What have you always wanted to do when you are "skinny"?

So, you've had the surgery, you've lost all that weight (or getting close), feel better, can move better...

What have you always wanted to do that you could not due to being overweight?

I will start...  I want to go skydiving!

My current goal is to go skydiving by the end of summer.

I know, crazy huh?  But it's something that I've always wanted to do, now that I'm below the max weight that they will allow (225lbs) I can go at any time.

Just need to come up with the funds (any donations??)

Michael.

I don't know if this is something that I've always wanted to do, but I certainly want to do it now. Last summer my husband and I went to Jamaica on vacation for a week. One of the excursions offered by the hotel was a zip line tour through the jungle. We signed up and I was so excited because I love the rush of that sort of activity.  When we got there, the guides were fitting everyone in their harnasses. I kept stepping forward to be next and the guides kept asking me to wait. I didn't really understand why until it finally did come to be my turn.

The guide pulled me aside and told me they didn't think their largest harnass would fit over my hips. I was in shock because as I looked around at the rest of the group, I was sure there were women there larger than I was. The sad truth was that everyone else fit in the harnass and even though I TRIED my hardest to squeeze into it (with about 30 people watching, uggg) it wasn;t going to happen.

My husband went on the tour (at my insistence) with everyone else and the guides drove me back down to the bottom of the zip line to wait. I was humiliated and sad and it was then and there I made my decision to have WLS.

So now that I know I will never ever have a problem fitting into that harnass, I want to go back to Jamaica and take that very same zip line tour.

Stacey

OMGoodness....I just cringed when I read your post!!! I am so sorry that happened.  I bet it really was a terrible feeling....BUT.....just when I thought I was alone in my goal of zip lining!!!!  I want to do the same thing.  I saw a Travel Channel show on Zip Lining in Costa Rica & I made the decision that I was going to do that when I was at goal!!!  So, maybe we can zip past each other & yell things like, "Hey skinny!" and "Be careful, you are so skinny you are going to slip right out of the harness!!"......

xo, Micheala.

 

I wanted to have a boyfriend.  As soon as I lost my weight, I found one! LOL.  

I wanted to wear a bikini.  I did!

I wanted to have a calendar. You know, a social calendar.  I do!

I wanted to wear skinny clothes that I bought out of a normal store.  I wanted to be able to look in a window at an outfit then go buy it cheaper.  I did!  And, I do!

I wanted to look in the mirror and see a beautiful person.  I did.  I do.  Sometimes.  We're still working on that part...  but the girl looking back at me is no longer 251 lbs, lonely, depressed, without hope.  She's vibrant, energetic, and has come  along way. 

Yes you have done remarkable. I would never have guessed you were once a "fatty". And as for your social calendar, I hope you have me penciled in next week. Grilled chicken and shrimp sounds yummy!

So far these are awesome!
Stacey,
I know what that feeling is like, except a different kind of way.  I was denied three different times access to rides at a theme park.  Three different parks, three different times.  Once even with a friend whom I liked and was very embaressed about!
You know what?  I went back to two of those three parks just within the last couple of months and had NO problems with any of the rides that I was denied in the past.  The third one, I will be going to in about two weeks for my birthday weekend, and you know what... I don't think I will have any problems!

I think that if you went back to Jamica you would not have that same issue either!

Mel,
Those are things that I wanted also.  Some, just as you have, already succeeded in, some still working on...

I want to hear more!

Michael.

I want to take my shirt off and lay out by the pool. I was always so modest about being fat and having those "man boobs". LOL!

Michael,

You can keep the skydiving. If I'm going out of an airplane, parachute or no, it had better be on the way down...in flames!!! LOL

I wanted to rappel. My husband has taken youth groups rappelling for years and it always looked like such fun but I was too big for the largest harness and afraid the rope would not hold me. Several years ago - on one of my many failed diet attempts - I managed to get below 200 and was able to finally fit into an XL harness. I decided I was going to do it on that trip. I did a 30 foot rappel and I can't begin to tell you what a powerful rush that was!!

Now I want to go again but this time I want to rappel Stone Door at Savage Gulf. It is a 150 foot drop with about 20 feet of it being free fall (meaning you are hanging in open space instead of having your feet against the cliff face).

WOW Susan... That sounds like fun.

You need to let me know more about that.  Sounds like something I would want to do!

Michael.

Hey Michael, just an FYI...

I asked hubby about doing a rappelling trip this fall just for some of us post-opers and he said he'd be glad to. We have all of the equipment already.

I'll let you know more when we get closer to setting a date. His summers are really busy so once that slows down but before it gets cold, we will plan a trip. He said the first one will be to B Rock which is about a 30 foot rappel...great for beginners.