Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Goal Dress.....

Lesli came to visit me for a few days last month, and we decided to do some bargain shopping. I say bargain shopping as if we ever shop any other way....but you get my point. Shopping is our cardio as you all know....

We ran across this super cute dress....at a FABULOUS price. At first glance it looks a lot bigger than it is. It was only when i was trying to shove my big hips into this dress that i realized....either i think i look a lot smaller than i do, or i still size up outfits based on how my body used to look. Either way, in about 30 seconds, I realized that the cute little dress was NOT going to get past my neck....

I walked out of the dressing room and told Lesli about what had just happened and she came up with an awesome idea of making it my "Goal Dress." Oprah does this too...she puts a dress on her vision board that she wants to be able to fit into, and it motivates her to loose or keep off weight.
I am estimating I need to shed about 18 more pounds before I can fit into this dress. I have set my birthday, August 1st as the day to do it. When that is done, I will be at my goal weight, 30 pounds lighter than I was when I started this journey. I think that is PLENTY of time, and hopefully I can get that amount of weight off before then, but I feel like it is a pretty healthy goal.

So now it's hanging in the front of my closet and everyday I go to get dressed I sneak a glance at it. It's such a "Christina" dress. I can't wait till I can fit it... At least for now, I can be happy that I have a cute pair of shoes for it, and they already fit.....