Saturday July 18th 2009 was my 1 year mark.

Almost 80 pounds lost in 1 year (79.5 to be exact)!!

Saturday was a really really special day for me.

There was a local carnival that comes to town each year and last year my husband son and I went, but I could not ride most of the rides with my hubby and son b/c of my size.

The two rides I did go on went like this:

Farris wheel: the guy in charge of sorting folks to balance the seats...

Well, today I had my first botox treatment!!! I am so excited to see how the results look after a few days. I have been wanting botox on my wrinkled squeenched up angry looking forhead for..well forever! So my LAP-BAND® surgeons office has lipo and botox on the other half of the practice and it was awesome to get it done. It did not hurt at all (heck the fills hurt worse) and the doc and nurse were awesome. I could immediately see a smoothing effect on the horizontal lines on my forhead and right...

As our Donut Day challenge winds down we have a new challenge!

So I have to post about my day today. The significance of the waxing is more than, just removing hair.

There are so many things that I did not not do before (when I was close to 300lbs) because either I would be soo self conscious or I was scared I would break the chair/massage table or whatever. Plus you add onto the fact that i was scared to death any waxer person would charge me double because of my size and amount of wax i would have taken up..The whole thing made me ill. So I...

I was thinking about the things I do now, that I would not do when I was really heavy. In the past I avoided soo many things b/c of my weight.

1. Go to the doctor more for care.
2. I get my legs waxed!
3. I bought capris (I don't have skinny ankles but I look a lot better!)
4. Sit with my legs crossed.
5. Go to the movies more b/c I can fit into the seats.
6. Ask for a booth instead of a table at restaurants.
7. Choose to sit on bar stools even if there are booths and tables.
8. Wear a coat now.

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