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My first NSV posting!!! Not that I haven't had them, but THIS one is something I have been waiting for for a long time...

This morning I PUT ON MY BF'S BRAND NEW JEANS AND THEY FIT!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, I SO wanted to be able to do that when I went to visit him a couple months ago, but I was at least an inch away from them buttoning.

Okay, they are skin tight, but STILL!!!

They're Rustlers 40x30 REGULAR CUT straight leg jeans. And I had them ON. OMG OMG OMG!!

Here's the weird thing, too... I could have sworn I tried them on a month or so ago, and still couldn't get them buttoned. My weight has basically stablized since April 12th - it ranges from 201-213 between then and now.... My low is posted as 201, but I was 207.5 this morning. I was 211.5 the day I flew off to Europe in April - when the pants were at LEAST an inch too small at the waist.

So for those of you for whom the scale is not moving, I'M TELLING YOU - the body does secret compacting stuff, even when the scale doesn't move.

A gal who's only worked here a month and a half caught me in the bathroom yesterday and said, "You've been losing a LOT of weight, haven't you?!" I laughed, because when she started 6/21 I was 204.5. Yesterday I was 208. But I AM smaller - I can feel it in my clothes. This comment from her was based on her observations over the past month and a-half only - NOT on previous knowledge of my weightloss history.

I'm not working out, so it can't be muscle shrinking my body but replacing the weight...

So I don't know why, I don't know how, and I don't really care... I'm still shrinking, no matter what the scale says. So there, scale! :)

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[quoteSo for those of you for whom the scale is not moving, I'M TELLING YOU - the body does secret compacting stuff, even when the scale doesn't move.

So I don't know why, I don't know how, and I don't really care... I'm still shrinking, no matter what the scale says. So there, scale! :) [/b]

Yeah, Donali!!! You continue to be a fantastic source of inspiration. What did your little boyfriend think of you modeling his jeans?

:Bunny :Bunny :banana :Bunny :Bunny :banana

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Congratulations Donali! I know the numbers on the scale control us, getting smaller is exhillerating! Enjoy your sucess! You so deserve it!

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Donali: I have noticed the same phenomenen (sp?). I haven't really lost much weight since about the end of June. Maybe 8 lbs total. But people are still saying to me, "WOW! You are really losing the weight." It is a GREAT feeling. Sometimes we let the scale dictate how successful we are, because after all that is how people judge how much we are losing. I see it as a guideline actually. As long as I am not gaining then I don't care really what the scale says. I can feel it in my clothes as well. I just gave about half my wardrobe to my daughter along with shoes that I can no longer wear cause my feet are smaller. She isn't large but she is a seamstress and can make them fit her.

CONGRATS on the NSV there Donali. Aren't those fabulous???

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Originally posted by New Hope

What did your little boyfriend think of you modeling his jeans?

BF doesn't know yet - he's still living in Germany. I just sent him an email about it. :D He left those new pants here (they still have the tags on them) - not sure why, but he was trying to cut down on his luggage.

Anyway, hopefully by the time he moves in mid-September I can wear them without popping the buttons off and killing innocent bystanders... :) lol

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lol... So you can see the overflowing fat at the top of the jeans??? uhhhh... we'll seee...... :D

P.S. Kellymoos - did you get your Flaunts yet? How are they working for you? :)

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All Right, Donali!! I totally agree with you about the shrinkage. It's almost like there are two completely different processes happening simultaneously: the numbers dropping and the inches coming off. The two seem not related to one another at all.

Yay for you!!! :banana :banana :banana :banana :banana

:):D :mad: :D :D :D

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When my wife lost her weight, it was the little everyday things that meant the most to her.

We had accidentally bought a motorcycle jacket way to small for her two years ago.

Tonight she rode it riding for the first time.

So, you slipping on the small jeans is a great big pat on the back for you. Celebrate that moment any way you can, make it last. There will be more.

Good for Donali!

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Compacting!!!

Ain't it sweet

Go get some hip-huggers

Love NSV's

Tonight she rode it riding for the first time

Congrat's to whip's o'l lady

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WOO HOO DONALI!!!!!! WTG GIRL!!!

Ummmm... I think we are waiting for the pic....LOL.

Darcy

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Okay, when I said they "fit"... I really should have JUST said "I can get them buttoned and zipped." :) They certainly don't FIT in the "wear them in public and live to tell about it" sense of the word. lol

I can't believe I'm posting these pics - fat rolls, and all... (What is WRONG with me?!?! lol It's DeLarla's fault - she brought out the exhibitionist in me, and I can't stuff her back in!! :D )

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:) THIS IS WONDERFUL... WHAT AN ACCOMPLISHMENT!!!!!! And I love LOVE the new bra.... I want one just like it!

And I agree with the others, you are such an inspiration to all of us...

God bless you and.... CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

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