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I am 167 now!  I finally don't feel fat.  I mean, I have more to go but I just don't feel fat.  I feel like I'm an average person's size now and that feels wonderful!  I'm now a size 10!  The weight-loss is going slower now as I move further and further away from my surgery date but I'm still losing and that's what counts.  I feel terrific!  This is the best choice I ever made for myself.  That tote that read "pants that don't fit"... well, that's accurate because everything from that tote is now TOO BIG!

Well, it's July 31st and I'm down 61 pounds.  It seems like I've hit a bit of a plateau because I've been this weight (196) for almost 2 weeks.  I suspect that I'll drop a few pounds this weekend.  I just started a morning routine of doing crunches and leg-lifts about 3 days ago.  It's going well and in just 3 days I can already notice a difference on how it's becoming easier to do.  I'm just so happy to be under 200 pounds again.  I haven't seen my scale say 1 something in so very long.  And people have definitely been noticing.  In the past week, I've had more people tell me how much they've noticed my weight-loss than I have had the past 3 months. 

It is now June 3^rd and I’m down 44 pounds! My last blog entry mentioned the tote of clothes with size 14 pants and wanting to be able to fit into them. I am now wearing all of them! It feels so good to be able to wear all of those clothes again. Now I have so many outfits to choose from. I have the larger sizes which I can still wear many of them (they just look a bit baggy on me now) and I have these smaller sizes. I think this weekend it will be time for me to take the bag of clothes that my friend has for me. Yay! It’s like shopping without having to spend any money! Oh, and by the way, I now have a neck again and only one chin. I’m also beginning to see my collar bone and my shoulders aren’t as broad. Although, it is nice to be loosing weight in my breasts, the way that I’m loosing it there kind of disturbs me.  It’s almost as if someone just let the air out of my breasts so they are pretty saggy now. But I guess I have to take the good with the bad and the good definitely outweighs the bad. 

Today is May 13^th, 2009 and I am now down 31 pounds! It’s been 5 weeks since my surgery and I’m feeling great! People say that they can see the weight-loss especially in my face. I’ve noticed that as well as my hands and feet. It’s strange how my extremities are losing the weight the quickest. I have rings that didn’t fit before that fit me now. And rings that only fit on my ring finger now fit on my thumb! My clothes are fitting more loosely now. I notice the weight-loss in my waste, butt, and thighs too as my jeans are becoming a little saggy. I opened a tote the other day that was labeled, “pants that don’t fit”. What a pleasure it was to be able to fit into 3 pairs from that tote. I started as an 18-20 and now it looks as though I’m a 16-18 right now. I have a bunch of 14s that I’m just dying to be able to get into! I have so many cute clothes from when I was that size a few years ago. My best friend had this surgery done a little over a year ago and she has a bag full of clothes ranging in sizes as she went through the different weight stages just waiting for me.  It’s been so long since I’ve been thin that I kind of forget what it is like to easily shop for clothes and not be frustrated by not fitting into things. The feeling of walking around and not feeling fat will be a feeling that I haven’t felt for about 13 years. It will be so nice when I reach that size. 

I received a phone call today telling me that I’ve been approved for gastric bypass surgery. What emotions I felt as I was not expecting to receive that phone call so soon if at all. I was overcome by the feeling of excitement yet scared that this was actually going to happen. Right away they had me set up my surgery date. April 6^th 2009 will be the day that I begin the next part of my journey.