I fit into my "goal" dress!!!!

Ok, so according to the scale I am not quite ot my goal weight, but before I had surgery someone else who was SMO suggested that I set some kind of non-numeric goal (not a weight or clothing size) so my goal was to get into the dress that I wore for a professional photo in late 1989 or 1990... when I was about my lowest adult weight (beyond High School).  (Yes, I still have clothes from 1990... that's the advantage of buying quality, classically-styled clothing!)

I tried the dress on today (trying to see what I ahve that I can take on our trip to Florida in a couple of weeks) and IT FITS!!!  In fact, with my tummy tuck, it is actually a little loose through the waist (but it has a belt, so that's ok)!  I was SO excited!!!!  IT made me feel better about not reaching my weight goal by 18 months post-op.

Lora

That is too cool!  I wish I had some of my hold outfits!  I might have to find a new one at Goodwill to use.

Lora

That is awesome, congrats!  I don't have any of my old clothes, I wish I had some pre-vanity sizing clothes from when I weighed 147 when I was 20.......but such is life.....I could actually compare, because I swear they have vanitied us two sizes down, or maybe it's also in part because at 165 now I am not as firm as I was at 165 (skin vs. muscle) when I was younger?

You are doing great, and obviously super close to goal.  PS is not in my future, so I am trying to come to terms with what I look like, and it's hard!

I know what you mean about coming to terms with your body... even though I have had some PS, I will not be doing anything to my breasts or thighs (even though my thighs are hideous)... and it IS hard coming to terms with the lingering ravages of obesity.

My goal dress no longer has the size visible on it, but I have a pair of wool dress pants from 1990 that are a size 12 and despite my tummy tuck they don't fit in the waist, but a pair of casual pants that are 16s from that ame period of time DO fit, so the vanity sizing is at least one size if not two.  I do know that my body has my weight distributed differently (more in my thighs and boobs) than when I was this size in my mid 20's... but, hey, after 40 I guess some of it is to be expected even without the weight loss.

Lora

Lora

I know, I am 36 and I have had two children, the second via c-section so I will never have my "old" body back even without the "ravages of obesity (I love that wording, it states it perfectly!).  I have to get used to being a grown woman with kids and wrinkly skin and be happy about where I am.  I think it's hard because I know people will look at me and say "oh she must have had weight loss surgery" and I am struggling with the world knowing that.

Since I thought I would lose more slowly than I have, I did not prepare for this!

Congrats lady!! You are doing awesome!