Share Your Wow Moment!

WOW moments just keep coming for me.  One day it's as simple as realizing you can go to the movies and fit comfortably to people noticing you and going WOW you look great. Pun intended. Most importantly, I enjoying walking for hours now when I used to barely be able to stand for 15 minutes. 

I enjoy going through my closet and finding old clothes, that I thought I would never fit into again - and my daughter telling me everyday how proud she and how much we look like sisters.  The knees are feeling better than they have in years, not to mention my back feels better.

If you take each day as a blessing you will see more WOW moments than you actually count. Walking, medicine elimination, co-workers witnessing your day to day transformation, the meeting of old friends, eating healthier etc, etc.
God Bess,
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I went to work the other day and had my shirt tuck into my pants. One of my coworkers said look at his skinny axx I have never saw him with his pants tucked in. I went to buy some new shirts and I and could get extra large instead of the 5 and 6X I use to wear. Had a physical with my PCP he said your half the person you use to be and asked what can you do that you couldn't do before surgery the first thing that came to mind was tie my shoes, he said that's what most people say.

Steve

Going for a walk the other day down the street and saw  a man coming toward me.  I totally ignored him and kept my stride.  He stopped when I tried to pass him and said "You look familiar."  I didn't even look @ him just said " No you must be mistaken."  Insisting that he knew me he replied, "I think I know you from somewhere."  Ready to let him have it if he didn't get out my way I rolled my eyes and looked at him then realized he too looked familiar.  Then I realized he was a friend I hadn't seen in almost 2 yrs.  He kept checking me out from head to toe and smiling and saying "DAMN, You look GOOD." He said it like 6 or 7 times I felt great.  He is the first person I ran into that I hadn't seen since WLS.

my newest  wow moment came on Mon 6/15 that was by 45th birthday and I went to the gym to work out and made it thru the treadmill for 60mins. used to be at time when i could not do the cool down for 3mins. Also having my daughter and daughter in law tell me all the time how proud they are of me for taking the steps to do what i have done.
Especially having my 5 year old  grandson tell on my birthday I do not look old and tired anymore.

My WOW moment comes frequently - when I show my preOp pic & don't tell it's me.  People say "Ooooh, your mom looks so young!!"  That's WOW...6 years AGO I looked old enough to be my own mother NOW.

 I have 2 WOW moments

The first one was maybe 7 months ago I was caught in a thunder storm and my clothes were soaked.  I put my jeans in the furnace room to dry off and forgot that they were in there.  About a week later I called my youngest son who is 15yrs old 5'11" and weighs maybe 155 with bricks in his pocket and asked him how long was he going to leave those jeans in the furnace room.  He looked at me went and retrieved the jeans and said "Mom these are not my jeans".  My WOW moments was that they were mine.   OH HELL YEAH WOW!!!!

My second WOW moment was just this Fathers Day weekend.  I went out with my family and on a bench sat my 3 aunts and my NANA and they told me to come sit down.  I told them that I would stand because I did not want to squeeze in.  They looked at me like I was crazy and said sit down.  I did and I fit with room to spare.  I could not believe it I wanted to cry because most times I still see myself at 315 with a 50" waist line and not at 213lbs with a 37" waist line.  To that I say OH DOUBLE HELL YEAH WOW!!!!


With those two I am looking forward to many more in this battle that I along with many others are going thru.

GOD BLESS YOU ALL AND KEEP FIGHTING EVEN WHEN YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE LOSING THE BATTLE!!

ALL OF THEM ARE AT WORK

I was walking along the boardwalk at the beach today and was wearing a pair of capris . The capris felt like they were slipping down so I went to pull them up...When I looked down I realized that I could look thru the capri pants to the ground. I guess they are tooooo Big!  wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yep just had a wow moment....When I said it here on onothe rpost I then relaized it was a new wow moment for me.  I jsut had a baby abd have managed to loose 23lbs in 2 weeks.  For me, someone whom could not loose 1lb in a year has managed to loose 23 in 2 weeks.  I'm excited!