Well, I did it!
We had out family pictures yesterday and it went well! I only had one brief moment of worrying how the picture would come out when the photographer said to lift my chin - I would always lower it to hide as much of my double chins as possible. We had some good pictures and some not so good, but none because I thought I looked too fat and wanted to cry. The weird thing is that I didn't look like me, to me, although everyone else said I did. I'm just not used to how the new me really looks to others. The other day, my husband brought a jacket to me that wasn't mine. I told him the jacket wouldn't fit, as I wasn't a size XL yet. The women I was sitting with said, "what do you mean you're not an XL yet?" It was not as loose as I prefer, but the jacket fit! My perceptions of my size and how I look are still catching up with reality.