Any loss is a loss and therefor a success

Yum yum - Really!!!! I love salad. This pic (minus the avacado) makes me want my lunch.

Now, I wasn't planning on an update today, but here I am.

For those who are interested, I have 12 days until my final weigh in now. It's being bought forward a day because I am not going to be in my own home with my own scales on the morning of the wedding.

I don't know if people have noticed but I have a ticker to the right of my page to show progress without all the weight loss chat. So..................

I am 4lbs away from 70lbs. Being such a low figure, I am so determined to do it over the next 7 days.

I am probably completely insane but I am omitting more starch/heavy carbs than ever.

Yesterday I had a dress fitting, I have no full length mirrors in my house so my mother in law took some photos of front and back view on her phone.

It didn't look like me.

It wasn't how I picture myself.

A corset top, a flowing skirt, a silhouette of a woman. It looked good. It really didn't seem to be MY body.

I am by no means slim, but I am so happy with the achievement I have made. From a size 24 (US 28) to a size 16-18 (US 12-14) in 10 months is a huge milestone.

I love my dress, I love the way I look in it.

I may not pregnant like during my first wedding, but I am around 30lbs lighter - if not more lighter than that. I never checked my weight much until the end of my first pregnancy the depression really set in. Not post natal but the disillusion of marriage. The realisation of the mistake I made and how I realised that the life I had was not how marriage and a family should be. I put on more weight after my first pregnancy than when I was pregnant. My weight soared. My confidence plummeted. I slipped further into the vicious circle.

After the wedding I am taking a short break from dieting. I am going to enjoy food on my honeymoon. I am not going to think carbs, calories or points for a good week. I am not giving up I am giving my body a break.

I will then start on my next goal. I will create a new ticker and I won't necessarily give myself a time scale. It will be a work in progress at my own pace.

Any loss is a loss and therefor a success!!!! This is my mantra girls, abide by it.

Crap weeks happen, it's the distance you've travelled, the hills you've climbed to get there that matter. Not the temporary road block.

Good luck to all those in dieting worlds themselves.

Oh, I almost forgot, I'm also no longer morbidly obese but just obese. It's still an improvement!!! :)