February is over, and I’m happy to report that I lost 15.2 pounds in the first two months of 2012. I would have liked it to have been more, but when you’re losing weight, the tendency is to ALWAYS want it to have been more than whatever it actually was for any given period of time! I’m working hard and have a goal of reaching the major milestone of the 100 pounds lost mark sometime in May and feel great about my progress towards that goal.
Let me share another milestone...
As long as I can ever remember, I’ve always had to purchase my clothes from exclusively “plus-sized” stores. Even as a 12-year-old, my mom was buying my clothes from a shop back home in Michigan
A couple of weeks ago, I got the wild idea to try ordering a pair of jeans from Old Navy. While they don’t carry larger sizes in their stores, they do have their own plus-sized line available through their website. The avid shopper I am, I got carried away and ordered not just the pair of jeans, but also a denim skirt as well, fully believing that they would arrive and not even be close to fitting, and I would have to put them away and try them on again after I lose a lot more weight. To my great surprise, the jeans fit beautifully, and after the few pounds I’ve lost since they arrived, they’re starting to feel a bit loose in the waist already! The skirt though…WAY TOO BIG!!! I’ve actually had to send it back to exchange it for a smaller size!
Now, being excited that a skirt is too big may seem silly to most people, but for me, it felt like a huge victory! Just to be able to shop at a “regular” store (albeit through their plus-sized line), is something I’ve never been able to do before, and feels ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL! I can’t wait to make it out of the plus-sizes altogether so that I can walk into any store I want to shop in, and the best thing is, I know that day is coming!
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