Buy pretty summer sundresses!

Go to my husband's gigs and dance! (No more staying home with a "headache"!)

Ride my horse! Often!

Join in a mud run!

Get on my hands and knees and dig in my flower beds!

Go tubing!

Actually go to my school reunions!

I am getting more excited every day. This site is so great, so positive. I love it.

Those are great NSV's to look forward to. I'm still amazed when I get up and down from the floor under my own power!

Pre-suregery, I always had to have a chair or desk nearby to pull myself up. Next NSV... putting the tray table all the way down in the airplane!

I love this post. Here are some little things I want to do:

Ride my bike to work without having to walk up the (pretty small) hills.

Get on the floor to play with my grandchildren without pains in my back, knees and hips.

Go shopping in the regular size section of a fashionable store, find something cute and then buy it because it fits.

Go to Disneyland and be able to ride on the rides without embarrassment.

Wear a bathing suit in public.

So Im looking through my notes on my phone. I find my list of things I cant wait for post-op. Its dated November 2013. I was sleeved 2/3/14. 19 weeks and a couple of days ago. Im down ~78 lbs since surgery and ~125 lbs since December of 2013. Ive been taken off 4 meds and have lost almost 45 inches from head to toe.here is my list of things I couldnt wait for:

1) fit behind the steering wheel...done.... Not only fit but I have moved my seat forward.

2 )not to have the seat belt choke me out. done

3) eat with out wearing the food....done

4) fit into a booth. done... I cried when I slid in beside my wife...so totally awesome

5) climb stairs at work....done my fitbit stats say I did 93 flights last week at work (I work in a large hospital)

6) skinny dip...oh so close the wife has agreed to join me at a naturalist beach...( gotta wait for the weather...it Michigan lol)

7) fit into 98 % of my clothes...done and then some...I have blazed past my 4Xs, 3Xs and some of my 2Xs...Im melting !!!

8) have a lap/cross my legs...done effortlessly I may add on the crossing of the legs

9) skinny dip......see # 6 I was the fat kid who swam in a Tshirt since I was 12....FREEDOM BABY !!!

10) dump my CPAP device...oh so close..I need to read my card to check my AHI.

In December of 2013 I was 426 lbs... Its been an awesome journey so far and im loving life again.

These are such awesome replies! BWaltD, I don't know you but I am so proud of you! You are an absolute inspiration! God bless you and keep up the hard work! And keep us all updated!

I marveled today when I slipped into a size L slim fitting tank top for my lunch time cardio (followed by a strength class tonight). I looked like every other person in that locker room. Wearing athletic clothing, who woulda thought? Working out twice in one day, is this really me?!

Buying clothing styles previously way off limits is fun!

I am down 107lbs so far and my surgery date was February 22nd 2013. Feeling great!

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