So, I have surgery scheduled on December 19 (SO FREAKING HAPPY!), and the few people who know me have asked what I'm most excited for.

Aside from my lovely bag of Victoria Secret panties that I have never worn but oh so want to wear, my biggest excitement is for getting on a horse again. I used to horseback ride and compete, and I have signed up to be co-equestrian club advisor at the school I teach at in the spring. But, I haven't been on a horse in years because I'm terrified of hurting my favorite animal in the world. In fact, my friend had found a groupon for trail rides and wine picnic thing recently and talked about it as a belated birthday event for me, and I was too embarrassed to even answer her FB message.

So yes, that is the thing I am honestly most excited for.

What about you all?

Well...I have so many NSV's since my RNY!!! Being able to exercise, sitting with my Grandchildren in my recliner with room left over, shopping!!! I used to hate to go shopping now HHHMMM I think I love it too much!!! Setting a good example for my grandkids and my daughter, feeling good, less pain, kind of happy in my own skin (sometimes) Not feeling like I am the biggest person in the room (sometimes) I am working on this!! And like you I am a past Horseback rider!! I might try it again. Now if only my mind catches up with my weight loss things would be so much better. I hope it will come. CONGRATULATIONS on your upcoming WLS!!!

Beside having normal blood pressure and my PCOS under control. I look forward to fitting some cloths I brought when I weighed 100 lbs less and also doing extreme sports that I couldn't do because of my weight.

I really want to do yoga again. I am just too heavy to do it without causing pain. Oh, and to wear a belt someday. Maybe a pair of riding boots that aren't wide-calf?

You have the right to be happy but watch girl you may,have to exchange those Victoria Secrets for a smaller size???? That is on my bucket list to horseback..I ALWAYS thought I was too big to get on one???? Congrats.. My surgery was November 9th..????

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I would love to get back into hiking again. I tried kayaking a few years ago and I loved it except that I couldn't fit into the life jacket comfortably. I would like to kayak without all of my bulky fat.

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Being able to cross my legs and two cancel of my Lane Bryant card and use my Victoria's Secret and New York and Company

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My sleeve surgery was in October 2015.

It didn't take long for me to lose track of what I was most excited about after wls. No kidding.

So much was rushing at me and all of it good.

It was a slam trip to have to repeatedly clean out the closet and take clothes to Goodwill and the like.

This summer found me using borrowed or rental kayaks and enjoying hours slipping around the nearby Savannah River or Augusta Canal. Fishing or simply enjoying being out there.

I have a fairly decent mountain bike that I'm looking forward to riding this winter.

As a tall guy, but no longer a "bigger & taller" guy, lol, I'm looking at car choices for my next car....some of them are radically different than I once considered when I was Sasquatch sized.

You have the right to be happy but watch girl you may,have to exchange those Victoria Secrets for a smaller size That is on my bucket list to horseback..I ALWAYS thought I was too big to get on one Congrats.. My surgery was November 9th..

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Hah, that would not be a bad thing, exchanging those for a smaller size! You should totally horseback ride. <3 It is one of the best thing ever; it feels like flying at times. =] And congrats on your surgery! Everything is going well for you?

I really want to do yoga again. I am just too heavy to do it without causing pain. Oh, and to wear a belt someday. Maybe a pair of riding boots that aren't wide-calf?

I did yoga in the past, and I had loved it. When is your surgery?Or, when was it? Yes, I would love riding books that weren't wide-calf...in fact, any boots at all that weren't wide calf!

Being able to cross my legs and two cancel of my Lane Bryant card and use my Victoria's Secret and New York and Company

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I cannot wait to get rid of my Lane Bryant credit card...and, as much as I love Torrid, I want to get rid of that card as well!

Yes things are coming along..please read all posts..good bad and ugly..they really helped me prepare for these days and not being discorauged????

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On thing I already did was get a new "skinny person" car. I was going to wait till spring but my 2001 PT cruiser committed suicide.

I got a Mini Cppper, and not one of those larger ones made for the American market. I'm 64 and this might be the last car I ever buy..ot tso I got the "fancy pants" options package. Chrome, leather, leather, heated seats, satellite radio....

I couldn't fit in the seat with the arm rest down until 2 weeks after my surgery. I am still trapped in the hospital with this facial palsy and lymes disease thing but I think I will probably be able to raise the seat when I get out (it's a low as it can go right now) because I am definitely losing butt fat!

This!

This 3xl isn't cutting it anymore.

Non-elastic waist pants. I almost want to have a ceremonial "burning of the fat pants" but perhaps someone out there shopping at Goodwill really needs some elastic-waist work pants! There's a pair hanging on the back of my closet door right now. I had bought them from the Gap several years ago. I can't wait until they're in my rotation again.

Finding a new 2XL coat in the closet this morning. It's been in there forever. Cut the tags off and am wearing for the road trip today.

oh...and getting a swimsuit from Victoria's Secret and not Lane Bryant.