Proud Moment! July 1, 2008

Wow, It’s truly amazing how my life has changed in just 8 1/2 months, I can hardly believe it.  Not only have I succeeded in losing all this weight, but now my success will be immortalised of sorts because Best Health Magazine has contacted me and is officially going to do a story on me and my weight loss success story!

If someone would have told me a year ago that I would lose 73 pounds and that a Health Magazine would be doing a story on me, I would have thought they were crazy!  But here I am, sharing my success story with thousands of people, and maybe even inspire people to do the same.  This is a very proud moment in my life.  I was already beaming with pride at my accomplishments so far, but now, to have my success in print, well that is just the icing on the cake…Low calorie cake of course! Ha Ha Ha!

I went shopping yesterday, and once again I was in shock!  I tried on a bunch of different clothes, and I still have a hard time believing that I am such a smaller size, that I always take a size bigger in the dressing room with me.  Well not only am I officially a size 10 now, but I tried on a skirt at Tommy Hilfiger and the size 10 was actually TOO BIG!  I was completely floored by this!  Not only am i now 8 dress sizes smaller than I was 8 1/2 months ago, but now I would have required a size 8!  I haven’t been a size 8 since High School.

Yesterday was also a big moment for me, I actually put on a bathing suit in public and went swimming!!  I haven’t put on a bathing suit in front of people (other than my best friend a month ago) in about 15 years let alone go swimming!  I have been embarassed about my size for so long, that i didn’t even own a bathing suit for 15 years because i refused to show myself in public looking the way I did.  It was still difficult for me to be so exposed yesterday, but I just let it go and just enjoyed myself and just enjoyed the moment.

So this week is an extremely proud week for me and I look forward to many more to come!