x-post No crying in dressing rooms, NSV :} FoToHo Moi

I finally got my new camera - whoot!  I saw some cute dresses at TJMaxx so I tried them on!  Not sure if I should get them to wear them while grocery shopping.  The FMPs definitely are just for standing in or lying down in *chuckle* definitely not for grocery shopping.  :}

Newbies, on top of not having as much pain my body from lugging around 120some extra pounds, and the fistfull of comorbidities that were going to come from my staying heavy, *ONE* thing I really like is being able to pick out something to try on and a surreally hilarious size *for me* fits and does not leave me in tears.  I was getting some bathingsuit bottoms the other day off clarence (clearance) and I actually picked out shorts N bathingsuit stuff and left the dressing room in smiles.

I do not remember not hating clothes shopping for the longest time, from like 5th gradeish on even with my mama, ugg, clothes shopping was miserable. 

Well, except with my husband, at any size I have been, he can walk into a clothing store, pick out a hand full of things for me to try on and they all are beautiful.  He gotz mad skills.

before me high 260s, 22s.  After goal size 6/8 depending on dress or britches, 143 to 148 or into the 150s if I have come home from vacay!  :}

Anyway - here's some afore N now fotohoing, as promised. 





Yaay!  Thanks for sharing my fun with me.

Ummm, no wonder you left smiling!

VERY CUTE!  

Rosa, I just noticed a number on your stats that should not be changing - Your height! hahahaha what's that?  (I've heard of people shrinking with age, but this is one I've never heard of!) 

Thanks girlie!

HOLY MOLY!  You look fantastic.  I can't help but drooling over your arms -  how in the world did you get them so toned?  Really - I want to know!  You look fantastic. 

Thank you, babygirl!!  Below is a cut and paste of my working outness.

Thanks for the compliments and my apologies if this seems like a blanket answer, because well - it only kind of is! 

Here is my lifting schedule and an interval format I followed early on. 

http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/VSG/4245269/How-in-the-world/page,2/#34896635

But honestly, you do not have to be a muscle head or a gymrat - you can do bodyweight stuff for right now.  Pushups on your knees at first.  Do 5 if you can wide armed, elbows go out, then do 5 arms in close with your elbows coming down by your sides (works triceps more).  Do this a couple of times a day.  Go into the bathroom at work and do it, no you do not have to get on the floor, but you can stand in the stall away from the wall and do it up against the wall.  CONSISTENT SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING!!  Do them in the morning when you wake up, do it at lunch, do it before dinner/after dinner or before bed.  Do triceps dips on a coffee table or a chair.  

OMG...I SO Want those dresses! Too cute and definitely nothing to cry about there! You go girl!

YOu and me too, if I ever find them again, I will tell you the brand! 

Wow - you look smoking hot!  And yes, I too want to know how you got those arms!  They're awesome!

Love the dresses too!

Thank you, honey!!  Below is a cut and paste of the arm stuff!  I went back to try and find the dresses in my size and could not even find the original ones.  BOOO!

Thanks for the compliments and my apologies if this seems like a blanket answer, because well - it only kind of is! 

Here is my lifting schedule and an interval format I followed early on. 

http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/VSG/4245269/How-in-the-world/page,2/#34896635

But honestly, you do not have to be a muscle head or a gymrat - you can do bodyweight stuff for right now.  Pushups on your knees at first.  Do 5 if you can wide armed, elbows go out, then do 5 arms in close with your elbows coming down by your sides (works triceps more).  Do this a couple of times a day.  Go into the bathroom at work and do it, no you do not have to get on the floor, but you can stand in the stall away from the wall and do it up against the wall.  CONSISTENT SOMETHING IS BETTER THAN NOTHING!!  Do them in the morning when you wake up, do it at lunch, do it before dinner/after dinner or before bed.  Do triceps dips on a coffee table or a chair.