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I keep very few reminders in the house of my heavier days.  No real reason.  There’s just not much of anything around that brings back that time in my life.

But a coat hanger caught my eye the other day.  It still had the plastic tab from the store. 
Size XXL.

What a miserable size that was for me.

I remember thinking I had wasted my life away, and that I was doomed to live with regrets the rest of my life.  I actually remember that I was thinking I had waited too late to get started.

That was before I did anything about it, of course.

But now I’ve been this size for about two years.  I’m set in my exercise ways.  My eating habits are firmly in place.

And although I spent over twenty years morbidly obese, I really don’t remember being any other way then the way I am right now.

They say when you quit smoking, after a given time it’s as if you never smoked.  Your lungs heal and forgive you. 

I guess that’s where I am in my weight loss journey.  I’ve been this way long enough that I forgave myself, and it’s as if I was never anything but the way I am now.

I spent a lot of time fretting over events I let pass me by because I wasn’t at optimal size.  I tore up many a picture from special occasions for the way I looked in my “little” black dress. 

I started my diets years after I should have, out of depression for what I let get away from me. 

But here’s what I didn’t know…

When I made it to goal, a whole new world of Special events would open up to me.  I would have more reasons to wear little black dresses.  And sometimes I would wear a little black dress to the grocery store or Wal-Mart, just because I could.

Every day is a special occasion when you’re happy with your life!  WOO HOO!!!

And no matter what age you reach goal, there are more special events and reasons to get dressed up than you can imagine.

It’s never too late to get started.  You have things to do, places to go, and people to see.

Get after it.

And if you’re a guy…I have absolutely no clue what the guy equivalent of a little black dress is.  Somebody fill me in!

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