Strong, Smart and Accomplished

I went shopping on Sunday afternoon with my mom. She convinced me to go ahead and spend some money on some new clothes for my new, slightly smaller self.

I went into an old favourite store and grabbed all my regular sizes--medium tops, size 8 bottoms. In the change room I pulled on the pants and frowned. They seemed to fit in the waist, but the legs were unflatteringly baggy. I showed my mom.

"Maybe you should try a size down," she suggested.

"Yeah, but they seem to fit in the waist," I said.

She grabbed the waist band and pulled it away from me. There was definitely some room to spare there. I decided to humour her and try a size six. Well, the joke was on me because they actually fit. And the tops? I tried a few in size small and they fit too! I took another look in the mirror and said to myself, "Hello Gorgeous, nice to see you again."

Today I am sporting my new white capris and a blue and white horizontal stripped tee. I also brought out my red Wonder Woman shoes for an extra bounce in my step. Everyone at work was telling me how summery I look. I feel like summer. I feel great.

I spent some time on Sunday thinking about how far I've come in the past four months (and the past four weeks). I made a list of all my accomplishments.

1. Survived my old job, started a new job that I am doing well at
2. Found love, gave love, lost love and survived
3. Learned new and wonderful things about myself
4. Shrank myself (a size 6! Five if the material is stretchy and oohh how I love the number 5)
5. Joined the gym and tried two new classes
6. Started work on being more forgiving of myself
7. Stopped doing something I wasn't enjoying doing anymore (I finally bowed out from my work with the Red Shoe House)
8. Wrote some really good stuff. I realized lately more than ever just how important my writing is to me and how it's there for me to help me through my best and worst times. I write pretty much every day now as a way of checking in with myself, figuring out what's in my heart (because when you follow your heart, you find your dreams). It's my place to be honest with myself even when I think that my friends and family may not approve of what I'm thinking or feeling.
9. Dedicated myself to learning more about relationships and experiencing romance

Some people take a whole year to do all that stuff. I did it in four months with most of that being done in the past four weeks! FOUR! Can you tell how proud I am? How happy?