botchy

WOW! I went to get a pair of jeans today b/c I only have one pair left that fit and walked out of that store with a size 6!!! I kept saying "Well Old Navy must be made big" "I'm still at a 10 or 8 in other clothes." "Can this be right?" In high school I was very happy with my body at 135-140 lbs and a size 8-10 (I'm not a petit little girl) so this was my goal. The scale just moved this morning for the first time in a month and a half from 150 to 148. This is 8-13 lbs away from my goal so how can I be asize 6!!!! I'm NOT complaining just confounded. I was just as athletic in hs as now so it can't be the muscle thing! It just makes me unsure. Do I LOOK like a 6? I don't want to walk around thinking I look better than I do!!!! I can't believe this. I haven't been a size 6 since..... not that I ever remember paying attention! I've been no less than 7 since jr. high!!!

Blueyz

Wow! That is such a great feeling, isn't it? I always thought Old Navy pants ran small, so you are probably smaller than a 6. Yippee!! Congrats on your success.

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Blueyz
Open 7/14/04 w/Dr. Callery 4 years out
239/103/125 below Goal fluctuating between 108-115
BMI 18.8~Dr. C is ok with my weight...yeah

Official Scale Whore # 27 (Recovered..I threw mine out!!)

lealphachienne

Part of it is the current trend to vanity sizing. ANother part is due to a different distrubution of fat and muscle. I have a flatter stomach and smaller arms and chest than when I was in high school weighing 115 lbs. I was a size 8 at the time too! I was a 36 B before, now, barely 34 A! Okay, I'm a B cup when you roll the boobs up into them ANyway, I currently wear a 6, which is really baggy in the legs and waist, but snug in the butt and hips d/t the skin sagging into the seat of my pants. I wear a size 4 jacket.....

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Marie
5/28/04
Lap RNY
5'3"
235/125
TT Gym Rat #25
Ehyeh asher ehyeh Exodus 3:14
www.nochilddiesalone.org
www.myspace.com/lealphachienne
www.myspace.com/NoChildDiesAlone

watergirl

Take pictures and don't obsess with the size numbers. How do you feel? How do you feel you look? That's what matters.

Congratulations on your success! You are so close to goal. Stay focused - you'll be there before you know it. And, maybe down one more size!

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Kim
On the road of life, it's not where you go, gut who's by your side that makes the difference.

Wherever you go....there you are.

Wrinkles only go where the smiles have been. - Jimmy Buffett

Lap RNY 8.9.04
266/130
Start BMI 41.6
Current BMI 19.9 I'm finally NORMAL! No longer Morbidly Obese, Obese or Overweight!

Myspace: My URL
http://www.myspace.com/h2o_woman

JohnsWife4Life

I wear size 4-7 at 121-131, but I can't button my favorite pants, size 9. When I weighed 108-118 in my younger days, I never felt comfortable in less than a 7. I figure the sizing is a bit different than in those days, but also the pannus has alot to do with our weight, and how we may feel odd in our smaller clothes. I have said this many times, so to some it will sound like I am a broken record. My pannus is approximately ten to fifteen pounds, give or take a pound or two. So if my pannus was cut off would I weigh 122 pounds today as I did on the scale? I would be under 110 pounds for sure. For my age and height, that is underweight I think. I dunno. I haven't checked lately. I just know that if I didn't have this pannus I would be underweight. My legs are barely bigger than a grapefruit as it is. Isn't it a great feeling to be able to slide into one pant leg, your whole body? I just got a kick out doing that. I pulled them all the way up over my boobs, by the way, my rolled into my bra boobs. I think that is the hardest part of the weightloss, was the loss of my beautiful breasts. I do miss those, and I am sure my husband does too.

Can't have life and boobs, so here I am, Hugs,

Traci

Koren

How encouraging to read these things. I am waiting now for final test results from my sleep study and getting anxious to be approved. Played Bunko with my church group last night and we talked a lot about boobs and plastic surgery. What a great spot to be in; tremendous weight loss, looking and feeling great. Congratulations, keep up the good work. I gotta get there. Thank you for sharing.

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Koren
Dr Potts
Open RNY 7/22/05
322/214/165...
post-op/current/onward...

"Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved."

~William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925)~

Dara

I wear a size 4 now and I weigh 145 lbs. Your body structure can determine what size you will wear. It's weird.

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Dara
Open RNY 4/27/04 Dr. Callery
10-15 lbs. above goal weight and okay with it

Christina

Ditto what Dara said.. I'm the same size as her.. OMG I am THAT skinny??!!! What the heck!! How did that happen.. that really puts it into perspective..

Wow... thanks Dara!! I see the light.. (Between my thighs) LOL

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Christina
Open RNY 03/31/2004
274/128/137 (131 Per Dr. C)
BMI: 47 / 22

"There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self." - Ernest Miller Hemingway

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford

Dara

Christina:

You're so funny! Like you're not teeny enough to be a size 4--c'mon!!!

I still don't think of myself as skinny. I know, I know, it's stupid. I just keep taking those pictures and hopefully, someday, it will become reality to me.

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Dara
Open RNY 4/27/04 Dr. Callery
10-15 lbs. above goal weight and okay with it

Christina

I hear ya on that one!!!

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Christina
Open RNY 03/31/2004
274/128/137 (131 Per Dr. C)
BMI: 47 / 22

"There's nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility is being superior to your former self." - Ernest Miller Hemingway

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." - Henry Ford