Things you'll do when thin(ner)..........

[fatbutnot4eva]

Good thread, many of the things above esp thos etable and bench things !!!

Hopefully my boobs will go below a G cup (please god) and I wont have my a cup friend talking about them 24/7 or even wanting to feel them.

Not having to laugh insults off.

wearing normal clothes and not just buying whatever they have in a size 24. even if its horrendous hey it fits !!!

i go to the gym but i feel i am the fatest cant wait to buy normal gym clothes and blend in.

sit closer to my steering wheel

sit on a chair esp a plastic one without my bum going through each side gap.

sit on a chlds chair at parents eveneng without holding half your weight up.

having a pain that is not weight related (maybe only once)

going out with friends and not being the biggest

gong out and worried you are one that has to sit in the back of the car with 2 others and if so you hope they are thin.

personal thgings - go to college i am almost 34 i migt be an adult learener but least i wount be overweight too.

have more photos taken

wear a swimming costume on a beach

help out at my kids school.

walk more

sorry goiong on but everything that i think i have not done i want to do.

 

[lotsabeefy]

It would probably be quicker to list the things i won't do when i'm thinner but here we go.

1. Be happy and really not give a stuff about peoples reactions to me when i walk in a room instead of just pretending and dying inside.

2. Not looking at chairs and wondering if i will be able to wedge myself in.

3. Knowing my children are confident to be seen with me, and dont have to defend me to thier peers.

4. Seeing my jaw

5. Seeing my feet (when stood up)

6. Driving a sporty little number instead of my petrol guzzling planet killing 4x4

My list is endless and the priorities changes daily but the one that stays at the top of the list always is that when the weight is gone i have as good a chance as everyone else of living a happy life with my children and one day with my childrens, children.
Excellent thread thankyou

 

[Mark01/05/2009]

Threads like this make me appreciate how your life changes post op - I promise you all, you will all get there and you will all have the things you have all said you wanted and more its a tough post op journey, but threads like this make me realise just how worthwhile it is xxx

 

[fatbutnot4eva]

Mark OMG 10 stone 4lb loss, that is just beyond dreams.


When I was at Salford Royal waiting to see Mr Ammori for the first time I was in the waiting room with lots of other people and a youngish bloke walked in to me he looked like he was either from newquay beach or australia, he was bronze with shoulder length blonde hair, he was with what looked like his mum who was a little overweight but not obese but I though or isnt that nice he has come with her. Well then he started to talk about what he was like a year before, he had lost 12 stone !!! I and everyone in the room was shocked, he had no lose skin and believe me you knew as he also had a tiny vest on. He swore by body butter and said he put it on every morning and night he joked esp on his bum.
You would never in a million zillion years have known he had ever been anything other than what he was that day. He was confident and sure of him self but not in any way big headed.
Not sure why I am telling you but he had left his obese life behind it was his history and he was new and happy and it was amazing it made me think yes its possible.
x

 

[Meggie]

It's amazing what we all want to do, all of it would seem normal to most people (apart from Meggies with the daredevil dreams).

I want to walk into any clothes shop without thinking the assistants are thinkings ''dream on girl''...

I want to swim with my girls...

I want to RUN!

I'd love a bike and to be able to go cycling with my girls and OH...

I want to walk into a shop/pub/restaurant and not spend a minute or two mentally calculating the route i will take so as not to have to ask people to move or get stuck...

I want to be able to zip my ankle boots up without huffing and puffing and cocking my foot up a few steps up the stairs before i go out.....

I wanna wear tights, i hate them, but in the winter and when you reach a certain age i think you need something on your legs...

Last but not least, i wanna fly and not have the extender belt but most of all........... i wanna pull that tray down and eat my dinner without it being at an angle and me cakking meself in case i spill something.

That will do for now

Haha I do have more normal aspirations than those I promise!! Think I wasn't really thinking realistically at 3 this morning!!

One of my big things is to be able to shop at Topshop and Miss Selfridge!! I've never been able to before!!!

 

[Katastrophe]

Oh i forgot one...

White Water Rafting - ALWAYS wanted to do that!

Isnt it weird how we ALL want to be able to get on a plane and have the tray down with no seat belt extender... Cos when we get on those planes and have to squeeze in WHY are we the only ones on the damn aeroplane

 

[Meggie]

Oh i forgot one...

White Water Rafting - ALWAYS wanted to do that!

Isnt it weird how we ALL want to be able to get on a plane and have the tray down with no seat belt extender... Cos when we get on those planes and have to squeeze in WHY are we the only ones on the damn aeroplane

I'll do that with you!! I did actually have a voucher to do it before but was 16 stone and had to be 15 stone. Obviously in retrospect I wish I'd gotten my arse in gear and lost the weight. Ah well!!

Based on the things I aspire to do this year I won't make it to the end of the year!!

 

[lamornamiss]

Mine are easy

Being able to out run my 6 year old when he has done something naughty (the new thing is to burn paper on the gas fire I want to be slim when those firemen turn up )

To go on rides at Alton towers (the kids say I'm too scared...... yeah right scared of not fitting in the seat and doing the walk of shame)

 

[Katastrophe]

I'll do that with you!! I did actually have a voucher to do it before but was 16 stone and had to be 15 stone. Obviously in retrospect I wish I'd gotten my arse in gear and lost the weight. Ah well!!

Based on the things I aspire to do this year I won't make it to the end of the year!!

Ahh but wouldn't it be so much better to have "Died while being a daredevil skydiver" on your gravestone instead of "heart disease"

I can remember being 13st and asking the people at the riding stables if i was too heavy to get on the horse.... Oh how stupid i was LOL

 

[Roch]

1. To walk into a room and just mingle and not be noticed as i am the biggest person they have ever seen
2. To regain my life, my self confidence and my self worth
3. To get a job where i am not hiding away from the world
4. To go to the doctors and for once to be told my condition is not caused by my obesity.
5. To start socialising and go out on dates and to find a partner to build a life with and who loves me for me and not for what i can do for them
6. To take my son to Disney land, although he is nearly 18 now lol as could never do that when i was so fat
7.To wake up in the morning and look forward to each each day and what it brings.
8.To run the marathon and go scuba diving, but will settle for a 10 kg run first
9.To be able to go to Primark and buy an whole outfit for under £20 and look fab

And finally :

10. Once have had all my plastics done, and i am going to need a lot lol and def a boob job i want to go away on holiday, wear a bikini and tiny sarong and sunbathe topless on a gorgeous beach. I know this sounds really tarty but i have been fat since i was 4 or 5, i missed out on wearing shorts, mini skirts and bikini`s so when i have finished my journey and have my body that i have paid for with many thousand hours of work then i am going to do take this fab holiday.

 

[angelpie]

I want to do a parachute jump for charity. lol xx

 

[Meggie]

There seem to be quite a few people who do! Maybe we should all do it at the same time, end of the summer maybe........depends on our weights by then I guess!!!

 

[tiarasandtantrums]

I can agree with all of the above!

A few years ago I lost a lot of weight (got down to 8 stones) and in that time I took up parachuting, wing walking and also did a hot air ballon flight. They were all amazing things to do and I would dearly love to be healthy and light enough to do them again.

One of the most embarrassing things that happened to me at this size was when I went to a funeral and broke the chair in the middle of the service. I was totally mortified. So much so that I'm actually having a little cry right now at the memory.

xx

 

[Lisa J]

I moved to the coast over a year ago and since my bypass in may have lost nearly 8 stone so i am really looking forward to the summer where i can walk along the beach without people looking and laughing at me! Im also going to treat myself to a kayak....cant wait, how great it'll be to go out on the sea without the worry in the back of my head thinking...how am i going to get out of this thing!!!!!

 

[kathleen1960]

take my grandson on the tea cups ride on the end of brighton pier

 

[Dawn36]

I want all the usual things, to be free to choose clothes from any shop, not too feel I am being judged by my size. My partners keeps taking photos of me because he just wants a pic or two of his partner. Of course I make him delete them! So, when I reach goal, I want a professional photoshoot of the two of us. A beautiful picure I can hang on the wall and be proud of.

 

[Dawn36]

I can agree with all of the above!

A few years ago I lost a lot of weight (got down to 8 stones) and in that time I took up parachuting, wing walking and also did a hot air ballon flight. They were all amazing things to do and I would dearly love to be healthy and light enough to do them again.

One of the most embarrassing things that happened to me at this size was when I went to a funeral and broke the chair in the middle of the service. I was totally mortified. So much so that I'm actually having a little cry right now at the memory.

xx

oh please dont cry, although I can understand how upsetting that must have been. Sending you l-o-a-d-s of hugs(((((((()))))))))

 

[phatmomma]

I wanna shave my legs without huffing n puffing.....

And if i can cut the grass too thats gonna be a bonus

 

[tiarasandtantrums]

oh please dont cry, although I can understand how upsetting that must have been. Sending you l-o-a-d-s of hugs(((((((()))))))))

Thank you Dawn. I was just having a silly moment. xxx

 

[Glenville]

I would love to be able to go ski-ing again. The last time I went must be 20 years ago and was so unfit I was knackered after picking myself up after falling the first half a dozen times. I would love to ski in the USA as I have only ever been to Europe. I just hope I will still have some mates still fit enough to go with...