new "before" pic along with current one...
i found my original "before" photo (here on the left.) i had david take this pic the week before surgery when i was at my heaviest (around 300 pounds.) i made sure to look extra "sad" for the comic effect.
the funny thing was that i wasn't all that sad at my heaviest. it was no GD picnic, let me tell ya, but i wasn't completely miserable. i had a good job, good friends, a good boyfriend. good, good, good.
i want to make that point because some of the emails i got in response to the news story sort of assumed i was looking for some "magic bullet" to fix my life, or that i thought being thin would cure all my woes.
i never once said, "when i get this surgery and get skinny, my life is gonna be perfect!"
anyways, there's my best "before" pic and one i snapped this weekend at my mom's. i rarely take full length pics, so i thought it would be interesting to include.
i actually don't hate this current full-length photo.
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i started at 300
i got down to 150
i am now around 220
you do the math!!!!!
but monica robins said the same thing. she thinks that the wieght i am at now is probably what my body naturally sort of gravitates to, give or take a few pounds.
i'm currently a size 18 and want to get back into a 16. but i'm happy with where i am now.
Hell, Hoss was 400 lbs. He never expected to get to 200 lbs. I think he was that weight at birth! LOL. He told me right before surgery, that he would know when he was at his optimal weight.."Babe, when I can wear my Beatle Boots again and do the splits while singing...I Feel Good...by James Brown....I will be normal again!" I just looked at him, bent over the side rail on the bed, and kissed him and said..."Honey...define Normal and when were you Normal!" LOL
Sue