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What all did you have done with your plastics? How cool that you're at goal and done with PS too!

I'm actually not near my goal weight. I lost 130 lbs and kept it off the past 2 years. When I asked my pcp for the referral I told him I just wanted a consult to see how much more I would have to lose. He told me it's not about a number it's when I was ready. Maintaining my weight loss was key. He felt I was ready and I will feel much better having it done. I expected the dr to tell me I needed to lose more weight. He never said that.... Instead congratulated me for losing weight and saying how proud he was of me!!!

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I'm actually not near my goal weight. I lost 130 lbs and kept it off the past 2 years. When I asked my pcp for the referral I told him I just wanted a consult to see how much more I would have to lose. He told me it's not about a number it's when I was ready. Maintaining my weight loss was key. He felt I was ready and I will feel much better having it done. I expected the dr to tell me I needed to lose more weight. He never said that.... Instead congratulated me for losing weight and saying how proud he was of me!!!

Well 130 lbs is definitely something g to be proud of! Congrats :)

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I have a basket in my closet where I dump clothes immediately after putting them on and then seeing that they are even slightly too big. I'm done being fat,.

I LOVE this idea!!

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I have boxes and stacks of clothes too. The nice pieces will go to consignment, the more used stuff will get donated, and the worn or stained stuff tossed. I am 15 lbs from goal so I have replaced almost all of my clothes, underwear, and outerwear at this point. I definitely have wasted some $ buying stuff that I shrank out of a month later but it was so worth it. The thrill of buying missy clothes once I got into them was amazing. Yeah still kicking myself for the $40 bra from Fredrick's that only fit for 6 weeks but whatever. I'm worth it!

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I will feel no sense of loss whatsoever, when I can get rid of my fat clothes. Everything still fits, except my knickers are too big. No-one can see them, and I'm too cheap to by new ones until they reach my diaphragm!

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I have gone from a size 18 to a 6/8 since March and on the way have shed 24 sacks of clothes, all to local charity shops. Yes, I was also a shopaholic as well as a food addict. Doing everything to excess seems to be a thread running through my life.....

The majority of the clothes had been accumulated over the years to cover all eventualities, some are the same thing in a couple of sizes to allow for "fat days" or maybe that should have been "fatter days"! The rest were bought and barely worn as I swept through the different sizes, sometimes in the course of only a month.

I have kept three items from when I was at my biggest. When I feel like I am not making progress and start looking at myself with an unnecessarily self-critical eye, I dig out the jacket, dress and trousers. All of them were clothes that made me feel good and they still do cos I laugh when I wrap the jacket round me or put two legs into one leg of my trousers.

So in the euphoria of clearing, keep even just one thing so that when you begin to forget how you looked (and you will!!!) and start to fret about how well you are doing, you can dig it out and see the real difference you have made and how far you have come :-)

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I need to go through my closet...I have been putting it off cuz I think in scared they will all still fit and that would just be waaaayyy too depressing!!

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It's almost too soon for me. I am taking to heart the advice about summer stuff. But then too, like most of us I will be able to "shop my closet" for a while.

That said, I have a wedding next week and I know that the dress I have that would be perfect for it will most likely no longer fit me. It's one of those Adrianna Papell banded-type dresses in a 16W, and it seems like all of my weight has come from around my waist. I'm going to try it on just to be sure, but I have a sinking feeling it's going to hang in all of the wrong places. I actually thought about buying a new dress but I can't justify buying a 14W or 16 dress right now that would fit for a month or two…when I have nothing else to wear it to. There are a couple of things in my closet but they are blah.

So if any of you can get a pretty 14W cocktail dress for an hourglass figure up to me in the next 24 hours, I'd be appreciative.

:lol:

Patience. I has none.

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I have gone from a size 20 to a 10 since March and have been cleaning out the closet along the way. Most have gone to Goodwill but I have picked out a few designer things and sold them on ebay (a little hobby of mine). In the spring I am having a garage sale to raise money for my sons baseball team playing at Cooperstown in the summer. I hope to have some more clothes to sell by then.

I also had a ton of clothes because every time I got an invitation to any kind of social event I would feel awful about what people would think of what I looked like so I would buy a new outfit in hopes that it would make me look better. I don't think it worked but- now I am buying only a few things at a time and at real cheap prices. I bought a pair of pants at Walmart yesterday for $9! My closet looks positively barren and I am loving it. Saving so much time getting dressed because I only have like 5 options right now.

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The only things I have left to wear daily are 2 pairs of lee riders from Walmart which I love because I can wear 12's (even though I am a 14) and several $7.94 t-shirts, also from walmart, in a variety of colors. So basically my entire outfit cost less than $30. And it looks better on me than outfits that cost a lot more than that when I weighed more.

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I just donated 7 big garbage bags of clothes to the thrift store run by our local battered women's shelter & it felt really good to get rid of that stuff. I wish I had thought to take pix for the tax report, though!

I have so much more stuff I need to bag up. My feet have shrunk, so a lot of my shoes are too big now. That bums me out way more than the clothes! I should probably also donate my wedding dress. It was my 2nd wedding, so the dress is a nice beige evening gown with dark metallic allover beading.

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It's almost too soon for me. I am taking to heart the advice about summer stuff. But then too, like most of us I will be able to "shop my closet" for a while. That said, I have a wedding next week and I know that the dress I have that would be perfect for it will most likely no longer fit me. It's one of those Adrianna Papell banded-type dresses in a 16W, and it seems like all of my weight has come from around my waist. I'm going to try it on just to be sure, but I have a sinking feeling it's going to hang in all of the wrong places. I actually thought about buying a new dress but I can't justify buying a 14W or 16 dress right now that would fit for a month or two…when I have nothing else to wear it to. There are a couple of things in my closet but they are blah. So if any of you can get a pretty 14W cocktail dress for an hourglass figure up to me in the next 24 hours, I'd be appreciative. :lol: Patience. I has none.

Fluff, where do you live? I am about a 14/16 now and had to buy a new dress for a wedding last weekend. It's a Large, Cynthia Rowley green A-line type. I bought it at TJ-Maxx, so it's nothing extravagant, but I would be more than happy to send your way if you would like!

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It's almost too soon for me. I am taking to heart the advice about summer stuff. But then too, like most of us I will be able to "shop my closet" for a while. That said, I have a wedding next week and I know that the dress I have that would be perfect for it will most likely no longer fit me. It's one of those Adrianna Papell banded-type dresses in a 16W, and it seems like all of my weight has come from around my waist. I'm going to try it on just to be sure, but I have a sinking feeling it's going to hang in all of the wrong places. I actually thought about buying a new dress but I can't justify buying a 14W or 16 dress right now that would fit for a month or two…when I have nothing else to wear it to. There are a couple of things in my closet but they are blah. So if any of you can get a pretty 14W cocktail dress for an hourglass figure up to me in the next 24 hours, I'd be appreciative. :lol: Patience. I has none.

Fluff, where do you live? I am about a 14/16 now and had to buy a new dress for a wedding last weekend. It's a Large, Cynthia Rowley green A-line type. I bought it at TJ-Maxx, so it's nothing extravagant, but I would be more than happy to send your way if you would like!

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Ugh, tried on the purple dress and it just won't work. There are at least 2 inches of extra material on each side of the waist. Boo. (The AP dress.) I have two black ones - a shift and and a-line. With enough floofing, I suppose I can make those festive enough.

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