Share your "WOW" moment post-op with us..

I wanted to start a post directed at those who have already had surgery (post-ops) and ask that you share your most exciting moment after reaching your goal weight.. Exciting moment as in meeting someone special or turning a head or two and then it finally hitting you as you realize, "damn - I am a hottie now". Just curious what all you have experienced :-)

This summer all together has been a big blast of WOW!!!

It started with hiking 3 miles through a chasm with my Mom and daughter, then amusement parks, and the big one .....wearing a bathing suit for the first time in years! 

My 9 year old loved EVERY minute of fun we had!!! She would always tell me how she never wanted it to end. I am no longer the fat Mom sitting on the side watching...I'm the Mom RIGHT there with my kiddo!! 

 hey Kevin!  Well i'm not at goal YET but I'm so close i can taste it LOL  i think the biggest wow for me this year has been going to amusement parks for the first time in YEARS and being able to fit on EVERY ride i rode!  Even the scary ones!  LOL

Yep, I've been to 3 theme parks this year.  Cried when I got in the first ride at the first park that I've not been in in years!

I went to Six Flags in Atlanta in April... Had a bad experience in the past with someone that I liked was very embaressed, etc, etc... So I went and got in the Georgia Cyclone and sat down, and just buckled up the seat belt!  WOW! I cried, well just shed a little tear, then went and rode every single ride in the park!

Headed up to Kings Island in Cincinnati and went on every single ride there as well.

It was AWESOME to be able to just get on a ride and not worry about whether or not I will "fit".

My next goal is to go skydiving.  I have to be under 225lbs to do it... I'm well under that!
OH and I can shop at the mall now, like places like the Gap, Old Navy, etc!

Michael.

I've had a couple:
Falling in....and out of love
Wearing a size medium shirt
Wearing a size small bathing suit and gym shorts
Jogging by the beach and turning the heads of men AND women
Running 5 days a week
Being asked to do a mini triathalon next summer
Being told by my running coach she'll have me running in a 1/2 marathon in the fall of 2010!

I had a mini-WOW today.  I went to a meeting in a room that I have not been in since right after surgery.  i fit in the chair.  I spent most of the meeting marveling at the space I had around me and looking to see how much everyone else had . . . instead of paying attention.

A few months after surgery, I went to an amusement park in Kissimmee, Florida and had some concerns about fitting in the harness of one of the rides.  I asked the operator, "Can a fat guy fit on this?"  He looked at me like I had lobsters crawling out of my ears (I love A Christmas Story) and said, "You're not fat."  And I was still about 280 at that point.

Fast forward a few months after.  I was about 7 months post-op and on my way to pick up my dad from the hospital after having had heart bypass surgery.  I was kind of, well, in a mood and this asshole in a big-ass redneck truck cut me off.  So I sped around him and cut him off.  We sped down the next mile or so playing leapfrog until a red light stopped our little game.  We rolled down our windows and got into a pretty intense cursing match with each other.  Soon, the light was green and we were on our separate ways.  And I realized something.  Of all the names he called me, he never once called me a big-fatass or tub-o-lard or any of the old fatty go-tos.  That was always the first place that people went.  I knew then that I was no longer fat.

Since then, Ive just been having the time of my life.  Clubbing and cruising became quite an adventure.  I go out and, yes, I notice the people looking at me.  Well, they stared at me before...  But for much different reasons.

I've been recently asked to have some photos of me published in a magazine, which I repectfully declined because they would have too much control over my images.  But I was really flattered.  If there's one thing I've learned, it's how to take a compliment.  The coy approach is so over.  And humility is not a quality I embrace.  But I deserve it.  I spent 32 years of my life being called "big guy," "fat boy" or "tubby."  So if I want to bask in being called all the good things, let me be.  I think that I've earned it.

Every moment of my life is deserving of a "wow."  And I think that all of us here who were finally bold enough to take back control of our lives should feel the same.

Cheers,

Chris

Sitting perfectly fine in a train seat in Chicago a few months ago (those on facebook should remember that)

I was cruised by my BF because he didn't recognize me after I was gone for a week on a business trip.  (Still not sure how to take that one)

I ran 2 laps around the track last night (Hey even if it was 2 Im still proud that I could run without looking like the damn Kool-Aid man)

I can buy my underware at walmart instead of big and tall

I still need to get that "damn I'm a hottie" wow moment... although I'm digging the fact that people check me out now.

Well, I am not at goal yet but 13 months post-op, but I have a wow moment. I went to the DMV to get my driver's license renewed. They take the old license and update the info. The clerk looked at the license and then looked at me. She said, "OK, I know you are not this weight"  I gave her my true weight and she said she was amazed. And I of course had cut 30 pounds off of my true weight to put on the old license. And... for the first time in ages, the license has my real weight!

I went home last year after gall bladder surgery when I was 7 months post-op. I saw an old friend of mine I hadn't seen for 4 years. He knew he knew me from somewhere but couldn't remember. When he realized it was me his jaw dropped. All I could think of was yeah, you married Tia and you could of had me. Wouldn't change a thing with him since I had the most WONDERFUL hubby.

A big wow was the first time I flew post-op. I didn't need an extender. I am seriously hoping to hit up an amusement part sometime but I doubt that will happen since I plan on getting preggers again.