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Totally understand...and then there is the later issue...
I got to 121 for 10 seconds...been headed up back to a good weight since but every lb back UP feels like a failure when on the way down the SAME EXACT WEIGHT felt like a victory!
Clematis
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Yeah, I fear the bounce back, but it will be quite a while before I get to the weight I need to be before I worry about that.
On the way up I bought a pair of beige pants, put them on once and, horrified at how fat I looked in them, took them off and threw them in the closet where they have been for 15 years. I haven't worn anything but black or dark navy pants since -- usually heavy and tight like jeans as to smooth out my fat-puckered thighs. But hahaha I've been wearing those old beige pants everywhere this week and feel positively svelte.
On the way up I bought a pair of beige pants, put them on once and, horrified at how fat I looked in them, took them off and threw them in the closet where they have been for 15 years. I haven't worn anything but black or dark navy pants since -- usually heavy and tight like jeans as to smooth out my fat-puckered thighs. But hahaha I've been wearing those old beige pants everywhere this week and feel positively svelte.
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Fun stuff! I have a closet full of clothes that I have been hanging on to thinking my brother could wear them throughout his downward trend, IF he gets the DS. That being said, he hasn't done it and just started a job that has no benefits so I am thinking he isn't ever going to do it now. He knows he needs it, but his wife has MS and is on disability and I know he is worried about not having any income from him while recovering. ....anyway, it is cool to wear stuff you couldn't in the past, but not it is time for me to donate my old clothes to Goodwill or somebody else.
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Hahahahaha. I have a lot of things from quite a while back, but wife said not to me bringing back the Mullet and baloon pants!
I've run across some of those in thrift stores...I am notorious for just cutting them out.
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I'm not a saver. The last time I had any luck dieting I was going through a divorce and doing Atkins. I got down to 204 #. 2 years later I started putting on weight. I would save some of the clothes and after about a year would realize I would never fit in them again. So I would donate them. I did save a leather jacket that I pulled out the other day and it fit. The same day I went through my closet and dresser and got rid of 4 garbage bags of clothes. needless to say I have plenty of space in my dresser and closet now.
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Hahahahaha. I have a lot of things from quite a while back, but wife said not to me bringing back the Mullet and baloon pants!
Uh, so you think you could still grow a mullet???
I tried that a long time ago but then the shoulders look droopy and odd -- some of those pads were huge.
I found a box of old aerobics gear with leotards with thong-like leg holes up to my hips and, of course, leg warmers! The 80s were an ugly fashion decade. And those baggy clothes let me get away with too much weight gain.
I'm going to a party tomorrow and it's been a struggle to find something that fits and isn't too embarrassingly out of date. I do not understand why a pair of dress pants that I wore when I weighed nearly 20# less, fit me now. And they're not pants that I wore until they stretched out. Since we had a freak snowstorm last night, I thought maybe I'd wear my mink, bought 13 years and 20# ago which I could not close in February -- it is like a fur tent on me. I look like Hagrid.
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...and the third time was wrenching and the fourth time was glorious and the fifth time was suicidal and the sixth time emancipating... I could go on. [sigh]
200 didn't phase me...I was 199 the morning of surgery but only 203 a few weeks before. I floated between 195-210 for the longest time. It's also why my primary insurance refused to let me have WLS...while I didn't have to have a 6 month diet, I did have to have 5 years of MO (above a 35) and too many of those years, I was in the 34.something BMI. Thankfully my secondary was Medicare (thru a Medicare Advantage PPO plan) and as long as I met the criteria the day I signed into the surgeon's office, they were fine.
MY THRILL was the day I hit 180 which was 2 lbs lower than I weighed when I got married (going on 20 years ago now)
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It's a daunting task for me to tackle my closet. I find it overwhelms me so I just close the door on it. I wanted to give some of my nicer stuff to others on their way down the digits but that Facebook site I found you have to pay the shipping too!! I would be giving up on the tax write off as it is. I have some stuff that's too big and I can't part with it cause I paid so much for it. I do need to find a good home for some things. I do know exactly how difficult it is to find nice clothes in big sizes. Not to mention nice fabrics!! Some designers seem to thing fat girls should not wear natural fabrics but instead wear polycotton and spandex. Uck. Maybe they insist on flame retardant fibers fearing out fat thighs rubbing together may start forest fires!!!
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I tackled mine over the Easter long weekend. Sorted into sizes so I have only what I have in circulation in my wardrobe, and the rest packed into the right sizes. It felt really good to get it done!
