YOU KNOW WHEN YOU'VE HAD WLS WHEN YOU HEAR THIS.......
HI EVERYONE, I JUST READ THIS FUNNY POST ON THE DECEMBER 2005 PATIENT FORUM, AND WANTED TO SHARE IT WITH YOU. IT IS SOOOO TRUE!
ENJOY FROM JOANNE
* I have a date" does not mean you're going out.
* You have baby food in the house and no baby.
* "I'm a loser" is a good thing.
* All of your silverware says Gerber.
* A wooden spoon isn't just for cooking.
* "Welcome to the other side" doesn't include death.
* New clothes fall off in a week.
* You get excited about hand me downs.
* The scale at Wal-Mart no longer says "one at a time please".
* Going bald and getting wrinkles is a good thing.
* "Jus****er for me please".
* Hitting the "Century Mark" is actually a good thing.
* You can be touched by an angel and still not be considered crazy.
* When your rear end no longer looks like a mudslide.
* When you get excited that your incision was "only 4 inches".
* When the word lap has nothing to do with a strip club.
* Other women are calling you names behind your back.
* When you are glared at in the plus size department because you don't "belong there".
* When you really don't have a thing to wear.
* You have to prove you are the person on the drivers license.
* You start being in the pictures not behind the camera.
* You want to hug everyone fat and hand them your surgeon's card.
* You are never parted from a bottle of water
* When you order a doggy bag at the same time as your meal.
* Being too small for your britches.
* When the only way your nipples are where they belong is to roll them up, position them with your bra and secure with a ponytail holder.
* When you go pick up your child at school and all the other kids say WOW you're mom is hot.
* When you go to the mall and take the first available space instead of circling 20 minutes for one closer to the door.
* You truly are a "cheap date".
* When one drink makes you flipping floozy!
* When you run to the door and don't hear a flapping sound.
* You flip your shirt to show complete strangers your scar.
* Vitamins feel like a meal.
* You go from a 56DDDD to 32AAA in a year and didn't have a breast reduction.
* You've just lost 100 lbs and run into a high school friend who asks "did you change your hair?"
* You can cross your legs... both of them
* Instead of a Wonder Bra you need a Wonder Where They Went Bra
* When your obsession from food turns to your scale.
* They no longer call 911 for the Jaws of life to extricate you from a turnstile.
* No more Velcro shoes
* Tongs are no longer to fry chicken.
* "Checking for leaks" no longer includes your panties
* When your Stairmaster is no longer used for drying your fine washables
* Your mother says "You don't eat enough"
* When your doctor looks you in the eye and says "I know you will have success with this."
* Having sex your husband complains that your hip bones are poking him.
* You can wear corduroy pants without igniting a fire
* When you wave and your upper arms wave back
* You safety pin your underwear
* Someone phones and thinks your husband is sneaking around with some skinny mistress
* Cannot blame the cat for shedding
* Cancel your Lane Bryant Credit Card
* 3 Lean Cuisines a week and that's your total grocery purchase
* The kids wonder what happened to the cake and cookie god...did he die???
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*When you can even consider getting ON that scale in walmart, and in public at that!
*When you can weigh yourself at a time other than in the morning
*When you don't have brush burn marks on your inner thighs
*Your husband tells you "wow you have great legs!"
*when you can tell people what your weight is and be proud of it!
*When you carry around little plastic zip baggies in your purse/car for those unexpected upchucks
*when your heart changes and you are more sensitive to people suffering with weight loss more than ever
*when going to a party where all there is is food annoys you
*when the thought of a mcdonalds french fry or big mac makes your cringe
*when you fart like never before.......fart, fart, farty, fart
*your rings fall off your fingers, your shoes suddenly don't fit anymore, and your underware falls off unexpectidly...opps!!!!
*your family knows they will face death if they eat your sugar free cookies, or fruit pops in the freezer
*your butt gets sore from sitting on bleachers or on a long plane ride
*you have so much skin on your butt it shifts when you sit down!
*bones....bones on my chest, pelvis, ankles... where did they come from?
*you don't have to blame your weight on "big bones" anymore
*you can fit into a swing again...and enjoy it!
*you buy that little red dress you've always wanted...
What others can you add?
blessings, Tami