10 month photo-whoring (because I can)

Congratulations on the changing you. I love your smile in the last pic!

Thank you!  I am thrilled with how things have gone.  

Okay, look at the expression on your face in picture #1 and then pic #3.  That says it all. 

You got great results from those 178lbs gone.  What's you favorite new skinny thing to do?

Jenny,

I know!  In the first photo, I was really upset that my DS was taking soooooooo long to come through.  I had already been approved for it but I was waiting on a date.   The surgeon I used is super-popular and even though we have socialized medicine here you get to choose your surgeons.  So I ended up waiting for 11 months for the whole thing from start to finish, which is NOT that bad but it seemed like it at the time.  

I am really happy with my weight loss.  I have to look at my before photo like once a week to remind me where I came from.  This is the new normal!  

My favorite skinny activity is clothes shopping.  At a size 20 or 22 there were NO places I could shop. Israel is not big on plus size clothing I can tell you that.  Now I can go into any store and pick something out and try it on (and buy it!).  And clothes drape properly on a thinner figure.  I spend far far too much $$$ on clothes, but hey after suffering in silence for years on the clothes thing, I'll allow myself to go a little crazy :)

S

You are just too cute. 

Carla

 Thank you Carla!

 Aren't you just cute as a little bug in a rug.

Thank you!  

Oh man, you're a doll.  Dresses are adorable and look at your fancy ballerina-esque foot contortions. 

I just love dresses.... I wear one everyday now.  A guy at work (an obtuse, geeky, no-social-skills programmer) goes to me.  You are so girly now, what happened?  Clearly he is not loving it.  Ha!