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Sgorny! OMG, Lady you are looking REMARKABLE! Your recent pictures show such a skinny minny! You are such an inspiration for me! I know you lost a fair amount of the weight and the sizes before IP but, your dedication to change really is admirable and noteworthy! You must constantly wonder at the 10 sizes you have changed. Do you feel it or see it all yet? Do you find your mind is still catching up or have you completely adjusted?
Thanks! I honestly never get tired of hearing it. My mind definitely hasn't caught up yet. Sometimes, it's hard to believe that I actually wear. A. Size. 10! I just got a pair at Costco (couldn't try on), and looked at them, thinking "no way will these fit!" - but when I got home, and tried them on... OMG, they did! And a size L leather jacket I got a month ago is too big, thank goodness the tags are still on it, so I can return it.
I lost from size 28 to about 18 (mid 240's) in 2007, held it for a year, then re-gained to 296 on Sept 29, 2009 (size 26, 3x tops). From there, lost 32 pounds to 264 by May 18 (and to the size 20/22 pants & 22/24 2x tops), and since then? Down 90 pounds, and to size 10 pants & medium tops. The amount I've spent on clothes? Scary! Because I needed semi-professional clothes for work, and some for fun, and exercise, and sleepwear... I have boxes & boxes of clothes downstairs.
I get told by my husband that I seem to look down at myself a lot, but that's because I really can't believe it yet. The person in the mirror? Me? No...
It's like dreams I used to have when I was heavy, where I'd get all excited looking in the bathroom mirror, and down at my body, twirling around in my high heels... but then I'd wake up, and come crashing down to reality, being unable to cross my legs, squat down, get up off the floor without rolling over or assistance...
Sometimes I still think I'm going to wake up, and it will have been all a wonderful dream.