Yeah no kidding about that. And I won't miss the bras with the "padded" shoulder straps either.

Jeannie

I won't miss:

That peculiar gait caused by obesity walking.
Wishing my bathtub were bigger so more water would fit.
My feet getting ever wider and my arches ever falling.
Hoping people will like me for who I am and not pre-judge me by my size.
Feeling isolated, vulnerable and defensive in the company of thin people.
The resignation and fear that I will never be thin again.

--Being called a 'big girl'

Yes, I am 5'10, but still that's not what a girl wants to be known as!

I won't miss the following:
* Having to go # 2 all the time (sorry didn't know a better way to put it )
* Sucking my gut in to button my jeans.
* Bad headaches from eating to much carbs and sugar.
* Allways being out of shape.
* Feeling tired all the time and feeling depressed.
* Anxiety.
* With how good this diet is I won't miss going on diets that fail all the time.

In reading other responses I would like to add acid reflux too. I am close to the big 40 this year and just recently before my diet I would get acid reflux every night. I haven't had it or heartburn since I started atkins.

I feel your pain. I too am 5"10" and people have refer to me as a "big ole girl" many, many times. Hang in there. We will show them what we can do.

excellent thread! Congratulations to you all!
The thing I don't miss: Crashing so hard after a carb laden meal I couldn't wake up, even to look after my 2 kids. I am eternally gratefull for being awake!
Also, having feeling in my hands and feet again.

- I definitely will not miss getting kicked off roller-coasters (only happened once...but trust me, once is enough).

- contemplating wearing a shirt to the pool/beach or not. If i wear a shirt, I'm the fat guy who wears a shirt to the beach lol If I don't, I'm just the fat guy!

- feeling uncomfortable at the gym

yeah, I hate seeing people that I went to school with or used to work with. I just reconnected with one of my best friends from high school, but only thru emails. I want to go see him and keep saying 'soon, soon' but really, I'm embarassed to see him at this size. I was slim all thru high school (into long distance running, etc) until I got pregnant with my first son (at 17). Then, I never looked back but will be getting there sometime soon!! I didn't even go to my 10-year high school reunion because I didn't want to be seen.

I wont miss:
heartburn
asthma (already noticed a difference)
painful feet
restless nights

things I already don't miss:

hobbling around in the am because my feet hurt
plus size catalogs
thighs rubbing together
my stomach hitting the bottom of the steering wheel
back pain, knee pain

This is an AMAZING thread. Thank to everyone who has shared. Strange enough it segways into my recent journal entry and thoughts about a body wrap treatment I just did where I had to get totally naked in front of 10 other people and let someone rub creams and such all over me.

What I won't miss:
- Not doing the exciting things I want to like go out clubbing, scuba diving, horse back riding, belly dancing, etc because I either exceed the weight limit, can't fit into the gear, or am just too embarassed by the "looks" I get.
- Those damn pants rubbing away!
- Going through expensive sneakers like they were nothing because my weight breaks them down.
- The pre-judgment people who look at me dish out
- Hiding the fact that I am trying to lose weight
- Being able to work out and not have people assume that it is to lose weight, or that it is futile!
- Having to wear ugly clothes and wishing I could wear beautiful ones
- Hiding my true self. My ambitions, dreams, desires, because I am afraid.
- Seeing people whispering and thinking they are talking about me
- Pretending that I don't care about my weight and that I love myself as I am
- Thinking my BF will leave me because I am not sexy enough
- Not getting jobs because of what I look like
- Weird rashes and stuff from folds and rolls
- Being the one at a party who is ignored
- Being told that I could be so pretty if...
- Ugly undergarments

I love this thread it really made me laugh and confirms I'm not alone.

What I won't miss:
My thighs clapping when I go up the stairs
My underware going up my ass
Sore feet

LOL! This thread has had some cute answers!

As for me, I definitely won't miss:

*jiggling when I walk
*handfuls of squishy fat
*"fat" and "thin" days and clothes
*hearing "You look fine, what fat are you talking about?" when I don't fit into jeans I could wear last year (which were the jeans I had to get when I couldn't fit into the jeans I could wear the PREVIOUS year!) and just because I'm not a size XXL

I may not have started "big" but I was certainly puffy!

I don't miss, (already) the GUILT for not doing anything about it.(the weight that is)..and the GUILTfor eating things that we are allowed on this WOE. I love pork crackling and chicken skin ...especially when its really crisp, and cheese and olive oil dressing on salad, and I've spent the last 10 years or so feeling really NAUGHTY for having them. Also like many others,

the Acid reflux dissapeared on the very first day of this WOE...that was most unpleasant.
Won't miss sitting on the beach whilst everyone else has a swim.
Won't miss shopping in the PLUS size clothes shops.

But mainly sooooo glad to be rid of the guilt.