My first NSV posting!!! Not that I haven't had them, but THIS one is something I have been waiting for for a long time...

This morning I PUT ON MY BF'S BRAND NEW JEANS AND THEY FIT!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, I SO wanted to be able to do that when I went to visit him a couple months ago, but I was at least an inch away from them buttoning.

Okay, they are skin tight, but STILL!!!

They're Rustlers 40x30 REGULAR CUT straight leg jeans. And I had them ON. OMG OMG OMG!!

Here's the weird thing, too... I could have sworn I tried them on a month or so ago, and still couldn't get them buttoned. My weight has basically stablized since April 12th - it ranges from 201-213 between then and now.... My low is posted as 201, but I was 207.5 this morning. I was 211.5 the day I flew off to Europe in April - when the pants were at LEAST an inch too small at the waist.

So for those of you for whom the scale is not moving, I'M TELLING YOU - the body does secret compacting stuff, even when the scale doesn't move.

A gal who's only worked here a month and a half caught me in the bathroom yesterday and said, "You've been losing a LOT of weight, haven't you?!" I laughed, because when she started 6/21 I was 204.5. Yesterday I was 208. But I AM smaller - I can feel it in my clothes. This comment from her was based on her observations over the past month and a-half only - NOT on previous knowledge of my weightloss history.

I'm not working out, so it can't be muscle shrinking my body but replacing the weight...

So I don't know why, I don't know how, and I don't really care... I'm still shrinking, no matter what the scale says. So there, scale!

Just remember, everyone, when you get one of those urges to "live on the edge", it may come back and haunt you at any time!!! lol

DeLarla made me do it!!

Sorry to be so incommunicado - life with BF has been a dream come true, and we've been traveling every weekend and running around during the week once I get home from work, and it seems I barely have time to turn around these days.

My eating has not been so mindful these past few weeks, and I had not been in the habit of eating three full meals a day any longer, particularly not mostly in restaurants where there is always bread and potatos offered/included, so I have crept out of my 10lb "safety zone" as of Monday - +14.5 pounds from my low of 200.5.

I know that once we stop eating out and I get back into my walking routine all will return to normal, but being tired anyway, I confess I'm feeling a little down. Nothing like before, of course. But I need to start asking those hard questions again before I choose what I eat, and why...

Lisa G., it all makes sense now, knowing that you're just now seeing the bra pics... lol On a regular day, no, I wouldn't post the saggy boob collage. But you never know what I might do on one of those "wild hair" days!!

:laugh

Wild hair days....whats that like I wonder. Maybe once I lose more weight like you and Delarla I'll start riding motor bikes and posting boob pics! Hey, I might even combine the two. I can see it now...Delarla can I borrow your bike and Donali your bra for the pics?

Donali-

I was hoping that your quietness was a result of having wonderful times with your new live in lovaaaa :-).

Sorry to hear that you're struggling. My heart goes out to you and I think of you often.

One of the things I've learned since banding (and I'm sure you already know this but I just wanted to give you a friendly reminder) is that there is sometimes GOOD stress in our lives- any change can create stress and trigger old habits- even good stuff. Try not to be too hard on yourself and keep tabs on that black and white thinking!!!!!!

I just hope you know that you've got a bunch of people here rooting for you and will love you no matter what!

Megan

Yeah, everything she said...

Thanks, guys... **sniff** You're the best.

As TallGuy so aptly reminds us, this site is ADDICTIVE... :knockedou

Donali, I saw your bra on the cover of my mailing from Lane Bryant, but it looks much better on you!

Nancy

Donali is beautiful, brilliant, skinny, a home builder, in love, and now an underwear model! Is there no stopping this girl? You go, girl!

Donali,

Congratulations on the pants victory.!!! I go away for a day or two and all hell breaks loose on the this site. And they called me the wild partying Las Vegas girl.....

Babs in TX

334/194/170

-140

LOL Babs

Donali, where at in Germany did your BF live? Our foriegn exchange student is from Germany. He'll be here in the states right after Christmas.

Donali, where at in Germany did your BF live?

He was in Mannheim.

I like this new format, for the most part, but I'm missing a bizillion threads, I'm afraid... It's like the new posts are being automatically marked read before I get to them, and I miss the "Get New Posts" buttons that linked to recent posts whether they'd been read or not...

Learning curves - I hate 'em...

I had to do a search to find this one.