Re: Important milestones to share

[Guest guest]

, you're doing wonderful! Boy, can I identify with you. We have

those same kind of seats in my daughter's auditorium. I was wedged into

one of the smaller ones last Spring when I went to her play. My legs went

totally numb after a while suffering from pain. When I looked in the

mirror when I got home I had actually cut and bruised my thighs. Everyone

stood up for a standing ovation. By the time I got up, they were back

down. After hearing your story, I'm anxious to go back and try again this

year! Take care and HAPPY almost 40th!!! ;-)

--- mibrica wrote:

> Hi all!

>

> I haven't posted much at all lately, but I read my digests almost every

> day. I'm another slow loser, so I thought it was important to notice

> the positive things that are happening that don't involve the scale:

>

> Last Friday, our school had Field Day. As a teacher's assistant, that

> meant an entire morning on my feet supervising the kids. Before

> surgery, that would have laid me so low that I would have spent the rest

> of the day walking with my cane and popping muscle relaxers... When I

> got off work, I went home and exercised with my walking tape. After

> lunch I did some cleaning and still had the energy to entertain a house

> full of 15 years olds (son's birthday...) that evening!

>

> I'm almost to the point where I don't have to second guess fitting in a

> restaurant booth. A couple more positive experiences and I'll be over

> that... Last night, I went to see my son perform in a production of

> " Grease " in a school auditorium. It has very strange seats, in that

> every other row is wider than the other. When I saw my 10 year old

> daughter in " The Wizard of Oz " at the same school in March (pre

> surgery), I barely squeezed into the wider seats and " dripped " over the

> edges. Last night, I had room to move around in those wider seats and

> even sat briefly in the narrower ones (which were completely out of the

> question before) with ease!

>

> So good luck and best wishes to everyone, no matter where you are on the

> journey,

>

> from NE Philly, age 39 (for only another 2 weeks or so -

> eeeeeeek!)

> Open DS 6/27/01 - Dr. Pomp/Mt. Sinai/NYC - BMI 63

> 17 1/2 weeks out, 66 pounds down

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