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DroppinLikeItsHot    52

DroppinLikeItsHot
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Surgery 2/19

I'm looking forward to not hiding in long sleeve clothes during the hot summer months and everyone looking at my like I'm weird.

I'm looking forward to buying a swimming suit for the first time in a decade.

I'm looking forward to setting a better health example for my daughter.

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lclemur    161

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Getting up and down off of the floor. This is unbelievably demoralizing. It is especially an issue since I teach first grade. I want to shop in "normal" size clothing section. It is more about health and feeling good for me. Looking better will certainly help my self confidence.

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njbelybean    10

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Sleeved on the 9th. Looking forward to summer and wearing smaller clothes. Not wearing a 2X.....

Keeping up with our grandchildren.

Feeling sexy at 61 years of age!

Attending summer wedding in sleeveless dresses!

Not having between the thigh ! :)

The list could go on ....

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FinallyFit50s    202

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I'm being sleeved February 26th.

I'm looking forward to:

Going to China with my sister and mother at the end of April-being able to walk up and down the Great Wall, the Forbidden City and everywhere else for 15 glorious days.

To fit into a pair of jeans that I saved from the last time I was 148 pounds-they are this white wash denim, and back in style-by the end of the year. Lmao!

To wear a fabulous white Cache dress that I already bought for my Seven Sisters college graduations laurel parade in May.

To get back out and date after 5 years of self-imposed exile.

To FINALLY not be the "fat" one in my family.

There are sooooo many more things I'm looking forward to. I have "let go" of so much baggage since beginning this journey. I look forward to continuing on this path as me, just a thinner version.

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FinallyFit50s    202

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OMG, just found this thread again. How things have changed in six short months! China was the trip of a lifetime. I didn't swell up, was comfortable walking the many miles each day. At one point it was over 22,000 steps before my counter died.

The jeans will fit in another twenty-five or so pounds. I tried them on the other week and was able to get them up. No where buttoning, and they have NO STRETCH! But, before the end of the year, I'll be posting a pic.

Graduation, I wore that fabulous dress and it fit beautifully. I was happy and proud of ALL my accomplishments.

Still haven't dated, yet. Working on it, writhing the next few weeks, I'll make myself go on at least one. Lol.

And finally, I'm NOT the fat one in the family. My mother, who doesn't know, and won't, called me her "skinny" daughter. It felt wonderful.

I'm still a work in progress, and it is something I'll probably be doing the rest of my life. It's a journey, all right. I am going to enjoy every precious day of it!!!!!

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vickylg    36

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I was sleeved 2/26/15

I have currently lost 102 lbs

Best thing I could have ever done for myself. I'm thrilled for the fact I no longer have to wear stretch waste band pants. Yay. I also can get around and do my own shopping. How are you doing??

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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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      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

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        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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