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☠carolinagirl☠    18,721

☠carolinagirl☠
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.....i like.......no, scratch that....

..i LOVE my life now....

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kll724    3,055

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Congrats to all of you!

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Sharpie    3,306

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I love being able to shop til I drop..

buying regular size clothes,, actually petite sizes

love keeping up with my grandkids

crossing my legs

shaving my legs easily

wearing skinny jeans

riding my horse

no more diabetes

no more high blood pressure

no more high cholesterol

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parisshel    1,892

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Love this thread....I'm "liking" all of your posts, everybody!

For me:

I love not being "on" or "off" a diet.

I love my small portions of delicious food. I love not using "diet" foods or "fake" foods to replace real, tasty food.< /p>

I love not counting the hours until I can eat again.

I love not stressing out about parties/restaurants/invitations for dinner and wondering if I will be able to find something to eat that is "on program."

I love crossing my legs over and over again. This is probably bad for circulation, but I just love sitting down, crossing my legs and hooking one leg behind the other...makes me feel like a thin person!

I love how small my stomach has gotten and how I now have a lap.

I love that my GP took me off statins (which I'd been on for two years) because hello, cholesterol is now normal!

I love being able to browse in normal-size clothing stores and not feel like the salesgirl is rolling her eyes thinking "why is she bothering?"

I love how much more self-care I do: my hair, my makeup, my outfits, my skincare regime, my massages. It all makes me feel good and like I'm taking care of myself because I'm worth taking care of.

I love that my BF gave me Christmas-themed lingerie ;) and can't keep his hands off of me.

I love all my activity: elliptical, long and fast walks, long bike rides, aquagym. In fact, I love it so much, I sustained a stress-fracture in my foot due to too much sport! (I don't love that pain so much, but I love bragging about how this came about.)

I love being free from feeling hungry and feeling deprived.

Most of all: I love how fierce I've become. I'm so glad I did this.

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B-52    7,113

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Love this thread....I'm "liking" all of your posts, everybody!

For me:

I love not being "on" or "off" a diet.

I love my small portions of delicious food. I love not using "diet" foods or "fake" foods to replace real, tasty food.< /p>

I love not counting the hours until I can eat again.

I love not stressing out about parties/restaurants/invitations for dinner and wondering if I will be able to find something to eat that is "on program."

I love crossing my legs over and over again. This is probably bad for circulation, but I just love sitting down, crossing my legs and hooking one leg behind the other...makes me feel like a thin person!

I love how small my stomach has gotten and how I now have a lap.

I love that my GP took me off statins (which I'd been on for two years) because hello, cholesterol is now normal!

I love being able to browse in normal-size clothing stores and not feel like the salesgirl is rolling her eyes thinking "why is she bothering?"

I love how much more self-care I do: my hair, my makeup, my outfits, my skincare regime, my massages. It all makes me feel good and like I'm taking care of myself because I'm worth taking care of.

I love that my BF gave me Christmas-themed lingerie ;) and can't keep his hands off of me.

I love all my activity: elliptical, long and fast walks, long bike rides, aquagym. In fact, I love it so much, I sustained a stress-fracture in my foot due to too much sport! (I don't love that pain so much, but I love bragging about how this came about.)

I love being free from feeling hungry and feeling deprived.

Most of all: I love how fierce I've become. I'm so glad I did this.

THIS is one of the best posts I have red here in a long time.....NO Ra-Ra "You can Do It" positive thinking, or how hard it is to make it work and struggling just to get by.....no whining or complaining.....

Just straight forward, simple, and TRUE responses to everyday circumstances that can only be realized from a direst result of the band....

You obviously "Get It" and are "In It"....enjoying your new life and everything the band has to give it....if we only let it do it's job.....

I hope everybody who reads your post will see just how straight forward and simple this all can be....and not be so quick to abandon the band and why we had surgery in the first place.....

(If I was your BF....never mind.)

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☠carolinagirl☠    18,721

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........yesterday, we were looking at a new HD (found nothing really that we both could agree on) ahem

and i cant tell you how exciting...how unbelievable it is to be able to throw your leg over and get on with NO

worries...issues or doubt if you can...just something i thought id toss in the fray as i was thinking about it this morning

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kll724    3,055

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I like that I can borrow or lend clothes to my "normal, or perhaps underweight, daughter-in-law. And how everyone thinks that we are mother/daughter instead of inlaws!

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BandedDietitian    13

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1. Airplane seats (the seat belt BARELY closed at my fattest weight and I almost needed the expander)

2. Weighing less than my husband

3. Gardening for 8+ hours and not having my back hurt for an entire week

4. Hiking faster and not feeling pain the days after

5. Riding a bike and not having my gut be squished by my thighs as I pedal

6. No more spare tire (after my body lift of course)

7. Clothes shopping

8. Full length mirrors

9. Always having my eyes bigger than my stomach even on my "cheat" days

10. Going to the doc to be weighed, have my blood pressure taken, having blood work done (they're all NORMAL!)

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