Thanks ladies!! I created the post from my phone so I couldn't type as much as I usually do.
It was so surreal, I knew you'd all understand better than anyone. It was like watching my husband walk towards me with another person that I didn't recognize (and why was SHE holding his hand??!?!). And then when I realized it was me, it was just a huge relief. I mean, I have so far to go still but I am like 2/3rds of the way there and I finally saw some progress today. I don't know if it's because we had warm enough weather to not wear coats or what (and yesterday at this time we had high winds and a foot of snow coming down!).
And...I never look at my reflection in windows or otherwise as I don't want to see myself. I have no idea why I even looked at "that lady" in the window, it must have been a sign from above to show my progress.