Hi Friends,

Thanks for sharing your stories....I know how you feel/felt, believe me!

* A few years ago, I couldn't get the seatbelt to fit around me on the airplane, so I covered the unbuckled belt with my lap, and flew unsafely so I wouldn't have to ring the stewardess bell and ask for an extender in front of the rest of the airline.  Since then, I request an extender as soon as I board before I sit, and am SO THANKFUL that I no longer need one.


* My kids asking me why I was a "big" mommy, and other mommies were "little".    Now they tell me how thin I am, even though I'm still obese, but thankful I'm not super obese.


* And finally, this is my most private and embarrassing incident:  Using a "skinny" restroom stall, and not being able to stay seated on the toilet seat and reach my big-ole booty.  Another thing I'm THANKFUL for...now I don't need to worry about that!

Damned straight any weight loss counts!!!  I lost 129 pounds and then couldn't lose another pound to save my life for years.  I finally lost two more pounds and I think I'm more proud of those two pounds than the other 129! 

Great job Christa,

Mary

Well, back from the doctor and all is well.  I converted back into normal rhythm on the way to the doctor's and hopefully it will be another 3 years before I have to experience that again.  He is going to do an ECHO cardiogram in a few weeks just to make sure everything is okay, but feels like I do, that this was totally related to the fluid volume loss this week and the stress this weekend.

I did eat all my points this week and ate healthy....whole grain, lean protein, fruits and veggies.  I even allowed myself a Skinny Cow each night as a treat (2 pts.).  I am very fluid retentive and think I was just all carbed up from two weeks of vacation and eating out every night and just had one gigantic WHOOSH!  Next week will be much more indicative of a true weight loss and on a much smaller scale.

Anyway....went out to lunch afterwards and had a nice salad with grilled chicken and LF balsamic vinegarette dressing!!  Gonna take it easy the rest of the day.  Thanks for all the well wishes!

 I had the not fitting in a ride experience at a carnival when I was a teenager, I was with  my boyfriend, who is now my husband. The one experience that comes to mind, and it is/was more hurtful than embarassing  was when I had my last baby, my pastors wife offered to give us a little baby shower with all the woman from our church invited, some I knew some I did not know, Olivia (my baby) was about 4 months old at the time and I weighed about 296ish and this family came in, the mom and two teenage daughters (who were very thin) and the youngest daughter who was about 4, they walked in and greeted me and the little girl looked at me like a deer in headlights and just pointed at me and said "why is she big mom?" her mom tried to over talk her and pretend like she did not here her daughter, so the little girl got louder   and said "MOM, I said why is she BIG?" the poor mom looked at me and kinda smiled and then took her little girl into the corner and bent down to talk to her, I did not here what she was saying to her but I imagine she was trying to explain to her that I was a larger person and it was not nice to point it out. The whole rest of the shower I felt like crying, I wanted to crawl into a whole. I came home and cried, I told my husband how bad I felt about myself. That was one of the instances that led me to research WLS. Which is what brought me to my whole new lifestyle of eating and exercising! so God can and does use all things for good to those that Love him.  

LOL!!!  You are fast girl!!  You were like me, was feeling good and forgot about OH.com because I see you have been listed here.   Good goals!!  Your family needs to eat healthy also and 15 min a day is a good start also!!

This is great!!