I bought a dress!

Another lb down, not sure if my goal of losing 2 stone by my birthday is attainable - I have to lose 2lb for the next 2 weeks but I will still be happy with what I have achieved so far!

I have been thinking about my loss and how I think about it. Is it just over 1 and a half stone? Or is it nearly two stone? You know that cup half empty of half full thing? Well I was adding my weight loss to weight watchers online tracker today and in the corner there is a box that shows your current loss. 1 stone 10lbs. Somehow it sounds better than saying just over 1 and a half stone! Sounds a lot more!! I am feeling very smug!

Something else, yesterday I bought a dress (in a size 22). This is a big deal for me! I had no particularly special occasion to buy the dress for but I took the plunge and bought it anyway. Now anyone who knows me well knows that I just don't do dresses, what they might not know is that I really long to wear dresses, beautiful pretty feminine dresses, cocktail dresses, summer dresses, shirt dresses but I just feel self-conscious and look really ridiculous in them. That is, until now. OK I am still a whale but I am a smaller whale so yesterday I decided to take the plunge and buy a dress. I hadn't thought about buying dress beforehand, it was a total impulse buy.

So I nervously took my purchase to the checkouts all the time thinking it was probably an unwise decision that I would inevitably have to return, I didn't try it on first as there was a huge queue and changing rooms? well I don't know about you but I just hate them.

I got home and apprehensively took my dress out of the bag and tried it on. It fit like a dream! Whats more I didn't feel too self-conscious in it. I know that I still look like a whale but I am a much smaller whale now so I decided to wear the dress during dinner last night (we had friends round) and I just felt buzzed to be wearing a dress for the first time in many years (not counting the occasions where have been under pressure to wear a dress and hated every minute of it!).

What's more, the dress was a size 22. Still a plus size but I started off at a size 24/26. Well to be honest actually a size 26 as my size 24 stuff was just too tight and I had been kidding myself that it fit. Now I can say I am a 22/24 depending on where I shop. (I will be mostly shopping in New Look so I can say I am a size 22!)