What can you do NOW-you couldn't before???

SIZE 6-WOW!!!!! That is my dream size! Congratulations!

I'll keep mine simple I can do anything I freaking want to!!!! woohoo!! Inky

Thats right Inky! I love the different things, it reminded me of more also. The regular bathroom stall is a biggie for me. I also wanted us to focus on these things that are so important to our everyday lives. I know I was as bad as anyone when I had a stall-I about lost my freaking mind. Some of us are nearing the end of the journey while some still have aways to go. It is easy to be discouraged when we focus ONLY on the scales. I am so glad you deicded to celebrate with me just how good life is now!

Ok, this one may be TMI as well....but heck here is goes..... I can finally shave my bikini area!!! Before I needed on arm to hold up the fat, and the other arm to pull my boobs out of the way, then I had to depend on hubby to help me finish the job! YIKES! OOOOOH, I can also fit comfortably in my bath tub! Wahoooo!

All of the above, of course - crossing my legs, not worrying about breaking a chair, kissing Lane Bryant and Catherine's (remember when the name included "Stout Shoppe"?) goodbye and shopping in the normal department rather than in "special sizes", looking at my reflection in a window and doing a double-take (that's really me!), riding the bumper cars at the fair and having the safety bar come ALL THE WAY DOWN, rather than riding on my stomach, being able to walk all over the place for hours and not having to sit down and catch my breath, easily working out, and having my brother ask me what it was like to be the thinnest one in the family. That was a trip. There has been one drawback, one that I can certainly live with: I no longer have enough fat on my butt to cushion me, so I can't sit on something that isn't upholstered very well for very long. I wound up sitting on a pillow on a long trip I took recently. Do I care? Heck, no!!!! Congratulations to all of us. Marcia

hahahahah! I can relate with the less padding in the rear thing! I have found it funny that I can't sit on hard things as long as I used to...But I am loving life like never before, VERY even trade I think. -Shakeira

oh oh oh - bathtub!!! I just reread your post, Shakeira where you said can sit in the tub comfortably. Holy Cow! I take showers - haven't taken a sit down bath since before surgery. Hadn't thought about that. I gotta try it now. Whoa. Thanks for the suggestion!!!! Marcia

Sorry, I meant Dawn - Marcia