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So, quite awhile back i started a similar thread, but considering all the new folks, i figured it was time to do this again!
Post your top few items of you "cannot wait till" list... For some of those a ways out from surgery, yours would be more like "I finally can..."
For me....
I cannot wait till....
1....I can walk around campus without my cane and without (or at least less) pain!
2.... I can fit comfortably into the desks at school.
3.... I can go shopping for "normal" sizes!
4.... I can actually play with my grandkids :)
I of course could add a zillion more!
What are yours???
Post your top few items of you "cannot wait till" list... For some of those a ways out from surgery, yours would be more like "I finally can..."
For me....
I cannot wait till....
1....I can walk around campus without my cane and without (or at least less) pain!
2.... I can fit comfortably into the desks at school.
3.... I can go shopping for "normal" sizes!
4.... I can actually play with my grandkids :)
I of course could add a zillion more!
What are yours???
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
being able to waer normal sized clothes...that may sound strange coming from a male lol...but i was so SICK AND TIRED of having to shop at the outlet stores that carried fat guy stuff only!!
my other was to be able to go out and eat and sit in a BOOTH...
I can fit in a booth now!
I wanna build a custom Harley so that everything fits me perfectly. Not with controls too far out for my short legs. I wanna hunt a moose!
My bucket list is different than most.
1. I want to be able to go back to work.....
2. I want to have normal size boobs that don't bounce when I walk....
3. I want to be able to help others who have struggled with this illness...
4. I want to be a size 7/8....
5. MOSTLY: I want to be healthy and share many years with my hubby...
2. I never want to have to ask for a seat belt extender or see the stares of people who hope i don't sit next to then on a plane, train, bus, etc.
3. I want to go shopping in a regular store and walk pass the plus size clothes.
4. I want to be able to walk without stopping and gasping for breathe (almost there since the surgery)
5. I want to sight see my grandchildren and not get exhausted one hour into the excursion.
6. I love to dance - so my hearts desire is to dance on legs that sustain me and don't fail me because of arthritic pain.
7. I want to be in a crowd and the fat jokes are no longer about me. (nor should they be about anybody)
8. I want to go on that cruise with the mindset that I won't be the cause of the ship sinking. (lol, may sound humorous but its always been my fear)
9. I want to to walk on the beach with my husband in a bathing suit and not feel disgusted because everyone is staring at me saying "she knows better"
10. I want to make make mad passionate love to my husband without getting tired - well tired is a good thing but I want all of my sexy back.
11. I want to live to live not struggle to live
I think that should do it for now.
a healthier future with no obesity complications...
freedom...
to walk by a mirror in a store and not feel disgust ;-)
>walk up and down hills/stairs etc and not be winded!
>sit curled up comfortably on a chair/couch without squeezing my
breath out
>smile because I know I am growing healthier by the day
>play softball like i did when I was in my 20's...like a bad-ass
>cross my legs like a skinny person :)
>sleep a SOLID 8-9 hrs/night without interruption
>not tinkle when I laugh hard, cough, sneeze, etc
>do my Insanity workouts and give that chick Tanya a run for her money in those dvd's...i got your number Sean T!!!
- I'm not the bigger sister anymore
- People actually look me in the eye
- I love to do the cross my leg shoe dangle thing
- I can feel and see my ribs
- I'm cute
- Look 20 years younger
- Student Dads try to pick me up
- People come to help me and offer to help me
- Can fit in rollercoasters
- Thinking about white water rafting and water activities
- I'm a great role model for my students. I told them i lost weight by eating the low fat high protein school lunch :)
I love being able to cross my legs and sit comfortable in a chair!!!
I want/wanted the following things too...
... to be able to shop in a regular store and not out of a catalog - almost there!!!
... to NOT be the fatest person in the room everywhere i go
... to be healthy so I can live long enough to see my daughter get married and have children some day.
I want to wear high heels again and not have people pity the shoes!
I want to walk without my thighs rubbing together
My list could go on and on.....
cross my legs, wear heels again, shop all day with my daughter, go fishing with my husband without wondering how to get in and out of the boat, ride my bike without the tire looking flat, garden for more than 5 minutes, buy clothes than I love not that just fit, start entertaining again, buy Victoria secret bras, go my high school reunion in the sexiest black dress I can find, but most of all live a healthy and active life......no peanut butter cup is worth losing any of this!