Mary, as you probably already have found out...it takes some time for your brain to catch up and accept your new look in the mirror after losing tons of weight....remember that you were beautiful before, and you're beautiful now! As so many have already said, it is amazing how good TTR can make you feel, if you let yourself believe it! I think you're going to have a GREAT time this year! Hopefully we can meet you guys at some point. Jess
We're there May 1-5 and are psychotically outgoing Leo's so we'll say hi and hang out with everyone As long as I'm fairly sure I won't get sick, we plan to do a Boobs Cruise if there is one that isn't on our anniversary. If you do one before we get there, you guys will have to be the ones introducing US to everyone And I'm in the fitness industry but the title of my ever in progress book is "Never Been Skinny" because I'm just that - I may get buff but I always have a butt and thighs and I have fairly bad body dysmorphia (where I look in the mirror and see what I used to look like or what think I look like versus what I actually look like). Everyone's got issues, some people are just better, or worse, at hiding them! Like my husband told me last summer and it's actually helped me with some unrelated stuff, "Sometimes you just gotta say 'Fuck it!'" So true, Romeo! So true!
Shitty people lead shitty lives. Mary sounds like just the kind of person Stacia would love to hang out with, strong, self-confident, like that. Tony, you and I can stay in the background like the Secret Service.
OMG! I SO want to see this!! I'll even bring you guys the sunglasses if you promise to do the stance. Can you wear the curly wire ear buds too???
Our first trip we felt similar too but it just takes a bit to unwind. This will be our 9th trip and we UNWIND more every trip. You really have to live the nobody knows you line for yourself. It really is what you make it. So have fun!!!!!!
Our first trip last year I was the one with the tankini covering everything... This year I refuse to even pack it! Never would I have thought that I would be buying a bikini let alone the 4 I bought . They have strings holding them together and everything. Yes I some meat on me But I am proud of the 30 lbs I have worked at losing .... Yes I have had 3 kids and the war scars aka stretch marks to prove it .... But it will all be hanging out this year ... And by this year I mean in one week baby!!!!!!
Great job and good for you. Flaunt what you got and enjoy yourself. Doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. Words of advise that I often have to remember myself. Its the Borat suit on your partner in crime that I'm afraid of.
I feel ya as well. At size 16, I always wear the little skirt bottoms...last time I got crap for them and was told I should be wearing less. This year I'm trying so hard to not bring them (have like 8 other bottoms to make up for it, but the skirt one isn't packed yet). I'm deathly self-conscious out here, but you have to let it melt away there...because in reality...no one cares what size you are. They all just want to have fun. That being said - you will always get a small group or two of people that will not be as nice as others. All I can say to that is - fuck em. The awesome people FAR outweigh the shitty ones at TTR!
