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This is the best topic ever! I'm getting excited reading everyone's ideas, here are mine:

- looking good in my wedding dress (!!!!!) on October 17, 2015

- giving Lane Bryant the middle finger

- wearing a bathing suit that isn't a dress

- continuing my pole dancing classes and getting very strong

- joining a baseball team (softball who?)

- feeling good about full-body pictures

- fitting in the desks at school (starting bachelor's in the fall)

- that look on my fiance's face. yeah ladies, you know the one!!

- getting pregnant when we're ready and not worrying about complications

:)

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I seriously thought I was the only one with the sweating issue. I am looking forward to being able to do my make up at home and not worry about sweating it off from the walk from my house to the car, which is only 20 feet.

Not avoiding looking at the reflection of my body.

Not sweating. I cannot say that enough.

Buying clothes from a section that is not plus size.

Being able to borrow my BFF's clothes.

I want to shop at American Eagle. And Pac Sun. And athleta. And Lululemon.

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I want to be able to kayak with my daughters and have the energy to keep up with them! Feeling good about myself and being healthy again!

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Being able to comfortably paint my toenails. Not shopping in the plus sizes. Comfortably sitting in the seat at the movies. Going on a roller coaster without fear of not fitting. Actually feeling beautiful when my boyfriend tells me I am. ♡

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I'm looking forward to being more active with my kids: buying regular sized clothes: wearing a bathing suit and not shorts and a tee shirt: not being out of breath: shedding 2 chins keeping 1: smaller shoes size: Being healthy overall...

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I am looking forward to just feeling better and not being in anymore pain when I walk. I am also looking forward to being able to spend time with my children and being able to keep up with there activities without being tired all the time.

Squat down and get back up without using hands.

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I have another. This may seem strange but I look forward to smaller clothes not taking up so much space when packing. I feel like my clothes now are so big that they take up a lot of space in my overnight bag (or I just pack a lot lol).

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I look forward to feeling pretty again. I have been thin all of my life. My emotional eating over the past 4 years has really packed on the lbs. I hope to get into my bikinis once again and to feel better health wise.

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I'm looking forward to not having my size consume my every thought! In the past few years I've put on a lot of weight and at this point I feel like no matter what I'm doing or where I am, my mind tortures me with self doubt and worry about what everyone else is thinking about me. It's exhausting. Looking forward to putting that behind me and replacing those feelings with pride, ethusiasm and happiness!

And yeah...I'm also looking forward to dancing and being part of the action instead of watching the action!!

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Well, this is more a "what I looked forward to that actually happened". I had looked forward to going to the beach in a non skirted swimsuit and feeling good and totally unselfconscious. That happened today! Yay me! Thanks to all of you and this forum for giving me a place to say this!

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Shopping in the smaller sizes at Ross lmbo! I know that's weird but I like Ross' prices. ????

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Seeing if I might have a thigh gap! Lmboooooo! Really though I think I might. ????????????????????????

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Smaller underwear. Yeah that'd be nice. Real talk. I am cracking myself up with this topic.

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Going to hockey games next season and concerts at the Bridgestone arena where the seats are kind of small and when I get up to cheer or so the wave my thighs get scraped. #tngirl

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