100 lb. Club - Look up the definition of "surreal" in the dictionary...

...and you will see a photo of DC Hound squeezing her (less) fat a$$ into a pair of SIZE 12 CORDS.

OMG.

I mean, they don't fit. They don't look good. They don't, like, zip. Yet. But I got my big butt into them, pulled them all the way up, and I can see where they are going to fit in a couple months.

OMG.

I haven't fit into a size 12 since, I don't know. 4th grade? 5th grade?? (30 years ago.)

I was a size 32 (too fat for Lane Bryant) 14 months ago.

Wow.

SURREAL!!!!

:high: That is great! Congrats on your well deserved success! Keep up the great work, you will be in onederland soon enough! :hug:

DCHound, you are so funny -- and such an inspiration!! Well done to you!! Those size 12s better start looking for a place to run and hide, 'coz you are closing in on 'em!!! :carrot: :carrot: :carrot:

I must be an emotional wreck today (been watching too many shows on discovery health lately I suppose), but your post almost made me tear up. I hope I (almost) fit into a size 12 in 14 months! YOU ROCK.

Love it.

you are hilarious, and I'm so proud of you! way to go!

Awesome!!! Today I fit my badonkadonk (much more of a tank butt now hehehe!!) into size 10s today! I'm hoping I can zip them and have them be flattering by the end of February :D

So, so, so awesome!

You RAWK!!!!!!!!!

WOOHOOOOOOO DC! You Rock!!! :cheer:

That reminds me to pull out the size 16s I've had in the back of my closet. ;)

You so freakin rock!!!!! It's the single digits for you SOON my friend!!!!

That's awesome. You are very funny as well -- I am glad I ran into this thread.

Sweet! You are awesome! An inspiration to so many, including me! YOU ROCK!

That is just UBER Fantastic!! You are such a skinny inspiration!!!

Well done my dear! Well done! :hug:

:smug:I love what you decided to do with your life.:smug:

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I was just about to hit the submit button, but suddenly I remembered those clothing NSV's, which if you ask me are really and truly SCALE V's, but whatever it's all semantics, anyway, they are just so over the top overwhelming and emotional. It shows such a sharp contrast from how it used to be to how it could have and should have always been. The unbelievable misery that the clothing situation was and just the sheer joy/relief/pleasure that it now is becoming and IS. Somehow we told ourselves that it was okay to reach those high numbers. But was it really ever okay to do that to ourselves? All right, no more of that stuff. Enjoy those snug size 12's and I look forward to hearing of them being nicely fitting size 12's. Because hello, we all know it's coming since you decided to change your life. Good decision!!!


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Work it! It is good to have a visual for goals. Be sure and take a pic in them now and later when they DO fit. You will be over the moon! Congrats!

that is the ultimate best type of surreal!! Congratulations!! and in 14 months. WOW!

That's amazing!!!!

:woohoo: Way to go skinny girl!

Robin, you're exactly right. There's no way to describe to someone who hasn't been there what it's like to pass by Lane Bryant, because you can't shop there, because they only go to a size 28, and those are for small women. Why wasn't it a wake-up call for me when I couldn't wear 28s anymore? Dunno. Well, I do know--lots of depressing reasons.

But to be on the other side of the fence, to be too small to shop at Lane Bryant--yeah. That's a surreal victory and a half. I'm small enough now that I choose not to shop at Lane Bryant, but I won't really feel victorious about it until there's no possible way I can shop there because the 1 Reds are falling off.

Well, I still get bras there, but I'm 2 inches away from not being able to do that anymore. I think they go to 36 and my chest measurement is a 37. My measurements are 43-34-43. Last year this time it was high sixties-high fifties-seventyish. Again, surreal.

:)

congratz!!!

Those are some amazing measurements, my dear. WAY TO GO!

And, an update ~ I'm sitting here on the sofa, with my laptop, wearing a SIZE 12 Lands End thermal t-shirt. A 12!!! It's really short, like almost bare-midriff short, but that's just because it's old and it shrunk. It belongs to a friend who left it here a loooooooong time ago. I just happened to find it this afternoon and decided to wash it and try it on. Boy, it's form-fitting but not in a bad way. I wore it to the grocery store earlier to pick up some dog cookies and got checked out several times, LOL.

12 is such a surreal size...

Way to go! Its so much fun when we reach these NSV's.

DC, that is more than impressive! Too big for LB and now in 12s..... by the new year you are sooooo going to be wearing them in public! Keep up the good work!

That is the best part, fitting into sizes that are soooo normal! You are doing great! Congrats!

Well I wouldn't say I'm "in" a 12. I'm in a 16, definitely, some 14s. 12 is over the horizon though, and I've never been a 12 before. Never. I basically jumped from 6X/husky to 14 in one school year in elementary school and I don't remember any intervening sizes...

Whoo hooo! You go DC! To be too small for Lane Bryant, now that is something I can aspire to. I don't ever remember being a size 12 either. Maybe when I was 12 yrs old. I used to think your age was the size you should wear, because that's how it worked for me. Up one size every year.

I totally know how that feels! Great job! Seriously...you're an inspiration!

That is so freaking awesome! Girl you totally rock!

When I was in high school size 14 was the first 'plus' size, and the 'normal' section stopped at 12. So getting into a 12 for the first time was a big, big deal for me. Which is to say, I am so excited for you! That's a major victory indeed. (It still feels pretty surreal to me to try on anything with a single digit on the label. Just wait until you get there; it's going to blow your mind.)

And sizing *down* out of Lane Bryant...is there a better feeling? I really don't think there is.