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Well here's another one good for a laugh. I was pretty fit during my school years and I danced and I was thin and my chest was soo small. So one day I wanted to impress a boy and wore a Water bra to make them look a bit bigger. Well it actually started to leak during our conversation!! So embarrassing lol. Well last night I went out country dancing and of course my bra didn't fit and I used the little padding thing with the liquid in it that I've had since my wedding ( they just don't make wedding dresses for girls w small boobies :) ) anyhow the whole night I was so worried that I would leak or one would fall out lol I was totally traumatized from my high school experience:)

Lmao. Sorry to laugh but you really had me cracking up. Ill share one with u too. In high school I was already a 38dd. All I wanted was to be like my friends. It wasn't working. I tried underwire bras and they popped out all over. The wires showed in the front on the sides. It was horrible. I sat at a high-school football game literally ripping the underwire out of my bra. My friends were cracking up. I swore underwire out if my life forever. Now that I've lost some weight and started drooping. I decided I needed new bras. So I got fitted and tried everything on. I decided on an underwire. The night before my cousins engagement party -to which I was gonna wear it for the first time - I woke up in a sweat from a dream that the underwire was poking me all over again and there I sat in my fancy dress pulling out the wires in the middle of this party. Oh the things that haunt us.

You should think about the gel inserts to be safe. ;)

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Love these stories! Y'all have cracked me up!!

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Lmao. Sorry to laugh but you really had me cracking up. Ill share one with u too. In high school I was already a 38dd. All I wanted was to be like my friends. It wasn't working. I tried underwire bras and they popped out all over. The wires showed in the front on the sides. It was horrible. I sat at a high-school football game literally ripping the underwire out of my bra. My friends were cracking up. I swore underwire out if my life forever. Now that I've lost some weight and started drooping. I decided I needed new bras. So I got fitted and tried everything on. I decided on an underwire. The night before my cousins engagement party -to which I was gonna wear it for the first time - I woke up in a sweat from a dream that the underwire was poking me all over again and there I sat in my fancy dress pulling out the wires in the middle of this party. Oh the things that haunt us.

You should think about the gel inserts to be safe. <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />

Gel inserts good idea! Your story is too funny!! I could so see myself waking up from a dream like that :)

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I could care less if i lose them...they are just annoying :)

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Btw I love my surgery and wouldn't change a thing:) just didn't anticipate missing them so much!

I know how you feel. We talked about it earlier in some posts. I was a 44DDD and now I am wearing a 40D. It is a huge change especially trying on clothes and I don't fill the tops out like before, no cleavage. Everything has to be pushed up and out! But, it's a problem I am happy to have because the surgery was the best thing I've ever done for me!

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My neighbor just called and said he is having a party today. Excited to see some good friends. One I have seen since I was down only 10 lbs. Wonder if she will recognize me! LOL! Have a great weekend all!

Hope it was fun,Dori! Did she recognize you?

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Missed all of y'all today..I'm such a junkie here :) I've had a rather busy day and 2 more just like it left to go. I missed checking in on everyone.

In FL we have "tax free weekend" where it's basically a savings for back to school buying. Thought I'd be in the clear waiting to go after work tonight as Fri was nearly over and the weekend is usually the worst..oh no..craziness! Thank God I just have one kiddo and my step kids do theirs with their mom. If anyone ever watched the movie Fried Green Tomatoes and remember her ramming the car yelling Tawanda..that's about what I felt like doing with my buggy :)

hoping since clothes are included as a savings I might can pick up a few things for me to wear this weekend.

Try shopping for 7

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Try shopping for 7

No way!! I'd have to be medicated! You are a strong woman!! I think God knew my patience level when he gave me 1.

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No way!! I'd have to be medicated! You are a strong woman!! I think God knew my patience level when he gave me 1.

Lol sometimes I thank I need to be medicated

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Omg I just realized I lost 8lbs in 5 days !!! Hope that doesn't mean next week I don't lose lol

HW 363lbs SD 4/16/13 CW 296lbs

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Was discharged yesterday.I either have atypical Migraines, which they are treating with gabapentin (yuck), or all this is as a result of my bypass, which I had in 2000, being blocked....I see a vascular specialist at a the university hospital where I originally had the bypass Tuesday...my graft is 70% occluded...not good. I insisted on going back to the Medical College ...I was done with the hospital for now. The food situation at the hospital was terrible...finally just brought in my own Protein. Ah well.

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Omg I just realized I lost 8lbs in 5 days !!! Hope that doesn't mean next week I don't lose lol

HW 363lbs SD 4/16/13 CW 296lbs

Awesome! Good job!

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Was discharged yesterday.I either have atypical migraines' date=' which they are treating with gabapentin (yuck), or all this is as a result of my bypass, which I had in 2000, being blocked....I see a vascular specialist at a the university hospital where I originally had the bypass Tuesday...my graft is 70% occluded...not good. I insisted on going back to the Medical College ...I was done with the hospital for now. The food situation at the hospital was terrible...finally just brought in my own Protein. Ah well.[/quote']

Glad you are home! Hope you get some answers when you see the specialist and get this all straightened out! Take care of yourself! Im on gabapentin too for my back. I was up to 2 capsules 3 times a day and I didnt like it. Was constantly tired and so groggy. I weaned myself back down to 1 capsule 3 times a day. Still feel like I cant focus properly at times. This is part of the reason I dont work. :(

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      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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