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LisaBoston · 12-27-2005, 03:07 PM

Well another Christmas is past us. Hope everyone had a good holiday.

I am off work for 13 days, so lots of time to think about my upcoming surgery - in 9 months. I just realized that for as long as I can remember, I have been shopping in large size ladies clothes. In the past 7 years exclusively at Penningtons.

In my town, we don't have ANY large size stores..sears catologue is here, but I have outgrown the PLUS sizes. The closest shop for large clothes is 3 hrs away. We make the trip every 3 months or so (there is a Costco there too !).

It hit me all of a sudden that when we go, I can spend about an hour in the Pennington's store and get all the new clothes I can find for the next season. After WLS I am going to have to spend probably 3 times that amount of time to find clothes in a variety of stores. I will also be able to shop the Sears catologue, the SAAN store here and the Walmart Store about an hour away. I have very mixed feelings on this. I can't remember a time when I enjoyed trying on clothes.

As I ate my Chirstmas supper this year. (We had seafood fondue instead of turkey) I overstuffed myself and felt sick. Next Christmas will be very different. I truly believe that I am so conscious of what I am eating lately, looking at labels for the grams of sugar, trying out protien drinks and such that I feel I will be prepared when the time comes.

One last thing. I was reading the WLS for dummies last night and wondering about a goal weight for me. Here are the stats....any thoughts on what I should make my goal - reason I ask is that I understand that with WLS, that we will loose 60-75% of the AMOUNT we need to loose. If I set my goal too low, I may not feel successful, if too high...will this be enough? I know it will all depend on time and how I feel, but can anyone assist on where I should set this number based on the following:

Current BMI 47 - 310lbs

Normal BMI - 20-25 (131-164lbs)
Overweight BMI - 25-30 (164-197 lbs)
Obese BMI 30-40 (200 lbs plus)

(PS: the doctor wants me to choose a goal weight) I was 180 lbs when I was 18 years old, my thoughts are 160-180 lbs, but this still keeps me in the overweight category.

For those of you close to goal or at goal, was this an issue for you? Did you change your goal as you went along?