Yet another surprise experience post op

I'm about 10 and a half months post op, and down 93 pounds; I read on here about peoples' experiences with their new, healthier bodies, and today, and I sort of surprised myself with two situations. The first one, I ran up the stairs (well, ok, I am wearing heels so I WALKED up the stairs) for a meeting at work; I was a little out of breath when I got to the top, and my INSTINCT was to hide until I caught my breath. Then it occurred to me in a heartbeat that because I am no longer fat (I'd still like to lose another 20 pounds, but I'm pretty content where I am), no one would think I was out of breath because of lugging around all that extra weight. That thought was sort of liberating - that you could actually be out of breath because you just trudged up the stairs, NOT because you're fat. The other thing that happened was I realized that for the first time in my life, if I'm going to wear nice pant suits and skirts at work, and am going to tuck my blouse in, which I've started doing, I'm probably going to need to invest in a belt or two. I have never before wanted to draw attention to my waist, but suddenly the thought of doing so was sort of neat. I guess my question was, what other ingrained habits have you longer term post ops found became obsolete as you lost the weight? I wonder what else I'm going to "discover".

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