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I just read a post from someone that said she was happy one of the post ops told her it was fun once you lose the weight. I realized she is right. We all spend so much time offering support to those that do need it, we forget to mention how great life has become. I am now standing up to say that my life is so much fun and has changed so much for the better. Here is a short list of the things that I can do now that have made my life so much better- I can line dance and not be out of breath I can walk down the street and hold my head up I look people in the eye and speak first I can fit in the swing at the park I can buy clothes that I like not just because they fit My kids can hug me all the way around I can cross my legs I can fit in the seats at the movies and ballgames I can paint my own toe nails Ok that is my list. Now it is some one elses turn to say why they enjoy their weight lose. I remember before I had surgery reading all of the great things I was going to be able to do and being inspired and excited by the ideas. Lets go post op's tell them how it can be.

You got most of them but how about sliding in a booth without checking it out to see if we will fit at all.Its nice just to sliiiiiiiid in. A bath,Ahhhhh I just get in and out without being out of breath trying to pick up that other woman,Oh,that was me Swinging in the park with the grandkids without worry if I was going to fit or break it so I never did. Now I do all the time. Playing ring a round the rosie and falling on the floor. Thats fun Finally not going to LANE BRYANT ever again Thank you Dr.C

Hi Debbie and all, I keep my legs crossed all the time. Still can't paint my toenails cuz I can't see 'em - but I can definitely reach them! Need new glasses. I leave extra space in the seat of my lazy-girl chair nowadays - and other chairs No longer afraid to sit on DH's lap Have become more of a a clothes-aholic Also clothes are cheaper and there's more of a selection! DH says he likes this size better - I catch him "showing me off" to his friends once in a while I feel good about myself This was one fight that I really did win Hugs to all Kitty B. RNY 12/13/04 251 / 163

I am only 6 weeks out and because of some arthritic/movement issues, I have only lost 35 pounds...BUT I lost those doing "nothing"!!! The thing I love the most is : Actually getting results for your efforts!!! Most of us have spent our whole lives failing...not any more!!! Liz Hillsboro

Your so right Deb, I think we forget how much easier our own lifes get (physically) once we start dropping weight that we fail to shout out our own accomplishments. I can now stand for longer than 5 minutes, in fact I'd stand all day long if I could do the (ever boring) work I do from that position. I can walk! Not at a real fast pace, but further and further each day, up till 4 months ago I had to use a wheelchair most of the time. I can dance if'n I want to, so far it's only been in my living room, (my kid thinks I'm nuts1) I've always spoken to people, like half a dare... like c'mon - talk to me- and have told people, THIS doesn't RUB OFF! at my very heaviest. My Mom calls me "****y" and I ask why, she says it's because I just do things, w/o thinking, like it's all effortless now. true And now she's having to face the fact that for the 1st time since I was like 11, I am actually smaller than her. She has issues, she not me with it. My Dad called me skinny! Never has he been able to use that word in conjunction with Vickie. My family now worries about how much I'm going to loose and how ever can I survive eating just that? I cross my legs, I go till I'm wore out at night, I can find a million reasons not to sit in front of the TV.. (i've never been a tv'er anyways, but now it's worse). I no longer worry about "fitting" in seats, however I still sit gingerly, like I'm testing to see if the seat will hold me. Old habits die hard. I ride a bike, I go up & down stairs, np, I go out in PUBLIC! I walk with my eyes up now, not at the ground. I flip when I buy clothes out of the reg. dept.. go****'s been so many years. But still I'm having a "pant's" issue. (no behind, no hips, but tummy). Good Gosh I can buy bra's at Victoria's Secret if I want! But I don't like them up around my neck... I tell my kid, c'mon lets go, he asks where, I say, dunno, lets just go! I run out of time in the day now, because I am more active. Discovering "new" bones always amazes me! I gotta tell family, look look what I found.. never knew I had. I look at food with an entirely different attitude, I eat to live now, not live to eat. This list could go on and on... but I'll stop here or it'll be a book I'm too long winded anyways

The pants issue is the same for me. I wear a reg med (only stretch) and xl top. I think we are built the same. I have my dads jewish side of the family lol. skinny legs and big stomach.

Cindy,I was reading your later post and want you to know that I went through the same thing. I stayed the same weight for 4 months. I gained and lost the same 3 pounds over and over again. Some one on the board posted about this same thing. I don't remember who posted back and said to shake things up and try something new with your water and protein. I did that. I talked to the nutritionist at the doctors office. She suggested I reduce my portein suppliments to once a day. She also advized me to try ground flax seed in my suppliments or on my food. I did that and increased my fluids daily. The weight loss started again. I don't lose like before. Just a pound or so a week. I still have 24 more to go. But I feel like I am again headed in the right direction. Your picture looks beautiful any way. We have blossomed!!!