Every once in awhile I try on my fat pants and stare in the mirror at just how far I have come. WELL today I finally had my husband take a picture of me holding up my fat pants that I used for my pre-op pictures and WOW! Seeing it in a picture is even crazier than just looking in a mirror. As stubborn and cranky as my sleeve can be, I am SO thankful to be where I am today :smile1: Sorry can't seem to shrink these pictures down, I will work on that when I get home

Wow thanks for sharing it gives me hope. I'm a size 16/18 and would love to be a 6.

What a result! Can I ask did you get a lot of lose skin? I think I will be lucky and not have too much. I'm 220 and hope to be about 140 or 130!!

WOW!!! That is really amazing!

I didn't keep my pants. I passed them on to a friend who was coming down the size scale and she has passed them on since.... Kinda like the traveling pants...lol!

You look fabulous!!! Congratulations!!1

Passing on the fat clothes is a great thing to do! I have gotten rid of EVERYTHING except the jeans and the shirt I am wearing in my initial pics. Speaking of which it's time to do another closet clean out. Poor pathetic closet haha. I have been able to successfully get both legs into one pant leg. So crazy.

Punkypoo, my skin is not that bad, except my stomach. I have had 3 c-sections and carried twins so my stomach is pretty trashed and will need to be repaired but it needed to be fixed when I was fat anyways. My arms don't look bad unless I lift them out and pull down on the skin ha. My thighs and butt are somewhat giggly but really nothing like the people at my support group. And you definitely cannot tell if I am dressed. Even with my stomach being as bad as it is, it hids pretty well. My boobs totally deflated but I was pretty small in that department to begin with :/ I do not exercise so I am sure that if I did the giggly skin would tighten up.

You look fabulous! Our beginning stats and goal are almost the same. I have been glad to say good bye to the size 20's, but I can't imagine ever getting to a size 2.

Great job working your sleeve, thanks for the inspirational post.

I never thought it was possible. I thought I would be lucky to ever fit a size 8 and before I knew it I was in a 6 and it just kept on going ha. Now I am kind of nervous to see what size I will fit once I have my stomach repaired, I measured the flat area under the fat around my c-section scar and it is 3 inches smaller than that skin that will be removed :/

wow that is amazing.. you look absolutely wonderful.. and you did all that and dont work out.. IM JEALOUS! and it doesn't look like you have any excess skin..you were beautiful before and you are absolutely gorgeous now! congrats on rockin that sleeve!

Thanks so much for this post!! You look amazing--congratulations on your achievement!!

I'm really starting to wonder where I'm going to end up size-wise--I, too, have a "cranky" sleeve--LOVE that term for it, BTW--and I don't work out regularly. You are a lot younger than I, but you look like everything's bounced back just wonderfully. You give me hope! :-) Keep us posted, please! Would love to keep up with where you are and how things are going!

WOW!! Totally unreal! You look like you'd fit into one leg! Great inspiration for new sleevers like me! Thanks for posting!