WLS is so freaking' fantastic! Kinda long story...

Okay...so here is the story....

My cousin hired me to cater a party she was having last night. It was my first catering job since my surgery. So I wake up, take a shower, and I go to get dressed. Since it was chilly out, I decided to wear long jeans. Problem....I don't have any that fit. They are all too big. So I look in my closet and I remember that I bought a pair a few months back that were on sale at Avenue. All my old jeans are either 20 or 22. These were an 18 and strech so they fit. So I was like fine....welll I put them on and I kept losing them. I bent down to tie my shoes and my husband told me that my entire butt was sticking out. But I had to wear them anyway because that was all I had.

I get to my cousin's and she hadn't seen me since the week before surgery. She opens the door and flips out. I go inside...her 2 aunts who also haven't seen me since before surgery...flip out. Her mom...who is my aunt comes in....she goes crazy. They were giving me complimant after compliment. My aunts friend was even complimanting me. She hadn't seen me since April.

Okay..my point...besides my wedding...this is the happiest time of my life. I am literally on cloud nine.  Everywhere I go..people compliment me on my weight loss, tell me I look great. I feel so much better...I am happier, I have more energy......this is life changing.

Fantastic!!!  Make you feel great, doesn't it.  I have been shocking people the last month or so.  I'm an RN doing community health nursing so I see many folks on a constant basis, many of them elderly.  Last week a woman I've known almost all my life came in for a check up.  She asked me where the other nurse was.  When I told her it WAS me, she almost fell off the chair!
Then to make things more complicated (and to combat hair loss) I had my hair cut, much shorter, it was fairly long.  More double takes, everywhere. 
It is great, welcome to the club and the losers' bench, Andrea

Enjoy every wow you deserve them all big or small.Having this surgery puts us all in the catergory of the very brave( no matter what the clueless think)We have risked our lives to save ourselves & we have spent so much time trying to be invisible because of our size it's our turn to turn heads for all the right reasons.Congrats

Thank you!! I know what you mean...we make ourselves invisible for so long and thinking back.,it is so sad. Then we decide to do something like this...and you are right...to save our lives and we get negative feedback from the clueless.

This was not my easy way out......this is something I still have to work at. And you are right again....We deserve every compliment, head turn, whistle...ect.

And I am glad I have all of your along for the ride...

Yes, isn't it amazing.  I feel so good myself.  I will be 46 this week on the 25th, and I feel better than I ever did in my life.  When I put clothes on now, I have a perfect shape, and the compliments that I get are so amazing.  I want to say that what we are so courageous!!!  The clueless can stay clueless.  I pray that you continue to have a healthy and successful journey.