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Forget the goosebumps. Now, I'm literally tearing up.
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Dammit Robin!
You went and made me sniffle at work.
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And what a GREAT, FANTASTIC, indescribable feeling it is - to go from a size 32 - to a size 16. I'm fairly certain, most people can not relate.
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Heck, I'm not sure I can relate ~ and I've done it before! Well, 28 to a 16 in 1999-2000.
In a way it's not so much the size/number difference. In August 2008, when I started this journey:
- I was too fat to shop at Lane Bryant. The ONLY places I could buy clothes that sort of fit were Catherine's, Big Dog, and Modell's Sporting Goods (the men's big and tall section). 5X.
- I hadn't worn a pair of blue jeans since August 2004, when I busted my last pair of 28s. I never bought any in a 30 or 32 since I knew they would just look horrible and be uncomfortable.
- I hadn't put on a pair of dress shoes since January 2005 (and that last time about killed me, I couldn't walk the next day). All I EVER wore was tennis shoes or slippers. I wore ugly tennis shoes to work EVERY DAY in 2007 and half of 2008. Ugly polyester dress pants and tennis shoes.
- They had to special order a shirt for me when we had our office bowling party because the regular tshirt place only went to 3X. They got me a 5X and it was so tight I had to wear a sweatshirt over it. Our office manager was really annoyed since she had gone to the trouble and expense of getting me one. But it was obscenely tight. And I felt horrible. (Last night I wore it for a nightshirt and it HUNG TO MY KNEES and FLAPPED IN THE BREEZE.)
- Right after I began this journey I started organizing my old, small clothes to use as motivation and I found the last set of really nice lingerie I'd bought before I gained all this weight. I looked at how small it was (38DD, 7) and really couldn't believe I'd ever been able to fit into it and looked good. It was like a dream ~ a blur. Now, I look at my one pair of size 32 khakis and wonder how I ever fit into THEM! Again, it's like a blur!
- Last night when I was buying those 16s I tried on six Lane Bryant 14/16 blouses. I bought three of them. I didn't buy the other three because THEY WERE TOO BAGGY. They were too big!! They made me look larger than I am!! They were only about $8 each, but I opted not to spend the additional $16 because I want to look GOOD! Any other time, I would have bought them just because I could get them on my body and they were inexpensive. Now I realize, I deserve to look GREAT and that means buying clothes that FLATTER. If it doesn't look GREAT I don't buy it now!
Y'all have NO IDEA how much I wish I'd KNOWN THIS STUFF EARLIER. Maybe it would have motivated me to start earlier. Maybe I wouldn't have spent the last five years super morbidly obese.
And; I'm one pound away from being "obese" now.
Way to go DCHound. Happy, HAPPY birthday indeed! 
