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I discovered my ribs this week! If I lift up my saggy boobs there really is a visible rib cage under there! Woo Hoo!

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Congratulations 🎊🎈🍾

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That's wonderful! I can't wait to be able to see and feel mine.

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When it happens I will "virtually" drop by, I'll admire yours if you will admire my turtle neck in exchange, after years of being 18 inches around, it is 15 and a quarter, my 18 inch choker necklaces choke,no more! Funny where this weight loss shows up, I have slender forearms, and my wrists,oh I always told people,I was Large Framed, well there I am only a medium after all, looks like my late Aunt Grace's, and SHE was never bigger than a Misses 14 in her life! OMG do you think I might end up there before I go into maintainance? Makes me short of breath to consider IT!

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Congratulations. I just chuckled becaus last night I found my hip bones, albeit laying on my side. But before even while lying on my side I couldn't find them because of all my fat rolls. I'm down 60lbs and have another 120lbs to go. I can't wait until I can see/feel my ribs.

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It seems like the fat melts from the top down. My poor old 63 year old face looks about 80 to me - so many wrinkles and a turkey skin neck. I have always had genetically heavy upper eye lids, but now they are falling into my eyes. (If I have plastics, the upper eyelids will be the first thing to get done.) Going south with anatomy, the boobs are half their size and twice as long. Arms are getting pretty baggy. Belly and inner thighs pretty wobbly. BUT...….. the ribs look great! I've gone from a 24 pants to a 16. 2X top to a med-lg. Bra from 42DD to 38C. Underwear from 13 to 8. Most of my weight is still in the lower half. So funny how it is so different for everyone, but my aging skin is not so funny. No more collagen, I guess, and the elasticity is just not there anymore. But all these wrinkles are just my badges from the best decision I have every made for myself. It's just a matter of perspective. I'd rather look older and wrinkly and have my life back, than be obese with smooth skin and hardly able to move.

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From my sayings app;
BEFORE ANYTHING TRULY GREAT HAPPENS
EVERYTHING FALLS APART!
Hi there from another Boomer(73) in Central Ohio. I have gone from 28-30W at 5ft8in to a 20, and teetering on the brink of 18.HW365+, Currently at 224, losing 2-3 lb each week, bariatric clinic is forecasting I will achieve Onderland at or slightly past my one year anniversary on September 5th. Boobs a tragedy like yours , gone from 48 DD to 42C, my goal is to be 175 and a 15 junior, why do I specify that? Because for a BIG Girl I am not overtly busty, I am a Fat Athletic build, my ortho who is also a Sports med specialist says "Impossible" I told him You are looking at one now. Had 2 knee replacements, partly due to fact I caught softball and baseball, because that was the only way my neighborhood could field a team, played center or power forward in basketball, none of my boy cousins would challenge me to horse after age 12,,i was good and I left them in the dust but I was chosen among the first when choosing sides cause nobody wanted me on the other side. I was merciless on court! Now I am an arthritic has-been who shrunk 4 height inches after menopause, I was 6 feet if I didn't flatten down my hair. And I am ambidextrous, so I switch-hit in one kind of ball, and was deadly in layups and,free throws. We were somewhere and one of my kids was playing around with a b-ball, I said give me that basketball, shot from centercourt , sunk it , no rim needed, Whaaat said my offspring, how can you do THAT? Mama had a life before you guys came along, and I still have secrets.
I have bat wings and also flying squirrel thighs, maybe they go together? A scrawny turtle neck, I wonder who I will look like when this is all over, I certainly barely resemble myself anymore. Recently I have gone from Looking like my,Mama, her older sister Aunt Grace and today I look like their mother,Grandma Cora. And this is a shock, she never was above 5ft4in even on tippy toes. I just pray I still look passable and don't frighten people in the street too badly.
My bit of glory, my rump is going away, I used to be a Baby who had Back, now I have gently rounded butt cheeks. Harder keeping my pants up, they have nothing to hang from anymore!
And the stretch marks, low flesh and different ways my body is, those are our battle ribbons, we took our place in a deadly war and We Won!

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I like the battle ribbons! You bet - we've earned them!

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My boobs already have a nice droop and i'm PRE-op lol.

Congrats to you! :-D

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Yuuup!!! I just hope I won’t be tucking my boobs into my waistband when this is all over...going to have to make sure the fan isn’t on when the bra comes off or someone might get a black eye! Lol Congratulations though to all of us for our victories!!! 💕

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At least it will be so much easier to get a decent mammogram!

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True!

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Ribs, collarbone,even a few hipbones showing. My wrists and forearms, really look like thin people bones. And when you lose your Rump Fat, you feel like the back. of your pelvis is going to pop through, so the same seats you needed help getting out of, now they are so hard to sit very long,dang things make you hurt! And I think now the swelling in my ankles has largely gone, so I can see those bones too.

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Ooh mammograms, you youngins are lucky these days. The old machines were beasts. There they cram a sensative portion of your body into their vise, and then they started cranking . And then you start crying from the pain, when you go from sheer pain and start in cursing and threatening to kill their entire family they would back up one degree. And many times I would hurt from it for days and even had bruising a couple times. The technicians these days are polite and gentle, I always think the pink bandaids they put over your nipples are rather cute. Last 2 years I have had mine in October which I guess is Mammogram/ Breast Cancer Month. Well both years my local hospital has given me a little gift along with my peace of mind. One year it was a large scratch pad, pen and refridg magnet, last year I got a cute mid-sized tote bag, not that fakey easily torn papery type but real cloth that would hold up. Still have it, still use it, when I pick it up I say a little prayer for all my sister's who weren't as lucky as me!

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YAAY!! So happy for you... this supposed BIG BONED Sicilian girl now has dainty shoulder blades... I still feel like I’m being braggadocio, but , I’m proud of the 64 lbs. lost and I’m proud of all of you... woo hoo to your ribs and someone else’s hip bones... WOO HOO

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