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The one thing I want more than anything is to stand in front of a full length mirror, completely naked, and just smile...I want to feel good in my own skin...I want to love myself...I want to be excited when I'm taking my clothes off...I want to feel confident when I undress for my husband...I want to smile :)

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I'm hoping I can take my kids to the pool in the summer in a normal bathing suit. Not my "cowsuit" as I call it. Just a normal one-piece.

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Mine is a goal that every woman should have...

I plan on buying the most skimpiest, sluttiest bikini I can find. Go on a cruise with no children in sight. Dock on some romantic island with beautiful beaches and make love while the waves cover our bodies.

As you can see I've thought about this a lot. LOL

I want to to this - and dance on a pole when we get back home!! I want to wake up the inner sex kitten whose asleep right now. I want my husband to think about me the way he did 70 lbs. ago. I know he still thinks Im beautiful and all of that...but I want him to know me as that vixen again.

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Hey Ladies,

I think we should plan to meet somewhere tropical and exotic during the summer of 2009 or 2010, and plan to wear our skimpiest, sluttiest bikinis, and do a 'Lap Band' parade down the beach!:tongue2:

Who's in?:)

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  1. Go jogging
  2. Run in a marathon
  3. Siwm in the pool and sit in the hot tub
  4. Travel the world

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Ahhh.... when I lose all my weight I want to....

1. Cut my hair. Being fat causes insecurity, and everyone compliments me on my hair, so it's my security blanket.

2. Not have to suck it in all the time!! Breathe!! haha

3. Go on vacations and not be restricted due to my weight! Example: In Vegas I couldn't keep up with my friends on the strip, the walking was too much and my feet and knees were killing me. In Cancun, I wouldn't go scuba diving cuz I didn't want to be seen in bathing suit... you get the idea.

4. Do & think about ANYTHING other than my weight! It has consumed my life for too long, and I cannot wait to have that monkey off my back and enjoy living!

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I'm with you on the Lane Bryant credit card...I want to go on a hiking trip in the mountains and not feel like I'm having a heart attack

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Be comfortable in bathing suit as we always end up at a beach somewhere for vacations. I also would like the mental freedom to know that I was in control of my weight(practice, practice). It will be awesome to live at a normal weight!

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  • Meet a good man and start a family
  • Do a local mountain hike known as a real challenge and not feel like i'm going to die 5 minutes in
  • run a 10K marathon
  • go shopping with friends and let them wait for me while i try on a million gorgeous clothes in non-plus sizes
  • take a hip hop dancing class
  • be comfortable in my own skin

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to see the me my husband sees.

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I keep telling my husband that I want to be beautiful again. I want to be able to walk to the end of the driveway with my 1 1/2 year old son. I want to wear a swim suit with out a cover. I want to not have to look in the back of the store for the plus size clothes.

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I would like to sit on a plane or theater without being squished. I would like to hike, swim, bowl , try new things. I want to wear a tight leather catwoman outfit for Halloween.

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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
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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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      1. summerseeker

        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.

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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