Embrace the new you.... this is what you worked for.... Size 11 from a 20....

You are not alone.... most of us have body issues. I'm now down to a size 4-6ish and i still see that fat girl looking back at me sometime. Every once and a while i look and i like what i see. It's in pictures that see what i really look like.

It's weird because i was not always fat.... i use to be very thin.... like 22" waist thin. And when i started gaining weight i knew that i was but when i looked in the mirror i still saw the thinner person.... Then my husband took up the hobby of photography and i was looking at pictures and didn't recognize myself in a photo and that was all it took. It's crazy how our brains work. i remember emailing my friends and saying..... MY FAT ASS FIT IN A SIZE 12 TODAY.... I was sooooo happy.

Ok i know i'm rambling, but i have to tell you this story. My husband and i was trying to buy me a new shirt to go out in and i was in the dressing room. I was not looking for jeans. i had shorts on... picked out a shirt and he said you need to put on jeans so i can see how it looks. So i sent him to get me a size 12 jeans... he handed me the jeans i put them on and we decided that the jeans looked good too... they were buy one get one at new york and co. so he said, look for another pair... i said ok, but i want a size smaller as a goal pair... so i told him to look for a size 10....he like why do you want a size 10...i thought you wanted a size smaller... i said i know, you gave me a 12..... he looked at the paints in his hand that i had had on and said, but these are a size 10.... in the middle of the store... i said..."shut the fu#k up", "you are fu#king kidding me"... i had put on a size 10 and didn't even know it... so i got them and a size 8. In the middle of New York and co... i did the happy dance....... happy happy joy joy.

Awesome story! my mom had to force me into a size 16 she brought them over to my house and pretty much said put them on or else! So i walked out of my size 20 and slipped in to the size 16 then i missed the size 14 once i bought them a week later they where way to big and then it went from a 13 12 11 real fast. I love the story i would have done the same thing lol. Also i cant through away or give away a pair of my 20's or a pair of my old shorts i have to keep looking at them to make sure they are still loose.

Those areawesome stories. Sometimes I get on this site for encouragement and read so much negativity. I appreciate the two stories you shared. I am soon to have surgury and feel like I will never see anything other than a size 20. I was an 8 in HS so if I got to a 10 or 12 I think I would faint in the store. I have a little of the oposite problem with the mirror. I am a very happy entergetic person. I think I should look like that. So when I see a picture of myself or a reflection in a glass window, I am shocked each time. I cannot wait till my mental image matches how I feel inside. You girls keep up the good work and continue to post stuff for us new ones so we dont only read about failures.

Never let the negative get you down usually if someone fails its not the bands fault it is there own. I was planing on writeing about that later lol. Any ways you keep your your happy thoughts and remember if you need any help along the way im only a message away!