WOW MOMENT - Let's get it going!

OK the board has been too quiet... thanks Susan for starting up the Body Part appreciation Day post again... let's get it going with our wow moments for the week. I FINALLY got to my 100 lb loss! Just this morning... yesterday I decided to have my picture taken for my id badge... the lady behind the window called up my employee number, said, "Oh my you have lost weight! How did you do it? Weigh****chers? what?" I told her that though I had tried Weigh****chers, I had tried many diets and ended up having WLS. So, I stood against the wall... she counted to 3, I smiled showing my pearly whites, walked back to the window to see my picture, and she turned her computer monitor towards me. I was not prepared to see it! My before and after photo id badge pics... I had a "moment"... I said, "I think I'm going to cry". So she handed me a kleenex and she's pulling out her own kleenex... we're both teary eyed. It never ceases to amaze me... just when I think I'm used to this weight loss... something happens that overwhelms me all over again... I will let you all see the before/after badges at the protein party. She let me keep the old one. So what is your wow moment(s) this week?

Congrats and welcome to the Century Club!!!!! My wow moment also involved a picture. I had told you all that we got together with our kids a few weeks ago for family pictures. Well, while hubby and I waited for the kids to get to the studio, he took some shots of me. He didn't let me see any of them when he downloaded them from the camera onto his computer. Yesterday he printed one of the shots of me and put it in a frame. OMG! I couldn't stop staring at it! It is still so hard to believe the person in the photo is me. I'll post it on my profile as soon as I can get hubby to put it on my disc.

I can't wait to be WOWED by the pictures when you post them!!! I know that they are great and we will be seeing them soon!!! Shelia

WOW - Congrats Melinda on losing 100 pounds. I know how exciting that is. Enjoy the moment! Keep up the great work! I do not really have a WOW moment this week. Well, except I went to lunch yesterday with some freinds and one of them has not seen me since before my surgery. She did not recognize me when I walked up to the table. She didn't know why I was sitting at her table at first because she thought I was a stranger! . Misty

Misty That is a WOWIE OWIE moment! I would say that is great when your own friend can't recognize you! Don't you just love it???

That's a Super WOW moment!!!!!!!!!!!!!! You do look marvelous!

Well, I just had a WOW moment. Each year we have a program to recognize employees who have reached milestones in years of service. Part of my job is to order their gifts and check the engraving on them when they come in. For retirees, we allow them to choose a chair with the university seal and their name engraved in it. Well, I have to unpack those suckers. This year 2 of the chairs were Boston Rockers. The backs of these chairs are the real high ones and the rocker parts were packed at the bottom of the carton. After pulling the chair out I had to reach down to the bottom to get the rockers out of the protective cardboard they were in. I'm only 5'3" folks!! I was bent double into these 2 cartons retrieving those parts. There is no way I would have been able to do this prior to losing 124 lbs. I'm just glad I was in my storage room where no one could see me. Whew! I've had a workout!

I made my first purchase from Victoria Secret over the weekend.... though I felt very awkward in a "skinny" people store, I proudly tried on and purchased my first bra from VC ... what a great feeling and OH MY GOD, how comfortable are these bras!?! I can hardly tell I'm wearing one (sorry guys, if that is a little tmi!)

April, You Go Girl!!! That is one of the things that I would love to do one of these days myself!! So Proud of you!!! Shelia

Okay, it may be the little things in life that mean the most at times and today has been a very sentimental day to me. My son and I spent the day together, because he was off for spring break and I have finally felt better (without all the nausea). We went to the movies, He went out to eat, and we fed and pet the stingrays at Opry Mills. This was a wonderful time, however I think the time I enjoyed the most was when I was able to get on the Carousel and ride the horse with my son. I know this may not seem like much, however it truly was, because he is 10 and I have never been able to ride on the Carousel with him in his entire life. I have always had to let his grandparents or my husband take him or ride with him in the sleigh, but not today, I was able to sit on the horse, in the saddle and still have plenty of room between me and the pole, beside him. I was also able to get off the horse with out any fear of not being able to swing my legs around and being too big to get either up or off the horse. I know I was smiling so large!!!!!!!!!!! Therefore, this is my WOW moment, one that I have waited for ten years to be able to share with my son. I know that my son was proud to share it with me, but he just does not realize how much it meant to me, because for many years I have had to sit back and watch many moments in my his life be shared with others, (as I took the pictures) simply because I was too large to do them with him, this is beginning to change and I thank GOD for it, because we will now have memories that we will be able to DO together!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!