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It's Tall Boot Season Again!

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By bikrchk, in Gastric Sleeve Surgery Forums

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bikrchk    1,313

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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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andromache    16

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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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OutsideMatchInside    10,166

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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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Tssiemer1    549

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Yaaaaaay

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AlanaRN    419

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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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AvaFern    3,516

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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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BairwithMe    144

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

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VSGAnn2014    12,992

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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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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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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        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.

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