I really think that we need to establish a thread dedicated to our NonScale Victories. So here it is:

I had the best thing happened to me this weekend. But overall it was a week and weekend filled with NSVs and reassurances. I met 2 successful bandsters. Men are flirting, new ones and ones Ive known for years. WIERD!

I was hanging out at my Bestie's (Jenny) house. She pulled out a picture of me from about 3 years ago. I finally saw the difference. I was a mountain. I looked swollen, full, and SO MISERABLE. Whats sad is that I remember that day and I thought I looked so cute, I looked a mess.

This whole time I havent been seeing the change. I figured that I need 30 to 40 more lbs before there was a perciveable difference. I WAS SO WRONG! I am a new woman, NOW!

Later, a friend of hers stopped by. When she came to say hi to me, she looked at me weird then said, "Did you lose weight? Oh my god you lost A LOT of weight!" I told her about the band (I really couldnt help myself).

Later that night Jenny tells me that her friend said that (here's the best part) I looked like a "totally different person" than I did before. This girl is honest if she isnt anything else which makes it all the more amazing.

It was a that moment that I felt the absolute truth of it all: I do feel like a whole different person. I am a different person.

This one was long so I will write my other NSV later. Maybe Ill start a blog.

Congrats Rice guy! It's a great feeling getting to wear your old clothes you'd gotten too fat to wear. I know that feeling.

Well here's an NSV I just had. My coworkers have been talking about how skinny I'm getting. Now I know this doesn't seem like a big deal, but I just started there 2 months ago!

Drew, just I saw you B/A pics and you look great! Way to go! I love when people tell me I'm disappearing.

To celebrate my 2 year Bandiversary I have a couple of NSVs:

Last week I attended a local LB support group meeting and was completely ignored, including by the moderator who never asked me to introduce myself. I found out at the end that It wasn't until I started talking that people realized that I was banded and not someone else's support person.

The lady to whom I sold my last "fat" piece of clothing, a size 3x winter coat, asked "How did you wear this coat? You are tiny." I have NEVER been called tiny, ever. That made my day, week, and month.

This weekend I saw someone who hadn't seen me in a while. Her reaction was crazy, she just stared at me with her mouth gaping open for a full minute.

Chocolate_Snaps- It made me smile when I read your post. It is funny how I use to dread seeing people from long ago, especially high school. I always knew they would be thinking, "Wow, she let herself go!" Now I take every opportunity to see people from my past because as shallow as it seems I love the compliments. At times it is what keeps me going!

My current NSVs are:

-Shopping in the juniors dept.

-getting rid of all of my XL t-shirts and 18/20 jeans!

-Someone saying, "You don't need to lose anymore weight!" haha yes I do, but NO ONE has ever said that to me!

-Being the same size I was my SOPHOMORE year of HIGH SCHOOL!!!!

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BEK-totally agreed. but I'm still about 17 lbs from what I was my sophomore year...but hell I've already made it 90lbs lol...still waiting on the "you don't need to lose anymore weight" comment lol

Ha! and I just got my first "Where did you go?"/disappearing comment this weekend lol

I went to my great-grandma's birthday party yesterday so there was a lot of my family there, many I have not seen since before I was banded in July. Anyways, my little cousin who is 6 or 7 came in, went and hugged my brothers, looked at me occasionally, I smiled at hime, figured he is just young, and I havent been around in a while. Well, about 10-15min later he was playin around on one of those chairs with wheels on the bottom, he looks up and says to me "you look different". LOL I laughed, and thought it was the cutest thing I have ever heard and really just confirmed for me that I do look different even with only about 3 months under my belt being banded!!!! I can't wait to see what is to come!!

i put on a pair of size 14 bootcut jeans from the gap that i wore when i was a freshman in high school!!!! they button and zip and everything, but they are just a little too tight to wear out.

still, they fit! :frown:

Torrid was having a hugh sell on their clearence. I love baby phat jeans they have always fit me really well (but don't buy then to much because they are pricey) They had a pair on clearence for like 15 dollars well i couldn't pass them up. Well the only size they had was a 16 so i thought i will get them and they will fit when i loose more weight. Well they came in the mail i took a look at them and they look a little small but just out of curiosity i thought i would try them on and see how much weight i would need to loose to buttom them. Well to my suprise they buttoned just a little snug. I never relized how small i was getting. I have gone from a size 22 to a tight 16 in just 4.5 months.

Torrid was having a hugh sell on their clearence. I love baby phat jeans they have always fit me really well (but don't buy then to much because they are pricey) They had a pair on clearence for like 15 dollars well i couldn't pass them up. Well the only size they had was a 16 so i thought i will get them and they will fit when i loose more weight. Well they came in the mail i took a look at them and they look a little small but just out of curiosity i thought i would try them on and see how much weight i would need to loose to buttom them. Well to my suprise they buttoned just a little snug. I never relized how small i was getting. I have gone from a size 22 to a tight 16 in just 4.5 months.

:thumbup::biggrin: Good Job! That is awesome!

i put on a pair of size 14 bootcut jeans from the gap that i wore when i was a freshman in high school!!!! they button and zip and everything, but they are just a little too tight to wear out.

still, they fit! :biggrin:

Good job! You will be in them before you know it!

you will be in them and then out of them and moving on to a smaller size in no time

I can walk up 6 flights of stairs nonstop several times a day! 130lbs ago I would've freaked at the thought half that. Its a good thing that I can because we are reno-ing the elevator in my building and we'll have to hoof it for the next 2-3 months. My thighs and bum are gonna be sooo tight by X'mas!

I can put the arm rest down in my titan now, and it doesn't rub my sides..never used it before because of that, now i love the thing lol.

One of my most memorable NSV is... I went on my first vacation since being banded to Jamaica in June 2009. First I actually fit in just my seat and no elses on the airplane, I could buckle my seat belt (I was so happy!!!), and my hips weren't stuck underneath the arm rests. Flying in comfort...what a feeling!

Awesome NSV's everyone!

I had a great one today. My roommate was telling me about her calculus professor and when describing him she said "He looks like a fat ugly version of you actually."

I've never had anyone tell me someone looked like a fat version of me. Wow!

I had one today... I went Zip-lining. It was so much fun. They had a weight limit of 270lbs. I realized that I wouldn't have been able to do it last year. It was an awesome feeling and soooooo much fun!!!!!

Here's a pic from 55 ft up...