The View from the Classroom

Have you ever "lost" a piece of clothing that you really love?  Just CAN’T find it and you want to wear it so bad?  Well, I have.  Recently.

I can’t find this one pair of shorts that I just really like and want to wear.  Looked all over, went through the closet, the dresser drawers, asked my daughter if they got put in her room by mistake, even asked my son the same thing.  Nothing.  So, I’m racking my brains and think, maybe, just maybe, I took them to the cleaners.  That MUST be it.  I HATE ironing.  I can totally see me taking them to the cleaners just so I don’t have to iron them.  I’ll check.

I get to the cleaners, tell the clerk my name and she looks.  Nothing.  "Well maybe it’s under hubby’s name" I tell her.  She’s gone a while, but to my excitement, she’s carrying some clothes when she returns.  I don’t see the shorts right off, but instead, see some pants that look way too big to be mine or even my husband’s.  So I look at the label…Dockers…I wear those…yeah, I guess they’re mine.

I hand her my credit card.  She’s taking a while which gives me more time to think about how big those pants looked.  What do I do?  I check the size…

The clerk returns with my receipt and I say to her "These clothes must have been here a while, huh?"  She replies "About this time last year is when they were brought in."  I guess that makes sense I think to myself.

OMG…four pair of pants were in that set I picked up…three size 14 and one size 16…and they WERE mine.  I CAN’T believe it.  I mean, I KNOW I’ve lost a lot of weight, but until I saw those pants and thought "those look awful big to be mine", I didn’t realize how MUCH weight.  And it hasn’t been THAT long.  WOW.

What can I say?  It was an AWESOME feeling that I hope everyone reading this will experience at some point during their journey.  A feeling that everyone CAN experience with consistent, focused choices that move them closer to their goals.

BTW…not that it matters, my goal when I started was to be able to buy size 10’s without even having to try them on.  I mean, I’ve never worn smaller than that in my life.  Today, I wear a size 4 or smaller.  I still pick up 6’s to try on when I’m not feeling like it’s real.  If I can do it, you can too. 

Consistent, focused choices.
 

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