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I won't miss sticking a needle in my stomach and injecting something that could possibly cause cancer into my body!!! Bruises are a normal thing to my stomach and my fingers can get feeling back into them after poking needles into them several times a day!!!!

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Im not going to miss buying boots that are wide calf also buying pants that are big on me bcos I have big thighs but small waist finding that prefect dress but its just not in your size everyone saying oh you have a pretty face but what about the rest of me wanting to put on a bikini but just dont have the courage people with their rude remarks they say to others but not to your face

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I cannot wait...

to not be hungry 24/7

to fit in a towel after a bath. I have to use beach towels, and they barely wrap around me all the way.

to not have back pain and knee pain... i am 26 and i used to not have this.

to shop at a normal store. I love fashion.... I want to be able to shop everywhere, not just one place.

to fit in all my shoes again. My feet have beccome so fat that i wear a whole size bigger. plus a W shoe.

There are so many more things, i could go on and on.

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@@Aribay1 I overspend on food all the time because i cannot decide, and i always feel hungry.

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I WILL NOT MISS BEING ASKED IF I'M PREGNANT! (AND THE INEVITABLE EMOTIONAL BREAKDOWN THAT HAPPENS AFTER SOMEONE SAYS THAT TO ME.)

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As I am about to get ready for work, another thing I will not miss is having to wear so many things under my scrubs. Everyday I have to wear a girdle and Spanx underneath my uniform because scrubs are so light of a material, every lump and bump shows. It's bad enough I am hot already, but with the added materials and the fact that I try to keep a sweater on to hide my arms, it's just too much. I can't wait to be able to wear just a bra and panty with my clothes and not all these extra items.

yay for me no more 5x scrubs.

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I will NOT miss feeling awkward in social situations because I'm the biggest person there.

I will NOT miss not being able to shop with my friends because they don't sell plus sized clothes in the stores they like.

I will NOT miss worrying about when the inevitable diabetes will kick in.

I will NOT miss the dread I always have before I have to get on a scale at the doctor's office.

I will NOT miss wearing bigger clothes than and weighing 100 pounds more than my husband.

I will NOT miss feeling like I'm being judged while eating because I'm fat.

I could go on and on...

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@@Aribay1 I overspend on food all the time because i cannot decide, and i always feel hungry.

Yeah its horrible and such a pain to hide

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I do not and will not miss my shelf that the top of my bum had. This is something that my hubby loved to rub and grab but I absolutely hated it. I am glad its gone. It's like someone shaved it off.

I will not miss that fat lump on my neck.

I will not miss the odor. I feel comfortable being around people now.

I will not miss my fat head or face.

Are you serious? That lump on my neck will go away???????!!!! I'm all in now!

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I will not miss the pain from the weight affecting my arthritis. I will not miss the increased pain from fibromyalgia. I will not miss feeling fat when I make love to my husband. I will not miss feeling uncomfortable in my clothes. I will not miss fear of running into someone I know. I will not miss feeling like I'll always be fat.

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I Will not miss feeling all of my extra layers jiggling and bouncing as I exercise!

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Everybody has established a lot of things that I will not miss.

•My car is low so I will not miss sliding out like snake to get out.

•The pain I endure going food shopping cause my knees are shot.

•Will not missed carrying the laundry to the basement like a 90 year old!

•Will not miss spending more $ on plus sized clothes only because it has more material like Lands End and LLBean

This can go on but I do miss my baths. Bending of knees and trying to get out had made impossible !!

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I won't miss:

lying about my weight on my driver's license, carpooling in a two-door vehicle and stressing whether I'm going to get stuck getting into and out of the back seat, being on an elevator full of people and hoping that it doesn't lurch because I know they'll automatically think its because of me, fearing fire drills at work because it requires walking down four flights of stairs and then walking another two blocks to the meeting place, checking the window before I leave work everyday to see if the path is clear to the parking garage so no one will see my face turning red and my gasps for breath.

What I want to do:

Take a spinning class, get down on my hands and knees without worrying whether I can get up again, get up to go to the bathroom in a crowded movie theater without worrying that my butt is hitting everyone in the face as I squeeze by, feel confident that I have a better average chance of surviving a zombie apocalypse because I can actually run now! :-)

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Always having tons of clothes (because they span 6 sizes), as my weight has been more volatile than the emerging markets index...and nothing to wear, because now my "fat" clothes are getting too tight!

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    • BeanitoDiego

      Oh yeah, something I wanted to rant about, a billing dispute that cropped up 3 months ago.
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