Our Wedding by the Sea

As of Friday, I'm down 17.2 pounds!!  SO freaking excited & proud of myself.  I tried on the bridesmaid dress I wore back in May, which is an Alfred Angelo size 8 (street size 6).  This is what it looked like.

Now it's so loose that I can clip quite a bit of material behind me.  I love measurable progress!!!

Keep it coming, strong body!

I went bridesmaid dress shopping for Kyle & Veronica's wedding.  They're getting married two weeks before Chris & I (on the 8th) and both of us are in the wedding.  She wanted each of us to choose a satin Alfred Angelo dress.  She wants black and it can be short, tea length, or cocktail length.  So we went to the store last night & I started to try on dresses.  Most of the samples are 8, 10, or 12.  I wore a size 8 in the wedding I was in in May, and when I tried on an 8 last night it was too big!  So exciting!!  I will probably order my dress in a 6 :)

Then today I went to (finally) get my fingerprints done.  I registered & paid for them back in August.  So today I go and the guy pulls up my registration number and asks me to confirm all the information I had entered.  And I saw that my weight was entered as 160 (!!!)  Let's just say I don't weigh 160 anymore... I've lost almost 20 pounds since then and am still losing :D  Seeing that was just crazy to me... Big success is simply the result of lots of little efforts.

I start training for my half marathon next week and I can't wait.  I took this week off to rest and I really can't wait to be up and running again next week.

Sent out my save the dates on Valentine's Day and I'm getting lots of positive feedback about them, so that's a good happiness too :)

My mum made an appointment to try on the dress she wants to buy for the wedding.  She's going next Wednesday.  I LOVE the dress she picked out and hope she does too when she sees it in person :) She wants it in navy, which I think will be beautiful.

Morgan went to try on her dress in Georgia the other night too and loves it.  That settles it then: that's the dress we're going with.  All the girls like it in aquamarine, too, so I'll have a lovely blue bridal party.

I love how things are just coming along <3

I deleted this entry, because- after thinking about it- I'm just not ready...

So far, I've lost 10 pounds.  Not too shabby, if I do say so myself.  I've also added the goal of being able to do my splits.  I started working on them tonight and I was actually surprised by how low I could really go down.  I'm working on my front splits (sides will come later).  With my left foot leading, there was about 18 inches between myself and the ground.  With my right foot front though, there was only a foot!  Increasing my flexibility will make me feel so much better about myself and give me a goal that I can actually measure and take control of.  I desperately need something healthy to take control of.

I've been working hard to exercise and eat better, but I still feel like I could really push myself harder at the gym.  I've just gotten so... soft.  I used to spend 6 hours EVERY DAY in the gym.  I know, that's not healthy.  I wasn't healthy at the time.  I worked out obsessively.  It was gross.  I had no self-confidence, and it's been a really long, hard battle trying to love me for me.

I'm proud that I've lost this weight.  That I'm proud that the numbers on the scale keep getting lower- however slowly- instead of higher.  And that even though I might be super jealous of my sister who has lost A LOT of weight since this time next year and just keeps dropping lower and lower, that I'm super proud that I am startin