Almost "normal"...

I was just checking my BMI....its 25.8...and I only have about 5 more pounds to lose before I am a "normal" weight. Could even be a little less since I havent weighed myself in 3 or 4 days. Such a crazy thought...I dont remember a time where I was ever a normal weight, in fact I dont think I ever was...even as a child.......My mother swears I just never lost my baby fat.

I was at the doctor the other day and an aquanitance (or however you spell it) I knew from school came in...I havent seen her in about 6 years now. I went over and sat infront of her and asked her if she knew who I was....she seriously had no idea!! I told her and all she could say was "HOLY S*&T!!" HAHA It was so great! Even my doctor made a comment when she came in. She was like "If I didnt know it was you sitting here, I wouldnt recognize you at all!"

I LOVE MY RNY!! Its so nice to be able to go shopping and not worry if they carry clothes that are big enough and to go for shirts and try the clothes on and actually find that theyre too big and I need a SMALLER size for once!!!!!!!

WLS is the greatest gift an overweight person with problems losing could ever get!!!

Oh, Jackie, I so agree with you dear! I cannot ever remember being a normal weight. I was the kid who in grade school was nicknamed fatty and learned the song fatty, fatty 2 x 4, can't get through the bathroom door... yada, yada. I would cry myself to sleep most every school night. And I couldn't talk to my  mother about it because she was overweight and I didn't want to hurt her feelings. It's a lonely agonizing road that we've walked.

And now, like you, I'm just a few pounds from "normal". And my only tears now are from joy for all the reasons you stated above. I love when friends that I haven't seen for a while, even a few months, dont' recognize me. I love trying on clothes and not in a rage in the dressing room because it looks like crap, even if it is big enough to fit.

I try to remember these things when the foods call my name and I resent not getting to have what others have. But then I look around and catch my reflection in the mirror and remember that this is my gift to myself, to my body and my healing for all those childhood (and adult) tears from the pain of obesity.

Thank you for reminding me of it this morning.

You are most welcome!! I was/am a tomboy through and through. Well now I just dress that way I dont really act it. Anyway, growing up my name was Fat Jack because I was fat and a tomboy so they just called me Jack instead of Jackie. 

Never again.......

Congrats!!! I am so close to overweight I can taste it. I can't even imagine how excited you are to be so close to normal.

I was excited for being just overweight too, how sad is that huh? HEHE I hate the word morbid and to say to myself 100 times a day youre morbidly obese was horrible!
You will get there soon enough!! Good luck!

Thanks!

I don't ever remember being a "normal" weight either. I was 100 pounds at 10 years old...and it just got worse from there. The first time I was told that I was morbidly obese..I seriously had an emotional breakdown. It was horrible...

Jackie, you are absolutely stunning....Fat Jack is now..Beautiful Jackie forever. Congrats hon..