Anyone else notice?

I know how you feel. These people make comments like "OMG I can't believe I weighed 250 pounds. I looked so horribly fat!" And then I look at my own scale and I'm ecstatic to be getting down to the very low 300s and about to hit the 200s. This is especially noticable at the VSG forum since we have so many lightweights.

But I know it might take an extra 6 months or whatever, but eventually I'll be getting down to that lower weight too. And overall, 6 months is really nothing compared to 22 years of being fat! 

Don't feel frustrated!!! I have to lose almost 400 pounds to get to my goal weight...and as of yesterday i have lost 247 of those pounds!!!! I don't care if they have a million wow moments before me...because every one i cross is a bigger achievement for me! Jeans seatbelts...non handicapped stalls...they are all su*****redible gifts! i was running....yes...running around the living room with my boston terrier this weekend before i realized what i was doing!

I just keep doing what i'm supposed to be doing and relish the new experiences i'm having. i have to say those have become more important than the scale! i weigh only once a week...and that alone...being able to weigh in the house and not have to go to the day surgery unit to track my weight is an incredible achievement!

Hang in there...can you even believe how far we have come? somehow i think that is more important than how much further we have to go!

That is why this is the perfect forum for us.. hey the weight is not the factor.. I only started at 303lbs but for me that was a BMIof 63.. I am only 4'10".. I have lost over 70 lbs but you can;t tell too much yet.. I am at 231 and still so very big.. so it is not he weight number the scale reads but the BMI.. that is why I love the forum title BMI over 50.. not reading weight over 350 or anything like that.. But I do know what you mean.. there are so many people that I look at their before pictures and think the pictures got switched because I would love to look like that only to see an after picture that looks like a model.. I am not sure I wwould go through all this if I was just barely making the cutoff for the surgery.. I feel for anyone who wants to have the surgery but it is harder to relate to them.. that is why I jsut love it here and this feels like home..

Don't worry you will hvae WOW moments.. and I think our wow moments are more special becasue we really have to work to get there..   I am sure many of the ones you are talking about never knew anything about not fitting into a bathtub, or not fitting in a theater seat or in a seat to get your hair cut.. so yes I think our wow moments will mean so much more..


Be patient and those wow moments will really mean so much.. I will cheer really loud when you reach one.. so loud that you might actually hear me.. lol.. I am sure we all feel that way.. our time will come..