Today is (hopefully) a banner day. 3.5 months after surgery, I spent the night culling my closet and have three full clothes hampers worth of casual and work clothing to donate to Good Will.

Went from 3x and 4x shirts down to XL (so far) and 48/50 pants down to a 42.

That, I think, quantifies this as a personal NSV, and makes the whole experience worth it.

How did you feel when you got to that point?

Wayne

Edited July 23, 201412 yr by Wayne Hunt

Wow that is great! Hope you love to shop lol. I can't wait until I am where you are now. Good job and I hope you are feeling pleased as punch with yourself

Heh...I have our local mission coming tomorrow to pick up five boxes and two giant duffel bags full of clothes I've culled from my closet. Luckily, I've had to to very little shopping to replace those clothes. Yet. (I had several boxes in the attic of things I haven't worn in forever). Although I did buy a couple of cute tops and a pair of compression capris for biking. I was so excited to not have to shop in the plus-size section

How did I feel? Young again. And quite honestly, a little teary-eyed. It's hard to explain to someone who hasn't experienced this miracle just how incredible it feels to do things that you thought were forever beyond your reach.

I love walking into my closet and knowing everything in there fits me and I can wear whatever I want! It is getting close to the time when some things are big again...it is a dream come true. I am emotional about it honestly. This is such a gift to myself!

Way to go !!!! So Happy for you! It does feel good! And it feels good to Donate your clothes! I spend alot of time at Donation sites, dropping off and finding new clothes !!! Its a great feeling !!!!

I cant wait until I can do the same thing. Congratulations

I wish I could have been this patient.

I've made so many trips to donate clothes at this point that I can't even begin to count them.

Though I did make sure to keep one pair of pants and one shirt for some photos once I hit my goal.

Its a sad thing that I have kept all my skinny clothes hoping someday I can lose enough. I keep telling my wife I'll fit into those again don't throw them out. I have come so close so many time to just donate them because I just can't lose the weight no matter what.

But I am so excited that I did keep them because soon I will be doing exactly what you are doing. Instead of culling away my skinny clothes it will be my fatty clothes. I look forward to trying on my army uniform from 20 years ago and it fitting! That's my personal goal!

Its a sad thing that I have kept all my skinny clothes hoping someday I can lose enough. I keep telling my wife I'll fit into those again don't throw them out. I have come so close so many time to just donate them because I just can't lose the weight no matter what.

But I am so excited that I did keep them because soon I will be doing exactly what you are doing. Instead of culling away my skinny clothes it will be my fatty clothes. I look forward to trying on my army uniform from 20 years ago and it fitting! That's my personal goal!

Just make sure you don't wait too long to dig them out and try them on.

I had a small wardrobe of clothes downstairs of things that I'd hoped to fit back into some day. Unfortunately by the time I got them out and started trying things on I could only wear the smallest of the items and everything else was too large.

Don't get me wrong, I'm more than pleased with the 5 shirt sizes and 8 pant sizes that I've dropped so far, but for that short period I could have worn some of those things it would have been nice.

I agree with winning. I had a closet full of skinny clothes from a friend and I didn't get to wear most of them long because I thought "oh that won't fit yet." Try stuff on frequently.