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and I think part of it too is I hate all this stupid hangy loose skin!!! I have this huge pouch of skin in my lower stomach area, from being pregnant 3 times and all the weight loss I had down there. I have a ton of loose skin on my upper thigs, hips, and butt area too. I have some loose skin or "batwings" as you call it on my upper arms and hate that. I really would love a lower body lift and either a boob lift or a BA, but it's going to cost too much money!! I think maybe one day, if we start saving, I could do a TT and get rid of that stupid stomach fat I have hated so much since I had my first baby 8 yrs ago. But we are 99% sure we are done having kids, but not totally sure yet, so I'm not going to start saving yet.

I would love to get a TT in like 5-10 yrs though, it would be heaven to have some part of my body look somewhat like it did before babies and the weight came on!!!

Such a timely post for me, I was just having this sentiment today.  I live in Florida and it is so stinkin hot.  I was DYING for a frozen yogurt, shake, something to relieve me.  And there are all these cute trendy new yogurt bars around here.  I compromised with a kid's cup at Smoothie King, no added sugar, was supposed to be just fruit and protein.  Did I dump?  Of course I did!  I miss cold, ice cream-y things that won't make me bend over in horrible, heart racing pain and nausea.  And then of course I had to take a nap. 

I also miss my old capacity at holidays!!  When all that huge spread is before you and you can only eat so much of it...and I can't eat tons of the sweets cause of the dumping...

I do sometimes miss my old stomach (but NOT the weight, of course!)...

-I miss being able to eat more than somewhere between 1/4 to 1/2 C of ice cream. (Me looooooves ice cream!)
-I miss Icees in the summer.
-I REALLY miss my NSAIDs and Celebrex.
-I miss Godfather's Classic Combo pizza (with extra cheese).

Sometimes it makes me sad when I'm eating something yummy (especially if it's HEALTHY and yummy) and I have to quit eating so soon because my pouch is full. It definitely makes me sad that I ever needed the surgery in the first place, and occasionally it really annoys me that the sleeve was not available to me 4 years ago.

What's done is done, though, and cannot be undone.  I'm still within 5-7 pounds of my goal weight (although NOT without significant effort) at 2 months short of 4 years out, so I'm happy with that.

Lora

A to the men sister!!!!!!!!

I miss not having to be aware....the happy-go-lucky of my day to day choices. NOt having to fret about what's going to be offered at teh all day meeting..even though i eat everything in moderation, it's not cool to have utter crap before you all day long, ya know?

And I express DS envy quite often to my surgeon's group and I'm told the same thing....that those patients struggle with some of the same things. I told them they seem to be able to keep weight off easier and they said I'm not talking to the right people...who knows? They also told me that obviously I'm doing things right so why fix it if it ain't broken?

One day at a time...but know that you are sooo not alone.

I do notmiss the old stomach.  Whenever I make s poor food decision I think about how much worse it would have been before 2/9/09.  

There's no need to be down on youself for needing surgery.  There have been documentaries on biggest looser contestants who wind up losers in the negative snse.   Like the typical dieter, they regain the weight plus more.  With an over 90% failure rate a biggest loser type plan over wls is simply foolish for people who've repeatedly tried and failed.  If a treatment for any other condition had such a high failure rate who would ever advocate it?  

I don't miss anything that made me and kept me fat.  I've accepted this diet for life.  I refuse to wear clothes that are not sized in the single digets ever again.  The rules of this never ending diet don't bother me because I can slip into a size zero jeans.  Todays zero is a 1970's size ten; that was my dream size back then.  Its all so worth it.   

I'm only a month out, so I'm a little different than you vets, but so far I miss the burn...the burn of a soft drink, even diet, going down my throat. I miss gulping-it's really hot in Alabama.  And, I miss waking up in the morning and not stressing the entire day about getting both my protein and my fluids in.  I feel like all I think about is food, and when am I going to poop....  LOL!

I'm super grateful for my WLS but do miss a few things. NSAIDs, real ice-cream, war French bread with butter, chicken Alfredo, coconut cream pie. Small sacrifices for health because nothing tastes as good as this healthy feels.

No, I really don't miss the "old days"......and every time I EAT like I did in the old days, I am reminded of that! But that doesn't stop me from doing it again and again and again! Sometimes I forget I ain't normal....