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10-13-2009, 08:32 PM
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Never want to go back!
Thread Starter
Join Date: Apr 2006
Posts: 2,804
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Height: 6 ft
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Finally starting to feel like I'm changing
For the longest time, I could see numbers on the scale dropping, but didn't see my body changing. While the pounds lost was a happy thing, there was something lacking in the whole experience because I have felt the same as ever. This has resulted in a lot of up and down moods for me lately - sad and discouraged on days when the scale doesn't move, happy yet frustrated on the days it dropped because I couldn't see it.
Today was the first day I really feel different. I'm comfortably several sizes smaller in my clothes as of this week, wore a new bra that's two band sizes smaller than the ones I've worn forever and hated because they looked old-ladyish and holy cow the girls looked like I'd had them enhanced today, and a glance in the car's rear view mirror revealed that I've only got one chin today. I can see my collarbones, my thighs are much smaller now, I can run up and down the stairs, and I can scratch the middle of my back when I get an itch. I'm sitting here in a fleecy top that when I bought it at my heaviest, I cried because I looked like a lumpy stuffed sausage in it and threw it in the back of my closet. The weather was cold and wet today so I hauled it out, worried it would still make me look like a sausage. But it's almost too big and I look good, darn it! I know this didn't happen overnight, but jeez it feels that way.
I don't ever want to go back. I just want to go forward.
Last edited by CLCSC145; 10-14-2009 at 02:14 AM.
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10-13-2009, 08:44 PM
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I luv my curves
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: NJ
Posts: 3,503
S/C/G: 255/ticker/180
Height: 5'1 3/4
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Congrats job well done!
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10-13-2009, 08:48 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2009
Posts: 456
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Congratulations!!! Isn't it weird how all of a sudden you notice these major changes, like it happened overnight??
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10-13-2009, 08:59 PM
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Finding my wings...
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Crown Point, Indiana
Posts: 1,075
S/C/G: 256/see ticker/156
Height: 5'2 and a freakin' HALF!
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I SO know what you mean! I laughed outloud when I read the whole scratching that part of your back bit..... I discovered the same thing a few weeks ago!!!
So awesome! Keep goin chica!
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10-13-2009, 10:16 PM
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3 + years maintaining
Join Date: Sep 2006
Posts: 12,070
S/C/G: 287/120's
Height: 5 foot nuthin'
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Oh CC, I am SO happy for you. You're hard work is paying off and you're really beginning to reap the rewards. I gotta warn you though, hold on tight. Because now that you've started noticing the differences, whoa, they are really, really going to start surfacing now. Be ready to be blown away. Just blown away. The rewards are just THAT great. It's better than anything you could have ever imagined.
Sounds like you're in a real good place right now. I look forward to hearing of your continued success and wonderful discoveries. Congratulations.
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10-13-2009, 11:18 PM
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Ironman in Training
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Chicago
Posts: 1,780
S/C/G: 302/205/150
Height: 5'5
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Yep, they are going to start happening fast now. Once I got under 240 I could see changes better and under 220 I was seeing a big difference every 5 pounds. 5 pounds! Imagine that! Us bigger girls know what its like to lose 20, 30 pounds and hardly ever be able to tell. Now I know why thin woman whine about 5-10 pounds here or there it's a pretty noticeable difference.
Woo Hoo! Congrats!
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10-13-2009, 11:24 PM
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NEVER EVER going back
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 3,747
S/C/G: 377/240's/150
Height: 5 feet 5 inches
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I am so happy and so proud of you! I remember when all of a sudden it was like "wow... so I HAVE lost weight!!!!" what a great feeling. You are doing SO WELL!
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10-14-2009, 12:58 AM
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Finding my wings...
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Crown Point, Indiana
Posts: 1,075
S/C/G: 256/see ticker/156
Height: 5'2 and a freakin' HALF!
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Idealmuse
Us bigger girls know what its like to lose 20, 30 pounds and hardly ever be able to tell. Now I know why thin woman whine about 5-10 pounds here or there it's a pretty noticeable difference.
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So true!
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10-14-2009, 01:06 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Manitoba
Posts: 562
S/C/G: 270.6/161.0/150
Height: 5'8"
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Congratulations! I just reached this milestone myself recently. Amazing!
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10-14-2009, 01:34 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: Pacific Northwest
Posts: 2,088
Height: 5'11"
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CC, congratulations! I have only recently really started to really be able to notice as well and isn't it a great feeling? I'm so happy about your fleece top. It's those little things that make such a big difference, and can make for a really happy day. Your hard work is paying off!
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10-14-2009, 01:50 AM
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fat chick FKA Velveteen
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Arnhem, the Netherlands
Posts: 1,441
Height: 5'5½
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So awesome, I want to cry with joy when I read posts like this!! Great job CC and keep going, girl!!!
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10-14-2009, 07:43 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: New York
Posts: 2,690
S/C/G: 299/see ticker/140
Height: 5'4''
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Great job CC!!! You are doing fantastic!
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10-14-2009, 08:45 AM
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One day at a time!
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: The deep south
Posts: 4,349
S/C/G: 301/see ticker/160
Height: 5' 2"
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That is wonderful and I am so happy for you. Your hard work is really paying off. Let us know other changes as you find them. This is fun!
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10-14-2009, 09:19 AM
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Deb
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: NJ
Posts: 495
S/C/G: 257/240/150
Height: 5'5"
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What a wonderful feeling. Seeing change in ourselves is so inspiring! Congratulations to you for sticking at it, even when you were not seeing the changes you wanted...
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10-14-2009, 09:19 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 1,700
S/C/G: high285/resrart276/ticker/140
Height: 5'3"
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How awesome! Congrats.
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