What are you Thankful for?

OMG look at those ladies and tiny arms!  You look great!

I am grateful for not having diabetes, lower blood pressure, fitting into a size 14 (!!!!!!!!), not having cravings for Dairy Queen every time I pass one, and potatoes making me ill.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, especially at OH.

Energy!

Longer life (my liver was already starting to show signs of issue)

Fitting into tiny clothes (still having issue processing this)

Self confidence

Feet not sore after walking miles and miles

walking up a flight of stairs without being out of breath or heaving

I think I'm most thankful for connecting with this forum for ongoing support. I remember when my second son was born I was overwhelmed at balancing motherhood and working. I joined an online community of working mothers and made wonderful friendships. Their advice and support has helped me raise two awesome kids. It was actually one of them *****ferred me to this site. And I've experienced the same here- support you can only get from life experience- very thankful for that.

of course I'm thankful for my family. I'm thankful my job is a zillion times better than it was last year thanks to a new boss. 

RNY related--I'm thankful for uncomplicated recovery. I'm thankful I no longer need to check the high blood pressure box on health forms. I'm thankful for my decision each time I go on a run because I would have never known my love for running otherwise. 

Im thankful I can shop with ease for whatever I want- most importantly shoes. I've never owned so many!! 

Im thankful I no longer  panic when someone wants to take the steps-- for fear they would hear how I would huff and puff. 

Lastly I'm thankful for decent genetics-- my extra skin is live able-- and I'm ok with how everything is settling. 

You all have great lists, which I look forward to experiencing myself, but in this moment (after RNY on Monday) my answer is farting. I have never before understood just how glorious farting could be. Every time it happens I am very thankful.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you in the US. Enjoy your day in whatever way makes you happy and be thankful. 

I  am thankful that I had the courage to have this surgery even when I was ready to run the other way.

That I am getting healthier everyday and continue to make great choices

I can now shop for clothes in local stores and do not have to order all of them online.

That my family and friends have been so supportive of this journey I have been on.

I am thankful for all of you!!! I do not post much but I read so much and am invested in so many of your lives I appreciate all the veterans who have shared there knowledge and experience and newbies who have like me just started this long road and share questions and concerns.  Some days you guys help me more than I can ever say.

But most of all I am thankful for the loving support of my husband, daughter, father, brother, sister-in-law, and two nieces, I do this so I can be around for them I want to be around for a long long time and the road I was that was not going to happen...

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!!!

I'm thankful for my husband who has helped me at every step in this journey and who continues to support me when I have doubts or worries.

I'm thankful that my parents are still with us and are well cared for and safe.

I'm thankful that my children grew into very good young men.

I'm very grateful that I feel so much better than I did just a year ago (well, I only got out of the hospital just a week or so before, so I really didn't feel up to much).

Grateful that there is such a thing as WLS and my insurance paid for it.

Grateful I was able to leave an extremely stressful job in early retirement and even though I'm seriously broke, I still have a roof over my head and have been able to start giving back to the community with volunteerism efforts.

Grateful I can pursue my first love of art and have some hope of making a career of some sort from it.

Grateful to be in smaller clothing, able to stand for more than 20 minutes, freedom from a heart that would race like crazy at odd moments, freedom from pain in my knees and feet, ability to sit anywhere and on virtually anything, ability to kneel down (although the getting down and up is still pretty comical).

And overall, grateful for the opportunity to live another year.

I'm thankful for all the health WLS has brought me (also for the clothes - I LOVE clothes).  I am HUGELY thankful to my OH friends for the support and knowledge that have made me successful so far and hopefully in the future as well.  Happy Thanksgiving from me and a couple of the 18 turkeys who sleep in the trees behind my house:

Thank you for starting this thread, Elizabeth.  I love reading everyone's list.  He are just a few of the blessings that RNY brought me:

1.  Freedom from high blood pressure, sleep apnea and pre-diabetes.
2. airline seats that fit, and not panicking when the only available seat is a middle one
3. better odds that my breast cancer will not reoccur.
4. the ability to live an active life
5. not always looking around to see if I am the fattest person in the room 
6. not thinking twice about running up the stairs instead of taking an elevator
7. dropping food off my fork and it falling on the napkin on my lap instead of my boobs
8. wearing the one size fits all robe in hotels
9. being able to shop for clothes in any store, and enjoying shopping for a sexy holiday party dress. 
10. Not having my Dad worry about me because of my weight
11. swimming in a hotel pool or the ocean without embarrassment 
12. the ability to walk and walk and walk...
13. no more knee or joint pain

i could go on forever. I am also thankful for all of you. You are the wind beneath my wings.