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Remember posting on the 'what I wont miss about being fat' threads? This is the 'what I am looking forward to/doing now that I am at goal/close to goal/on my way to looking and feeling 'normal''

*swimsuit shopping! I dont think there has been a year in recent history where buying a new swimsuit was not met with heart failure!! I am PUMPED to pick out a new one!

*I dont come up with reasons to not meet dh's new friends or to hang out socially with him. I was running out of reasons to NOT have a BBQ and invite all his coworkers over!

*I go to a workout class and I look like everyone else. Unless it is step class, then I just look like I have just recieved my new feet and am learning to use them for the first time.

*A good friend of mine meets me at the gym and does not recognize me from behind. :(

*I can go to the gym for an hour and sweat my face off, cook two meals, play with my kids, run my errands, take the kids to the library, take the dog for a 2 mile walk while pulling a wagon, manage bedtime and bathtime, all in one day and without passing out in a pool of my own drool.

*I dont have towear baggy gym clothes, the cute yoga type stuff fits me and looks cute!

That is all I can think of rightnow!

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1. Running a marathon

2. Sitting at the beach in a swim suit

3. Being in the hot tub

4. Travelling

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After a while, the dardest things come into focus for you. I found that I love to kayak!! I wouldn't have dreamed of doing that before. Swimsuits? I took DH with me to shop and I had fun trying all 12 of the chosen ones on for him. And NONE of them had "skirts"!!! I walk around the house in spandex now. My DH thinks it's "sexy"... Me??? In spandex??? Sexy??? Times they are a changin!!! I got two sporty leather jackets for Christmas. I haven't worn a leather jacket since I was 25!!

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