Dropping Sizes left & right!!

Dec 04, 2010

It's been some time since I've posted.
It's been the same routine with family and eating, thankfully! I'm down to 170!!! WHOO!!!

I finally went to the second hand clothing store that I had kept noticing and I LOVE IT!!! It's set up like an exclusive boutique! So nice and lovely smelling and BEAUTIFUL clothes! I am going to purchase my faux fur coat from there rather then the mall store! It's half the price of mall store! It's a pretty dark grey. I think it'll look lovely with my dress for the ball.

When I went in yesterday I purchased a jacket, a henley shirt and the lovely shirt I'm wearing in the photos. I LOVE this shirt. It's actually a sleeveless with a long sleeve faux fur cuffed shrug. LOVE it. Love the color, love the fit and love the SIZE, wait for it...................................
MEDIUM

WHAT?!?!?! Yep. I'm in a MEDIUM!!! Oh my heck! I have not worn a medium since BEFORE having my first child. I have to say, when I saw the photos of how it showed off my boobies I loved it even more!! WOOT!

So, here it is.....Me wearing a MEDIUM.......DESIGNER shirt no less. WOOT! hehe


I have FINALLY arrived! I have come closer to accepting that I'm no longer a 280 pound woman. I'm blown away looking at these photos and realizing I'm looking at ME....ME!?!?! It's mind blowing.

When food temptations strike, I just pull out this photo and look at it. THIS, FEELING like this and finally being HAPPY with my body is worth more then any food that made me fat. This is WHY I did surgery. To be at peace and happy with myself and my life. To be healthy and comfortable in my own skin.

When I started this journey I was doing this to be a good example to my kids and to be more attractive for my husband (even though he's ALWAYS told me I was hot and turned him on no matter what my size! hehe), and to be healthy. Now, as I've come this far and nearly to goal (only about 30 more pounds to reach my surgeon's suggested weight and another 50 to reach my personal goal), I am doing this for me. For myself and my life. The added benefits is that I'm a good healthy example to my kids and I feel sexy for my husband and LOVE sitting on his lap.

It truely is the little things in life that make it worth living. A lovely shirt set bought in a second hand store is worth a world filled with designer expensive clothes when YOU are happy with you. I've reached an end with one journey. I am home in my skin. It's been a LONG time coming and I can't say how wonderful it feels to have that peace and just SMILE knowing that it was worth swearing off foods that made me fat, a lazy life style that contributed to my poor health.

My mom suggested that I put an ad out to be a dog walker since I could do that while my husband is at work and while the kids are in school. What a wonderful thing for me to do! Get my exercise in and spend time with animals I LOVE! I'm totally going to do it! Put an ad out there and a few flyers around and see what happens.

Love yourself. Treat yourself with love and respect and others will too! Find peace within yourself. It's worth the journey! 

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