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Monica P.
on 12/16/08 1:49 am - Long Beach, CA

My co-workers have been nagging me for a while now about my pants. "They're too big!" So I go out and buy pants, and I keep on trying on 16s and buying them....because I was convinced that I'm not small enough to be a 14 yet.

The last time I was at Target I couldn't find the pants I wanted in 16, so I picked a pair of 14s and tried them on...they fit. The hand-me-down pants that Janine gave me have been haning in in my closet for a while now. I got tired of trying them on and not being able to button them. But now two pairs of them fit.

I also got brave and tried on a dress....not a stretchy knit dress. No, a tailored fitted dress that zippered up the back in a 14. It fit. I didn't need it, but I bought it anyways.

When I got my flat tire on Sunday and I was walking my bike back, the sun was shining on my back and cast a shadow in front of me....I noticed how narrow I looked in the hips. It was a nice diversion from my flat tire and how mad I was. I really have come a long way from a size 26.

Now last night I went to buy a coat....because I'm freezing all the time without my "fat-suit" to keep me warm. The coat I wanted was no longer availlbe in XL. So.....I tried on the L...put my arms in it....closed it.....BUTTONED IT.....then BUCKLED THE BELT. It fits perfectly!

So I admit it now. I wear a 14 and I wear a size large. I couldn't even do that in high school!!!!!

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired."
- George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian

ShellsBells
on 12/16/08 1:55 am - Vallejo, CA

RNY on 05/07/08

You go girl!!!

Ya know its funny, I was having the same shadow moment yesterday!

Keep up the great work!

Shells

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madame_butterfly
on 12/16/08 2:04 am - Where the Sun Shines, CA

RNY on 11/13/06

Congratulations on all your successes!
You've earned every one of them!

Kim

highest :313 | current :124 | low goal :145 | lowest: 118

cabin111
on 12/16/08 2:17 am

RNY on 10/09/06

My wife and kids never knew what to get me for birthdays or Christmas...Now it's easy...Warm clothes!! Brian

Maureen N.
on 12/16/08 2:18 am - Redding, CA

RNY on 09/08/08

Isn't it just the coolest feeling to be putting on clothes you never dreamed of being able to wear??? I've been having the same exstatic moments and enjoying every minute of it!

Congratulations! Keep up the good work chickie!

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rlfroo
on 12/16/08 4:11 am - Hesperia, CA

RNY on 08/01/08

Maureen, your not forgetting those red pants are mine when you shrink out of them right? lol

Maureen N.
on 12/16/08 4:36 am - Redding, CA

RNY on 09/08/08

I'm not forgetting!!!!! However, me-thinks I'll make you come up here and pick them up!!!! Hahaha.

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rlfroo
on 12/16/08 7:19 am - Hesperia, CA

RNY on 08/01/08

I think that is fair. How close are you to the wine country? I want to go there in the early summer if possible and we could just pop by then! lol. Talk to you soon.

Rhonda

Maureen N.
on 12/16/08 7:20 am - Redding, CA

RNY on 09/08/08

About 3 hours.

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Ms Shell
on 12/16/08 3:02 am - Hawthorne, CA

VSG on 11/26/07

Awww turtle dove congratulations =)

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