Rewards

Progress: This week I lost 1.2kgs, taking off the kilo I gained last week and a bit more, which is good, although the rest of the weekend probably did a bit of damage!

Even though I’m currently on a plateau and becoming quite frustrated with my slow progress, every now and again it’s great to look back at where I was and appreciate that I am getting the rewards of all the work I’ve done so far. I had one of those nights on Saturday.

I went to a ball, looking and feeling fantastic in my size 10 dress.  Not that I’m really a size 10, but hey, that’s what it says on the label! And I was a normal size. Not skinny, by any means, but definitely not large either. And when people told me I looked lovely I believed them, and it felt really good! I didn’t feel self-conscious, and I was able to move easily and (sorta) gracefully.

A year ago, I would have gone to the ball, and I would have felt good in whatever I wore, but I would have been self conscious next to the ‘normal sized’ girls and I would have known deep down that I didn’t look good. And I certainly wouldn’t have enjoyed showing off the photos to my work colleagues as much as I did this morning!

So despite my lack of recent progress, I am still going to recognise and enjoy the rewards that I have already earned, while I continue to look forward to the ones still to come, when all the rest of my clothes have that size 10 label in them!