/pounds... lot of things that I put off; basically my life was on hold whilst the fat consumed me and my whole self!! Oh what a complete waste of years and energy... now, I just do it!!

I used say over and over many things, but they all sounded like Annie..."tomorrow, tomorrow, I love you tomorrow" because I was going to beat my desire to eat everything in site, tomorrow. I was going to have control over me, tomorrow. I was going to be better for myself, tomorrow. I was not going to fail this time, starting tomorrow I was going to buy that diet plan, excercise equipment to help me lose weight, tomorrow.

Thank you for this thread. Now I say... I love my sleeve! and No regrets!

i was like iegal, i used to say sooooo many things but tomorrow never came for me. . . until December 29th, 2009. . . . then it finally came. . . now i've lost all my weight minus about 20 lbs and i don't have that much loose skin (not enough for surgery anyhow) no wrinkles (and at 50 that is a plus) no problems at all. . . but now i wish i didn't have the sleeve. The sliming has gotten the best of me after almost 2 years. . . it's really sickening. . . can't even eat 1 egg without the slimies starting never mind a nice meal out. . . . . . ugh I know i'm only having a pitty party with myself and i should just get over it, but i'm allowed as a person. . . . thanks for listening. . .

I'm big because my hubby is a chbby chaser (he loves BBW but I was big WAAAYYYY before I met him).

I tell people I have a lot of muscle underneath all this fat. I just need to exercise a little!

Coops and iegal, you both said it so well! I often found myself feeling like I was stuck in inertia, and if I could just get started... tomorrow... things would be better. :-)

One thing that I thought but didn't say was how free I would feel to be rid of all my fat, and even though I have a ways to go, that seems to be sooooo true. I feel so much better and so much more free!!! I <3 my sleeve!

I used to say, "no thanks, i dont want to go out tonight" mainly because i felt so fat and ugly and had no nice clothes.

Now i never turn an invitation down and am never in!

I'd always bail on plans with friends, saying I was tired or busy--when really I was just avoiding being uncomfortable (particularly in theater seats and little wooden restaurant chairs that felt like they would collapse under me).

My favorite line to myself, which I stole from a bumper sticker, was "Fat people are harder to kidnap." That one still makes me giggle.

I used to say "Don't get between a fat girl and her food. It's dangerous". I was the one always making jokes about my weight while, inside, I was dying of embarrassment. I'm still big, but I don't make fat jokes anymore. It's not funny and, SOOON, I will be at a good, healthy weight. I feel so much more alive now than I did before!!!