Fashionably ME!

Apr 07, 2013

I love getting dressed up and putting together gorgeous outfits. The past year or so, I have had very little interest in clothes or getting dressed at all! Of all my clothes, I was able to get into about 15 or 20% of my wardrobe. And the clothes I could get into... they were not cute. I am so excited now that I have lost 68 pounds and I am able to get back into lots of clothes in my closet. I have a lot of older clothes, anywhere from size 24 to 16.  I am able to get into the 22s and some of the 20s even now.  Unfortunately, I gave away a lot of my clothes a little over the year ago. My husband's sons were coming to live with us and I had clothes in our main closet and also a closet full of clothes in the guest room.  I couldn't fit into a lot of them and at that point I had given up on really ever losing a substantial amount of weight.  Surgery seemed like an unrealistic option and I had put it on the backburner. 

I had a friend that had lapband surgery and had lost a good amount of weight.  I brought her over and she helped me clean out my closets and she left with a huge garbage back full of clothes plus some clothes on hangers and then I think I took two more to goodwill.  Most of the stuff I gave to her or Goodwill, I realized that I had worn them and loved them at one time but I probably wouldn't wear that much again even if I could.  Some of them I wore when I was in my early 20s (like my heart dress that I LOVED and wore all the friggin time) and it was time to grow up a bit and move on.  I kept other things though that I really loved and wanted to get back into.  So I have enough to wear now, I am in no way hurting for clothes.

So anyway, I tried on a lot of clothes tonight and most of them fit. Then I even put on my wedding dress... and it fit!! So I think I am back to around the weight when I got married. I can't remember exactly how much I weighed but it had to be around what I am now! I am 294 today and I think I met my husband when I was about 275 to 280.  I can't believe that I am so close to be smaller than he has ever seen me.  I was so excited to zip up that dress again. 

I was feeling a little depressed tonight (just the Sunday night blues, I suppose) and putting those clothes on made me feel great! It also gave me inspiration to exercise every day this week after I drop off my stepson. I'm ready to get back to my old fashionable self! ;-)

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