For all of you:

-- I don't grunt when I try to get out of the car;
-- I don't grunt when I try to get out of the tub;
-- I dont' grunt when I try to get up from the couch;
-- I don't grunt when I......well, you get the point!!!
-- I don't have to sweep the crumbs off the bed before I go to sleep;
-- I didn't have a panic attack when my hubby announced we were going to dinner with some colleagues of his next weekend, because although I'm still overweight I am DEFINITELY no longer embarrassed by my weight.

YEAH PAULA!!!!!

I'm resurrecting this

I just realized that I can now wear my wedding ring on my middle finger.

Being able to wear the summer clothes from last year (that was too tight)...and have them too loose!!

lol!- my toe ring keeps falling off.....

Shopping, shopping and more shopping!

Being able to wear last years "tight" summer clothes

Having your raggedy old over-alls actually be baggy now when you used to wear them to hide the weight!

Did I mention shopping for new clothes?

Well dang. I want to go shopping for new clothes and have size 8 jeans! (I'm currently wearing loose/baggy 10's). But the time I got the guts to try on clothes...neither 8's nor 10's fit

The seatbelt is no longer digging into my belly!!!

I can fit thru turnstyles and into lawn furniture with turning to the side or worrying that I am gonna break those cheapo plastic chairs!! (my butt fits in them now too!)


OOOOOO BIG ONE!!! I can swing at the park with the kids w/o the swing chains digging into my legs and bruising them! The kids LOVED that I swing at the same time as them now!

I love being able to sit in my office chair and not touch either of the arms!

I'm amazed that I can buy clothes that fit and 6 weeks later need new clothes!

I absolutely love the fact that my dh can't keep his hands off me! (not that he couldn't before, but it just SEEMS like its more now, Big Bonus)

I have to admit that I love all the attention I get from co-workers about their amazement with my WL. However, it is still uncomfortable for me to accept their compliments.

Oh, Lori, I hear you on the compliments thing! It also weirds me out when people don't recognize me.

I just discovered that if I'm sitting, leaning back with my knees bent, there's always a gap between my thighs

I want that gap between my thighs!!!! That's one thing I'm hoping I can look forward to!!

^---Being able to keep up with those hands

The strange thing about the weight loss is friend's husband's hitting on me....now that is a strange new dilemma!

(Just thought I should put a disclaimer in that, it is nothing major and I always discuss it with my friends and they seem to just laugh it off. It seems their husbands are always that way it's just that now I'm fair game? Isn't that weird?)