1st WOW Moment!

MJ L.
on 2/4/08 8:37 am - MN

Good Evening All,

It has taken awhile for me to share my 1st Wow moment!

Today it feels that it is the right time and very much needed as a Big reminder to myself ... why I had this life changing surgery.

It was karoake night... Yes... a true Wow moment... 6 of us were standing with are arms around each other in front as Sabrinna sang.

Ever time she sang the word BEAUTIFUL .. Sabrinna pointed to each of us and looked each one in the eye.

It was Wow for me because for the FIRST time in my life I believed I was beautiful... not Model stuff.. but she saw me and I was beautiful...and felt beautiful.

I have not shared this till tonight because I wanted to cherish and treasure that moment just for myself (selfish).

Thank you Sabrinna and the arms that we all held each other together with was fulled with BEAUTY!

Now you all know that you are BEAUTIFUL,

MJ

Lori Pool
on 2/4/08 8:54 am - Chanhassen, MN

RNY on 02/22/07

MJ- I'm so proud of you. You are really coming out of your shell and blossoming into a beautiful butterfly. You ARE beautiful!!! Hugs, Lori

Sabrinna IsFree
on 2/4/08 9:04 am - Hopkins, MN

RNY on 04/20/07

I am also very proud of you for posting this...I know it wasn't easy. That was a cool moment...you could kind of feel that bond that only those of us who have been on or are starting this journey could get, ya know? When we don't quite see what we want to see on the outside. When we think our arms our too flabby or our hips are still too big, we have to dig deeper and search for those things that have really made us beautiful...the things that really matter. Thanks for sharing.

Surgeon's goal met, now on to the personal goal...

barbk
on 2/4/08 9:22 am - Eagan, MN

RNY on 10/08/07

WOW is right -- but you've always been beautiful to me!!!

XXOO

Fitness is not about age or a size -- it's really about an attitude and life style!!!
Life is not measured by the number of breathes we take, but by the moments that take our breathe away~~

(deactivated member)
on 2/4/08 9:56 am - MN

What an incredibly endearing moment! YOU ARE BEAUTIFUL MJ! In so many ways to so many of us. I look at you and see this incredibly gorgeous butterfly emerging from a cocoon that has been wrapped tight for many, many years. Those years might have been hard and difficult to live, but its the exact same with the butterfly. If a person just took the silk wrap off the butterfly they wouldn't be strong enough to fly after they emerged. Those difficult times were meant to be so you would gain all the strength you need to fly. MJ, I know you are still emerging from that cocoon, but girl in my mind you are already flying! I'm so proud of what you have accomplished in such a short period of time. You are an amazing woman with so much to offer to others and yet you are so grateful for what they give to you. I'm not sure I'll ever meet anyone as amazing and as beautiful as YOU! I love you!!!

Sabrinna IsFree
on 2/4/08 8:33 pm - Hopkins, MN

RNY on 04/20/07

Tracy-I love your new quote!! The more I listen to that CD the more I love it!!

Surgeon's goal met, now on to the personal goal...

NicoleLynn
on 2/4/08 11:23 am - Minneapolis, MN

RNY on 12/04/07

Wow, what an amazing moment that must have been. I think that sometimes itis good to keep special moments like that to yourself for a while. I am sad that I missed the karoke night, but my dear little nephews needed their auntie and so I was down in Iowa with them. I am so glad that you are able to the feel the beauty that you exude you deserve every moment of beauty and then some. I wish you many, many more wonderful moments like this one!

"When you see only one set of footprints, it was then that I carried you."

tuckang
on 2/4/08 11:45 am - Shakopee, MN

RNY on 12/14/07

I love your WOW moment. It was a great night and Sabrina singing that song is so true. We are all so beautiful. You Mary are an amazing person and are truly beautiful inside and out. Love ya!

God Bless, Angela

"You can't love if you don't love yourself"

Darla S.
on 2/4/08 12:24 pm, edited 2/4/08 12:25 pm - Maple Grove, MN

RNY on 04/27/07

Okay, MJ... Sabrinna.... now I'm crying again! Somehow I managed to squeeze the tears in that night, but it was TRULY a WOW moment - to have us OH friends there, to hear Sabrinna sing that song, to KNOW how much it meant to all of us.... it really was a moving, special moment. I don't think there are many of them outside of movie theaters, but that one was VERY REAL! And MJ, if only you could see the beautiful person the rest of us see in you! I do hope you learn to - I've never known anyone MORE thankful, MORE grateful, MORE positive and optimisitic! Do you see that in you? And do you know how powerful your love is as it rubs off on every one of us you hug? I feel SO BLESSED to call you friend... And besides all that, you looked INCREDIBLE that night! The hair, the make-up? woof...