WOW! :smoking: :flame: :love: :yes: :love: :yes: You will be as gorgeous at your wedding, one month and 5 days before my daughter's, as she will!! OH YEAH! ;)

So beautiful! Very nice!

gorgeous is right!!! you look amazing :D love the new avatar too!!

Amanda, I've been following your journey and you've done so wonderful. You are beautiful! The dress is pretty as well. Glad it went good:).

Love the patterned dress! You look fab!!!!!

You look wonderful in that dress, it shows off your waist!

Get over your insecurities, you idiot. A bit late but I wanted to chime in :D

I also need my brain to catch up with my eyes and my senses. I still have a sense of myself when I weighed 289. Especially when it comes to chairs the couch or getitng in and out of the car in a parking lot. Occasionally, I think Matt parks to close and will say something like, "What you think I don't need room to get out"? And he'll say "Get over yourself, you idiot". When I try and get out, lo and behold, not only can I get out of the car, I usually have room to spare, I'm just so USE to needing so much more room, yanno?

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Did I scroll through page 2 and see the updates? No, DOH! But, I absolutely LOVE the patterned dress. It's so very flattering and sexy without the in your face sexy that borders on whiskey tango, yanno? You look fabulous and CONGRATS!! on the successful party dinner.

That dress is gorgeous and you look absolutely stunning in it!

And those are NOT BIG CALVES, doofus.

The pictures of you in the new dress are great.

I am so pleased to see your progress- it makes me so happy for you! Congrats!

You guys are all so seriously sweet. I felt pretty good, I have to say, even if I am crazy about my calves being big (note - all of those pictures are taken from the FRONT, and the calves are huge from the BACK).

Off to go eat my surprisingly on-plan valentines treat (a graham cracker crust tart shell filled with sugar free chocolate pudding, ff cool whip, and raspberries...)

Wow! I love the patterned dress, I think it flatters you more than the black one did. It accentuates your waist much more. And you KNOW it's a victory when you can pull off patterns (which tend to make people look bigger) while still looking totally great! :)

:cp: You hottie you :hot:

You look FANTASTIC! I'm glad you had such a lovely time :)

I love the second dress. And what a perfect reason to not wear the first - too big!

Your party story is great. I like hearing that you had a fun time as well as a healthy time. Comparing workout regimes with a marathon runner! Talk about coming full circle! :)

I'm so glad I asked! You look so wonderful. You deserve to be quite proud of yourself for all your restraint at the party.