Weird Non Scale Victory!

My heart rate went up reading your story-I remember that feeling so well.  What a sweet victory for you!

I am so happy that eating out is no longer a fear provoking experience for you.  You are doing so well!  Just think how far you have come in such a short period of time.  Keep using that tool, baby!

Hooray for you, Amy!!! I think many of us can relate to your post. I'm so thrilled for you. Go Amy, Go!!!! : )

I can so relate. If I sat in a booth I would try to set on the end so I wouldn't have to scoot my fat ass all the way over and have everybody watch me struggle to get across. Then I had to worry if I was going to fit behind the booth. Then I would have to worry about everyone watching me get in and out of the booth as I went for seconds and thirds and maybe even the 4th serving at the all you can eat buffet. Those all you can eat buffets used to make me happier than Rosy Odonnell at a Little Debbies snack cake convention. Sorry, I think I got carried away. It all brought back old memories. Love ya girl, Rita

BEEN THERE!! I CAN ACTUALLY FIT IN TO A BOOTH NOW BUT I STILL HAVE TO SCOOT MY BUTT OVER AND OVER AND GROAN TO GET OUT. BUT MAYBE SOON I CAN GET IN AND OUT WITHOUT A PROBLEM.I REMEMBER WORRYING ABOUT WHERE WE WERE GONIG TO BE SEATED AND I ALWAYS FELT LIKE PEOPLE WERE WATCHING ME TO SEE WHAT THE FAT LADY WAS GOING TO EAT. I ALSO FELT SELF CONSCIOUS ABOUT WALKING UP TO A BUFFET BECAUSE I WONDERED WHAT PEOPLE WERE THINKING ABOUT HOW MUCH FOOD WAS ON MY PLATE.

Wow---I have felt exactly the same.  I would always ask for a table because I knew I couldn't fit into a booth.  Now we ask for a booth which my DH really prefers and I like them too because they're usually more comfortable than a chair.  I was always afraid of falling because I couldn't get up by myself---it would probably have taken two or three men to pull me up.

I've got to go to PF Chang's soon---I've never been there and you make it sound so good!

Thanks for the encouragement, I am still there, feeling positively mortified when going to a restaurant.  I have made several trips to OKC for preop doctor visits and testing.  I go alone and it is humiliating to go to a restaurant alone and morbidly obese.  I feel like everyone is saying "That poor woman, she doesn't even have any friends or family to eat with because she is so fat!"  Yikes!  I always take a book so I don't have to look around at other people and so I won't eat fast just to get out of there.  So, to see your NSV at a restaurant is AWESOME!!

Bless your heart, yep being alone makes it worse!  I know exactly what you mean.  Oh and today I went to the movies and didn't feel like I had to sit on the edge of the seat the whole time.  I had plenty of room to sit all the way back in the chair comfortably!