"Guess what I have" she said.
"Uh, a picture?" I replied
"Nope, guess again"
"Okay, letters?" My second guess.
"YES!" she said with excitement and pulled out this piece of paper and handed it to me:
My 4yo is one of my biggest cheerleaders! She comes up to me all the time and grabs my wrists and says "You don't need to lose weight here anymore" and then grabs my upper arms and says, "But you still need to work on here."
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My two older boys had a basketball tournament today. One had to be there at 8a.m. UGH, on a Saturday?!!!
Sadly I'm down to one pair of jeans that fit me in my current size (24). I do have two pairs of ugly workout pants (only to be worn at home) and one pair I wear to the gym (but NOT appropriate looking for public). Then I have a pair of nice sweats that are two sizes too big (yes, I'm still wearing them)
So last night I stripped off my jeans and threw them in the wash with items my boys needed. When the alarm went off this morning dh headed downstairs and moved the laundry over. Running a tad behind I went to the dryer 5 minutes before we had to leave to grab my jeans. I couldn't feel them. Then I started taking one thing out at a time. Nope, still NO jeans! UGH! I looked in the wash and there they were, all alone, dripping wet.
What am I going to wear?! Not my too large sweats I didn't wash them! I went to my drawer and grabbed the next size down, 22. I pulled them on, zipped them up and then the test...will my kids let me leave the house wearing them.
I headed downstairs and asked the question: "Do these look okay or are they WAAAAY too tight?" They all said the jeans were fine. WooHoo! I had tried these jeans on about 10 days ago but today I'm about 5lbs heavier. I thought there was NO WAY they were going to fit.
Size 22! Feels so great! I probably won't wear them again until I lose the 5 I gained. But it's such a great feeling knowing a true size 22 is only a week or two away! They weren't as comfortable to wear all day as I would like.
***For those interested in the basketball tournament outcome:
Each boys' team won one and lost one. Both of their losses were in OT, one by one point and the other by two.
That's so awesome! There is nothing better than the feeling of a smaller size zipping up! I'm so glad your boys are in basketball. Everyone asks my hubby if he played/played but he always says no (poor thing has social anxiety). Do you think they are still growing? Marc I think topped out a 6'9 in high school so he's pretty much stayed there. Do you have other tall people in your family? That's the weird thing about he family. No one is even close to his height. His dad is like 5'10 his mom is 5'7 and his grandparents are even shorter than that! His sister is 6 foot though! I wonder how big our kids will be! Hopefully little peanuts that grown OUT side of my womb LOL!
ReplyDeleteWay to go on the jeans!! Even though your weight is up a little bit, you definitely could have lost inches!
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that's so sweet! I love what your baby wrote on the paper. And wahoooo about the size 22!
ReplyDeleteI found you from Spunky Suzi's blog.
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Go go you! Too cute!
Congrats on going down a size! I hate that feeling of wedging myself into a pair of jeans a size smaller than I normally wear, but then that feeling turns to joy because THEY FIT! - well, it's pretty amazing. :) Congrats again!
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