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Love the falling down shorts story!! Thanks for sharing, made me chuckle.

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This thread is so inspiring, i have surgery on 06/01/09 and i can't wait to hav an NSV moment! Thanks

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I think this qualifies. We've been massively ignoring the weed eating when mowing hte lawn I cna push the mower all over the yard and that's been getting easier but today while my otherhalf was mowing the yard I grabbed the weedeater and got it started, hasn't been used this year and maybe last year. Anyway I was able to do our entire fence and all around the house last time I pickedup the thing i could barley hold it for more than a few minutes.

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That counts for sure JT! Speaking of weeding I'm still sore and feel like I did 2,000 squats after picking all the weeds out of my garden. But like you I wasn't able to do near this much last year. It's progress!

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First NSV this weekend...FINALLY (35 pounds and no one had noticed!). My next door neighbor whom I haven't seen this winter noticed as we were out working in the yard (called me skinny...not!). Details if you want them from my blog HERE.

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I am down from a 16 Levis to a 14 and I dont even have to do the crazy-jeans-dance to get them on!I have a lot of sizes to go through before I will have to leave my own closet to shop!!

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I have a few, but I'll just share this one. I put my bras on the first prongs instead of the last ones! AND... I no longer have side boobage trying to pop out of the bras. Soon I'll have to get smaller bras.

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I've been kind of disappointed at my results he las few weeks one week no weight lost the next 1 pound then none then 1.....I'm not blaming the band it's all on me. I've been eating less than I used to but probably more than I should but my meals just are sticking with me then in the evening I've munched a little bit making my funk worse.

Well this week I got 3 compliments on my weight loss 2 were from people in my building on another floor that had been on vacation. But today was someone that I worked for many years ago arond 1997 we occcasionally saw each other over the years and both come to Louisville 3 years ago when our comany was bought. She and I hadn't workedin the same building since we moved down here. A couple months ago my group started rotating a person every Thursday to the building she works at beasue we support people over there.

Sorry about all the background here is the point. I saw her just a few weeks ago but today when I went to her desk to visit a bit we were chatting along she suddenly stopped loked at my stomach and face got a look on her face and commented "Your losing weight!!!!"

So I guess I should take those as reminders that I'm doing fine it's a process and next year when I go see my EX in LA I will look diferent...lol

Oh also had issues with a user and one of my apps today and I resisted twice stopping at Wendy's fr a Frosty (junior of course)

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My old scale lied and maked me discouraged. We just didn't get along and so I put him in a yard sale and was happy with the dollar I got for him. I'm sure he is spitting out more lies to his new owner ... but as least he isn't pissing me off anymore! :)

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i just took my belt and put in another hole w/a knife in the kitchen. it was pretty funny but my belt was too big so i went ahead and measured the space between holes and added another the right spacing away, i can now fasten it and the leftover is long enough to tuck under the belt loop ON THE OTHER SIDE!

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Last week while doing laundry, I re-discovered some clothes in the back of my closet that haven't (or never did) fit for a long time. So, I took them out to see how close they were to fitting now.

One of them was a beautiful 2-piece suit that I bought on sale in August 2007. I didn't try it on in the store, because it was "my size" - 22W...lol. Well, I got it home and it didn't fit. I never tried it again, cuz I knew it wouldn't fit...I had gained weight over the next year and a half and moved onto 24W.

Well, last week the 22W fit me and I wore it to work the next day. I had a ton of compliments, and my boss told me that I'd better get a little bit of use from it, as she thought it looked a little bit too big for me now. :biggrin: So, I guess I am officially comfortable in 22's now. On to the 20's!!!

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excellent !

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I bought new bras today. I had the salesgirl measure me and I was a 44DD! Yay. So much better then the 46DDD that I used to squish my boobs into because it was the biggest size I could find. If I go down 4 more inches on the band I'll be able to shop at Victoria's Secret.

I also comfortably wore a pair of jeans today that I haven't been able to wear since I started vet school. I couldn't even pull them up a few months ago. They're 24s, down from the 28s I was wearing. Although I did get some other pants in 24s a few weeks ago so that's not so much of a surprise. Next stop--22s.

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Congrats to you, I had my son bring me a couple baskets of clothes I sent to the basement a few years back and found that I could wear most of them now! That is such a good feeling!

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NSV to report, yay!! I went to exchange dress pants that I bought months ago they were way too big when I tried them on this weekend. I was already excited about them being so baggy. Imagine how THRILLED I was when I found that I needed two sizes smaller!! I was so happy.

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