Share your wow moment after PS

I just got home from the mall. I had been looking for the perfect dress. The one that would make me go wow when I put it on. I have looked several times now at different malls and today I found it. 

Wow.

it was so much fun. It was a small shop called Hot Mama. OMG, the name is a turn off and I almost did not go inside, until I saw the nice clothes they offered - not what I had expected from the name of the store. Anyway, they kept bringing me things to the dressing room to try on. Only the S and M fit , and that added to my good time.

lots of the dresses and skirts looked nice... But then I found THE dress I had been looking for. It is a form fitted maxi tank dress with horizontal black, blue, and white stripes. It is snug around my new flat tummy and I so love that I can now wear this type of fashion.

Even the women in the store were admiring how good it looks on me. I am super happy. 

 

Here is the dress... It looks better on me than it does on the model, LOL, if I do say so myself!

http://www.shopmama.com/products2.cfm/ID/23135/c/dresses

Congrats:)  That dress is adorable, and I can't wait until I can wear something sleeveless.  I'm so jealous:)

Awww. thanks 

My arms are not that bad... thinking about having them done...

I bought a dress February 2012 for my brothers rehearsal dinner that I liked in the fitting room but hated the way I looked in it when I got home. It's form fitting and my skin looked awful under it. It is so me and pretty that I couldn't return it, black with a different shaped neckline, and studded along the shoulders. 2 weeks post TT I wore it for my sisters bachelorette party and got so many compliments. I don't think I got a full length picture though!

This pic is in your photos, right? I think you look really cute in it!!!

No that's from my brothers wedding. I haven't posted any from my sisters bachelorette. Thanks though!

I just had to share a meaningful wow moment from last night... I am back in NJ for my 3-mos post op with my surgeon for my TT. So I turned it into a vacation - I am jonesing for the shore and wouldn't you know it is freaking raining all week, except the day I have my appointment with my surgeon! Anyway, I got together with my home girls last night. We have been friends since we were 15 yo, and they have seen me through thick and thin (literally).

i had told them about my tummy tuck and this was the first time they have seen me since the surgery. Now, let me tell you that my friends are all attractive. When we met around 14/15 yo, I was overweight. Then I got really thin and I was like the ugly duckling turning into the swan - I know you know that feeling. So for years all of us were attractive. Then I got overweight then obese as the years went on. I became very unattractive. 

Then 10 years ago I had gastric bypass and became attractive again. At least with my clothes on, haha (I am serious, you know what I am talking about). I was ashamed of myself and so I never told them about my surgery.

So last night at dinner, I was wearing this great maxi skirt that hugged my body, and an equally tight tee. My girls were all tickled pink over how good I looked. They were saying how flat my stomach is and then grabbing their own belly rolls to show me they needed a tuck (they did not have big rolls like me, only from child bearing). 

My one friend starts touching my ass saying how flat it is, which is hilarious because I did not have anything done back there. Then she asks me if I had a boob job (not yet). They made me feel so special, it was really very sweet.

I finally told them that I had gastric bypass in 2003. And you know what? They were like why didn't you tell us. I told them how embarrassed I was that I had something wrong with me that caused me to eat myself into morbid obesity that I needed surgery to correct it. They said it was no big deal, and that we the end of the conversation, we moved onto the next topic. 

I felt very loved and overjoyed. It is great to have people in your life that love you for who you are.

Have any of you kept your surgery a secret? 

 

I lost a good friend over my weight loss, we were heavy together for years, I got sick, had surgery and lost weight.  She was thrilled for me, I had plastics and everything was fine until she started gaining more weight, she stopped wanting to see me in person.  She gained over 100lbs and I went to see her, she was mortified, it mortified me she was so upset to see me.  We stayed in touch online, but it was weird and strained.  We were friends since grade school.  We don't stay in contact anymore.  I feel bad about it, but feel worse about trying to stay friends when I know she really doesn't want too.

That is very sad. It is too bad that she does not try wls if she is unhappy with her weight.