Debbie Downers

H.A.L.A B.
on 5/31/18 7:29 am

Long time ago I realized that reading and comprehending hat you read is 2 different things. Even in business legal things.

Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG

"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"

"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."

(deactivated member)
on 5/31/18 5:31 am

I believe most people are not talking about saving larger plus size clothing....

catwoman7
on 5/31/18 6:30 pm

RNY on 06/03/15

I don't think they meant that. I got rid of all my 5x clothes. I'm now a medium in most things, but I've hung on to my larges and a few XL's, even though most of them are a bit too big for me now. Hopefully I'm done with bounce back (I gained 12 lbs - ugh), but I've got plastic surgery coming up, so I'll probably be in those larges again for awhile (i.e., swelling...). And hopefully I won't gain any more weight (I have to watch it like a hawk, though, because it starts heading north pretty quickly when I haven't paid attention for a few days), but who knows. I don't ever plan to be back in a 2x, 3x, 4x, or god forbid, 5x ever again, though. So those I got rid of....

RNY 06/03/15 by Michael Garren (Madison, WI)

HW: 373 SW: 316 GW: 150 LW: 138 CW: 163

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 6/1/18 9:26 pm - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

No one told her to save ALL of her big clothes... just not to get rid of everything that is too big on the way down. If she gets down to a size 8 and gets rid of all of her 10's and 12's and then bounces back 10 pounds (easily a change of one size), it would be better to have saved some of the 10s and 12s instead of buying NEW clothes to replace ones that she just got rid of a couple of months earlier.

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

Gwen M.
on 5/30/18 12:47 pm

VSG on 03/13/14

I don't think it's so much that people are "debbie downers," just that different people have different experiences. I, personally, think it's good to get the full spectrum of possibilities in replies here. That way I really know what I'm getting into and all the possible things that could happen. Just because I read advice here doesn't mean I have to take it, after all. My dad always said, "Free advice is worth what you pay for it."

I definitely have gotten rid of clothes the moment they've stopped fitting. I care way more about the way clothes fit than I used to and I'm super picky about fit now. I guess because I can be. When I was 320lb, I couldn't be that picky.

I haven't had the experience of my clothes starting to be to tight, but I know if they do feel that way, that it'll be a sign I need to change something I'm doing.

VSG with Dr. Salameh - 3/13/2014
Diagnosed with Binge Eating Disorder and started Vyvanse - 7/22/2016
Reconstructive Surgeries with Dr. Michaels - 6/5/2017 (LBL & brachioplasty), 8/14/2017 (UBL & mastopexy), 11/6/2017 (medial leg lift)

Age 42 Height 5'4" HW 319 (1/3/2014) SW 293 (3/13/2014) CW 149 (7/16/2017)
Next Goal 145 - normal BMI | Total Weight Lost 170

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MaryEllen OntheEastCoast
on 5/30/18 1:41 pm - CT

They're not negative - they're realistic. They've been here many years and have seen and heard a lot. They've experienced a lot.

They know a few things.

Teresa G.
on 5/30/18 1:43 pm

VSG on 06/07/18 with

Again, it's all in the delivery.

Good grief, I was posting about being approved by my insurance. And that I was getting rid of my big clothes. I didn't realize it would cause such a **** storm.