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A few NSVs and a Personal Victory

Posted grneyedmustang on April 19th, 2009 | Filed under South Beach Diet, clothing, dieting, plateau, relationships

So I had a few NSV’s and other personal victories this weekend.

I know this guy named Brandon through a friend of a friend, and apparently he’s interested in me (We’ll get to that topic in a few). So Brandon and I decide to set up a date to go to the park on Saturday. For some reason, I im in this mode where I want to wear long, flowy springtime dresses. Let me explain why this is unlike me. I consider myself a reformed tomboy, so I don’t wear dresses very often. I wore a dress for Easter, which is when Brandon made it known that he was interested in me (I met him on New Year’s Eve), so maybe that has something to do with why all of a sudden I want to wear dresses. Anyway, I go shopping on Friday evening, because I want to look super jazzy for my date. I initially try on three dresses at TJMaxx; none of them really catch my eye, but in taking one of them off I realize the dress is a SIZE 12.

Now I know that I’m nowhere near close to a TRUE size 12, but that speaks volumes to me in and of itself. I can’t tell you the last time I wore something that was less than a size 14! Yaaaaaay me! I actually didn’t get that dress, because I didn’t feel like it was very flattering, but the fact that I got into it without issue had my mouth on the floor.

So I go to Marshalls and go to the “Women’s World” section, which I realize I am slowly becoming too small for. Right now, I think I’m at that funny gray area where I’m too big to be completely “normal” sized but too small to be “plus” size. Anyway, I’m looking at the dresses there, and I grab this teal dress which speaks to me (I just bought some cute teal accessories that I think the dress would look great with). I can’t find the size label in the dress, but the price is right and it looks like it may fit (but it looks a little small), so I think whatever and go try the dress on. I try the dress on and it looks GREAT, and it was $19.99, so I go with it.

Well, today, I’m getting ready to wash clothes, and I find the label in the dress. The dress is a MEDIUM. This was the second time this weekend my mouth hit the floor. I don’t have ANYTHING in my entire wardrobe that is a size medium. And how this dress ended up in the “Women’s World” section of Marshalls is beyond me. That was my second little NSV for this weekend.

The third victory for the weekend is that I stepped on the scale this morning and it said 231! WOW. I am almost at the place where I’m going to bypass the weight that I hit the last time I was dieting - my lowest weight then was 228. I’m hoping this also means that the plateau has officially been broken. I don’t know if it was all that junk I ate last weekend or what, but I’ll take it any way I can get it.

And victory number four - not weight related - was that I ACTUALLY HAD A DATE. I had such a wonderful time on the date; he seems really nice. We went to a park and had a little picnic, with wine and strawberries. Later, we went to our friends house and just sat around and talked. I’m hearing from our group of friends that he really likes me. He’s taller than me which is always good…he’s 6′ 4″. He’s a “former big guy” himself so he understands what I’m dealing with right now with this weight loss thing. He’s actually a little bit (well, a lotta bit) younger than me, though; he’s 24! He doesn’t act 24 though - and he acutally has his own place, his own car, and a job; so right now, he’s actually doing better than some of the older guys I’ve dated. He’s very free with the compliments (he told me many times how nice I looked yesterday) and I’m totally loving that.

I don’t want to get my hopes up too much, but so far, I really like him.

Here’s to a GREAT weekend!