Wow how encouraging this post is!!! I'm getting my surgery date this week and I can't wait to fill like you do right now. That's wonderful. With so many people in my life telling me aa the dangers it so refreshing to hear the positive aspect as with anything. I know it's hard work but in the end it will all be worth it.... Congradulations on your size 12!!! I have been a size 22 for so long I have no idea how in going to act when I see the weight dropping down...You nailed it right on the head with (( Surreal))

Thanks for the encouraging words. I so needed that.
Congrats and keep up the good work.

Good post. Congrats and keep up the hard work.
Star

Hey Hope...It's Elizabeth...Congrats on your 12's baby...I never expect to single digits until I have been dead at least six months...lol...and then y'all better get a second opinion...no seriously..check it again...but I will be happy if I can just see a 14...I swear a 14 and i will be grinning from ear to ear, with both hands trying to keep my ears from being sucked into my mouth...
It's probably been 30 years since I have been in a sizr 14..probably since I was 10 or eleven years old. I can't even remember it's been so long ago. I remember getting down into a size 20 for about six months after I lost my baby, simply out of sever depression, but then, well we all knows what happens after that...three years later is when I had thr stroke, then blew up like a hot air ballon and topped out at 409...but as of yesterday my pre-op weight loss, is 105 pounds and I am going into liquids starting a week from today. I don't wait around, and today has been a testing day. Yep, I have wanted to eat so bad, but have resisted...my last protein shake is in the freezer now, chilling down to get slushy and I am on my way now to get it. Come on September 15!!!
Congrats again HOPE>>>SIZE 12...man I can only dream of such!!!

Oh wow Hope, congrats. I absolutely understand the size 14 by the way.

Hope,


Congrats on the weight loss and the size 14!

I started my journey 18 months ago and I said I'd be happy at a 10 or a 12. I never dreamed I would go into single digits. I was a 16 when I graduated from HS and a 12-14 when I graduated from college with massive dieting and working out my senior year b/c my sister told me she would buy my graduation dress but only if it was a size 10, she wouldn't get me anything bigger. That same sister is a size 10-12, so that's what I figured I would be.

I am now a size 6!! I am smaller than when I was in Junior High! I think the last time I was a 6 I was 6 (and that was a 6X husky girls).

There is hope (pun intended) out there for all of you waiting for surgery or who just had surgery!

Thanks for sharing!

Laura

OMG now I am very excited about the future!!!!!! THANK YOU!

hope you are right where i am i also skipped size 14 and am in a size 12. Its funny though i still see the fat girl i was than i do my laundry and my clothes look so small. i see it in my clothes just not on myself. People call me skinny which iam not still got the stomach and leg flab. I have been heavy for so long it kindof bothers me when some says i am skinny. i had my husband point out some who was about my weight when we were at the groc. that helped some. Will i ever really see me,instead of the blob i was. hmmm. Anyway congrats on the size 12.

Congratulations! I was also 265 to start out. I'm at 221 now at 11 weeks, and just starting to get into 18 pants. I agree with others, that I would be estatic at a 14 and wowed if I get to a 12. Even though I was very small in high school, probably a 5, I don't expect to ever get to that small a size again. I gained most of my weight in my 30's and then had another weight gain in the last ten years that just really pushed me over the edge. I am still having major self doubts that I can accomplish what you and others have. It's hard to undo 30 years of self doubt!

Hope,
That was such an encouraging post. I enjoy reading your responses and words of support that you share on this site. I am only 11 1/2 weeks and you give me something to look forward too. I am not a fast loser but it is steady and that's fine with me. I feel pretty good and try to do cardio like walking on a treadmill 3 times a week. After I read some of your posts I don't feel alone at all. Thanks again, Jena

Great timing for this post -- surgery is Monday and I could use that longer term focus. I'm really LOL reading everyone's homage to size 14 --that's my fantasy goal, too. The smallest I've been as an adult (which started at age 12 for me!!) was a 12 and that lasted for a minute and a half. So thanks for the encouragement and look forward to seeing you all on the other side of surgery!!!!