Guilty Pleasures

Thanks, gals!  I am doing well.  Have to confess my face is the biggest area of difference!

Michael is now scheduled for March 3, after a couple of delays.

Wait.... Forgive me, Mary, but I thought he had his WLS already!  What have I missed???

Unfortunately, there were some unavoidable delays, some due to health things, then the final delay was surgeon's assistant had the week off - after we had everything to go.  Oh, well. Onward we go...

I have to say in reading back a year ago in my journal how much I hated myself and never wanted to leave the house.  I felt so bad about the way I looked and my feet hurt all the time.  It's funny how you forget those really bad feelings.  I feel so good now.  With the reading on the scale steadily going down the reading on the self esteem meter was steadily going up.
Just loving the way I look and liking myself is a guilty pleasure.

I'm still kind of scared to buy new clothes in the retail stores, but once I find something that fits at the Savers I get an idea of size.   Then I go to a big box store and try on six or seven pairs of pants just to confirm that I really can wear those clothes.   Don't buy anything and just waste my time and theirs, but I enjoy it so much!   Guilty pleasure for sure!

Tuna

Well, I think my fave thing post-WLS is being able to cross my legs!  And to be able to cross them UNDER a table???  WOW, never thought that would happen!  But I also love the thighs not rubbing together.  Whenever I wore out a pair of pants, THAT'S the place they wore out first! 

There are lots of guilty pleasures I've experienced in nearly 7 years post-op.  All of the ones mentioned so far are mine too.  How about being able to wear a tight sweater TUCKED in with a belt?  How about being able to buy a belt?

Being too thin to shop at a store

Not sweating when no one else is either.  yikes, I was always hot, even when no one else was...sweat at work, sweat during a job interview...couldn't cool down in a reasonable time...

Having people in your life now that never knew you fat.

 

embracing the non-diet lifestyle.....
why guilty pleasure?  Well, I still feel guilty being able to eat the foods I do but what pleasure they bring me LOL!

I can't tell you how great it has been to watch the deluge of diet commercials (i.e. NutriSystem, Weigh****chers, Slim Genics...etc..) and know that I'll NEVER need those again!

Ok, I'll bit. I haven't been on the board for a while..... Just so blasted busy.

Post-op: shopping, crossing legs under a table, getting on the floor and play with the grandbabies & being able to get up without struggling!