I just can't wrap my mind around ...

Went shopping yesterday (after Christmas sales, etc.) and actually bought myself some sized 26 pants. I haven't been below a 32 in more than a decade. But I had to really argue with myself to even try them on ... I was just not believing I could fit into them and they're even a little roomy in the thighs (my bane of existence ... huge, flabby, lumpy, droopy ... oh well you get the idea )! I'm down from a 6x top to a large 2x or reg 3x, and even though I read the labels and see the sizes in print, for some reason, my mind just isnt' buying what I'm reading. It's the same thing with the scale .. I see the weight registered ... heck, I even *hear* the weight spoken (have a talking scale) ... and I still don't reaaaaaaaaaaaaally believe it. It's like on the surface my brain is saying ... "ok ... that's cool ... way to go!" ... but underneath it's still saying ... "not true, no way, don't believe it, it's a trick". Ha! I read what I've just typed and it sounds like a lunatic talking ... but it's the closest description to how I'm feeling right now. Anyone else feeling even remotely similar to this? Myra 9 months post op today!! 442/430/288/150

Myra, GOOD FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!! See? I guess all of our deprivation will pay off in the end. Yes..........I know all too well the droopy, flabby, Shar-Pei puppy dog thighs that youre talking about. They match my flabby upper arms so nicely (like a matching set of luggage) I am truly so happy for you! The sky is the limit! willby

Myra thats wonderful! I know it is easier said then done, especially since i am preop and really dont know yet, but you shouldnt be so hard on yourself! You are doing great, be proud! They actually were just talking about this in my support group the other night, I imagine how hard it must be mentally to accept a whole new body after many years of knowing something else. But i guess thats why we are all here, to cheer you on~!Way to go girl!

Myra, I'm in the exact same boat. I can't get my mind around the sizes I can fit into now. I started as a size 32 or 5X. I now easily wear 2X and can even get into some size 20s! Well, sizes are weird, because I am currently wearing a size 22 in jeans, I still have a size 24 that I can't zip up and sit down in comfortably! I just know I'm changing and it is very strange. I was at a party the other night and sitting on the couch. I looked down at my legs and thought, whose legs are these? They can't be mine, can they? Lori 384/263.5/168

Myra, Congrats., I know what you mean too. This morning I pulled an outfit out of the closet from last year. It was a 5x and I had to pull the pants way up under my bra so they didn't drag the ground. LOL its great! deb

hi myra. i think you hit the nail on the head. i'm feeling the exact same way. you don't sound like a lunatic to me, but if you're a loony i guess i'll join you in the bin. i'm officially going to give up my size 28 jeans. you know how all clothes are cut differently? well, i've been wearing the size 28s for some time now and i tried on a pair of 26 dress slacks. TOO BIG. i dug down further and found some stretchy 22-24 AND THEY FIT. i'm afraid i'm dreaming and when i wake up it will be my old self that i wake up to. have you felt that way? i hate to give up the clothes i'm shrinking out of because i worry that the weight will come back and i'll need them again. guess i'm gonna need to work on those head issues some more. anyway, myra. just wanted you to hear from my corner of the world. you're not crazy. i'm not crazy. this is really, really hard work and if we want it to happen for us, we need to work through it. glad i've got you to work through it with, ya know? have a good evening. happy new year. dorthe

Thanks everyone for the responses... it's definitely a new world for me right now ... for all of us!! Dorthe, I knew you'd be right there in the same ballgame with me ... *great minds think alike* ... ain't it so, ain't it so! So ... I'm moving over on the looney bench, sit right on down, Buddy! to everyone! Myra

greetings myra you don't sound looney at all to me...you sound just like me! i was wearing 6X's prior to surgery...and the other day i bought a pair of size 18 pants...i can't even believe it. when i go to put on a shirt that pulls over my head, and i have my arms in it and am looking for the neck hole, i swear the size of the shirt that i feel with my arms just can't be big enough for my body...but it is! it's just so weird! a few weeks ago, i was able to fly without the seat belt extender, and fit in one seat with the armrest down. but the tray table still wouldn't fit me...i went to florida for xmas...and wonder of wonders, i tried the tray table and IT FIT! i left it down for the whole trip! life now is just a constant source of amazement. it's really hard to get your mind around your new body. but i guess it's one of those things that will catch up in time. best to you! and a happy new year! deb -218

Flying is still a goal ahead of me ... one I've set for myself because I've NEVER been in an airplane, EVER! My daughter's husband is from England and they've invited me to go there with them one of their trips in the future. I REALLY want to do that ... but in the past I would never have fit in a seat, let alone endured a 9 hour flight and the walking around it would have taken just to get there. I'm so happy for you, and you're such an inspiration! Thanks! Myra (only 12 pounds away from my next -25 lb goal ---> to weigh 275 lbs.) Who ever thought I'd be to weigh what I weigh?!? But I am! M

Myra.. I am so happy for you and I don't think you're loony at all. OK well for a minute when you said you could "hear" your scale when you weigh yourself.. BUT you cleared that up by explaining it's the talking kind!!