I hit my 10%!

At weigh in yesterday I not only hit my 10% goal which was to have lost 20 pounds, but I exceeded it by 3 additional pounds for a grand total of 23 pounds lost so far! I was beyond thrilled and this number is particularly important because I want to lose 43 pounds total. Now that I've lost 23, that means I'm more than half way to my goal and it feels more attainable now than ever.

I've definitely changed sizes in clothes but I don't have any idea of what size I actually am. I can wear 12's and 10's, it all depends on the cuts. Some 12's are too big and some 10's are too small so who knows?! Also, I'm at 180.2 pounds which means I'm about to break out of the 180's and say hello to the 170's again! I'm VERY excited about that milestone and hope to be able to achieve that next week. I weighed around 176 when I got married in 2005 and I was very pleased with my body at that time. I had been doing pilates for several months prior to our wedding to help tone and look a little more sleek in my strapless gown.

My weight watcher goal when I started was to be at 160 and for now, I'm sticking with that. As I get close to the number, I will reasses and see how I feel. I would expect my body to be at a size where I'll be wearing an 8 consistently but since bodies are weird some times, who really knows. I truly can't imagine myself ever wearing an 8. It's like my hip bones won't allow anything that small to even consider going over my hips! I was wearing an 8/10 my senior year of highschool and while I thought I was a fat cow then, I look at pictures of me when I was 17 and graduating and I looked great. Healthy, I looked like I was in shape but I wouldn't have called myself a "thin" or "slender" person. I was just a normal sized person who should've been happier with her self image but I wasn't.

That is all changing and I'm excited!