Milestones/Wedding Dress

After another so-so week at the gym (and probably not eating as healthily as we should), Matt and I spent a decent amount of time at the gym on Friday evening.  He started with his new trainer and I did intervals on the treadmill while they were working.  Once Matt learns all the exercises, we'll be doing the workouts together on days he's not meeting with his trainer.  In the meantime, we are way more motivated to get to the gym.  It will be great for us.

Even with the last couple of weeks not being the best in terms of working out, we went to watch the Husker game yesterday with my mom and sister and my mom pointed out that she could tell I'd lost weight when she saw me walk in.  Compliments like these are the best - when someone who hasn't seen you in a while points out that you look better than you did the last time.  I know that I've lost weight because the scale tells me so, but I see myself every day so I don't get to see the changes as much as someone who sees me less frequently which is why it means so much to hear it from someone who doesn't see me every day.

This, combined with the fact that I finally collected my wedding dress from my dad's place and it's just been sitting alone in a closet for 2.5 years, made me want to try on my wedding dress just to see how it fit compared to my wedding day.  I was a little hesitant as I knew I'd put on weight since then.  As it worked out, it fit significantly looser than it did on the actual wedding day.  The cap sleeves were hanging off my shoulders and there was a good inch around my middle.  I honestly couldn't believe it.  It also reminded me why I LOVE LOVE LOVE that dress so much. Here's a picture from the day:

Is it terrible that if I could, I would wear it every day cause it's shiny and pretty and sparkly and princessy?

Even though I have a lot of weight left to lose, it's fun to find ways to motivate myself and to remind myself that I am making progress and a lot of times, the progress I'm making is more significant than just the number on the scale (which, thankfully, continues to drop).  I haven't checked whether I fit into my high school skirt yet, but I have one more goal I'd like to hit before I try it on again.

For a long time, I wondered if I'd ever find the motivation to actually attempt to lose weight.  It's something I've tried to do several times over the years between high school and now.  I always got a good start and then something happened to impede my progress.  I think I've finally gotten to a point where I can be slowed down some days or weeks, but I always get back to it.  Having a partner as amazing as my husband to lean on has made all of the difference.  And trying on my wedding dress today (even if I was only wearing fuzzy socks and not the pretty pretty princess shoes I purchased to wear with the dress) reminded me why I married him in the first place and how happy he makes me; that I am so lucky to be married to such a wonderful man.  I love that this has become a two-person effort. :)

I can't wait to see the end results whenever we get there.  The sweetest part will definitely be knowing that we did it together.

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