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It's Tall Boot Season Again!



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These are winter wardrobe staples for me as I live in leggings, tunics and long skirts. Used to have trouble finding ones that fit an 11 AND had wide enough calves before. So this year, I put on my favs, (that were really too big last year as I lost an entire shoe size the first year post op) but I salvaged them by putting in big insoles and wearing thick socks. Apparently things "shifted more" over the summer. Weight has remained stable in maintenance, but my favorite boots look and felt like clown shoes with really open tops this year! Shopping, found that now a days, I have many more options as I'm down to a 10 shoe, :-) but the tops are still too big for my calves. I am not "skinny" by any means weighing in between 142-148 within "normal" BMI. Finally found a pair that didn't look horrible, but still pretty big up top. Heh. At least I have a place to stick my phone if I'm wearing something without pockets! What a difference 2 years makes! ;-)

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Can't wait until I can fit tall boots that don't come from a specialty store. My calves have a fair amount of muscle from my soccer days, but it's not all muscle lol.

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I am not looking forward to replacing all my boots. Nice ones are a few hundred dollars, it will be a few years before I start replacing my collection.

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Yaaaaaay

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I'm almost a year out and had a huge NSV yesterday. I could never wear high boots before. Went it to the store and pulled on a pair of knee high boots that zipped. They fit perfectly! I wanted to cry!

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Yay for boot season! This is also one of my favorite things about being normal sized again. All the boots fit over my calves! I still have thick calves probably from running, but even the smallest boots will generally go over my legs now which is fabulous.

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cant wait until I dont have to order wide calf boots!! you are an encouragement!! thanks for sharing!!

R

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No new boots here yet ... but today I bought two lovely long-sleeved, turtleneck cashmere sweaters (one is oatmeal and the other a rich, brilliant, saturated blue). Boy, do they feel luscious on my skin!

I cannot believe the wonderful difference one little year has made in so many ways.

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