Friend of Julie: Shopping

I went shopping last weekend and I was excited to discover I'm am now a size 14 top. All this time I thought I was on a plateau, I actually was loosing weight, I just didn't see where it was coming off. I bought two new tops, shown here, and a pair of pants.

Size 14 tops at long last!

After a few days, I returned the top on the right, because it's not warm enough. I'm moving into layering my clothes. The option to add or remove a layer never mattered to me before, but I find I am often cold these days, which never used to be the case; I was always hot.

I wish I could say I had fun shopping, but I'm not the size I want to be yet, so I didn't have fun at all. I like being able to wear the 14 tops, but I wasn't happy at all about my pant size. I know that my hips will slim down in time, but in the meanwhile, my pants don't quite fit right and I couldn't find any that fit any better. I ended up at Lane Bryant once again. If the shoe fits... There will be a time that clothes in that store will be too big for me, but I'm still not there yet. I bought the leggings in the photo above in a size 18, which I should be happy about, but jeans didn't fit in that size yet.

Blah, blah, blah! I'm still happy to be where I am and I know I will drop sizes if I keep doing what I'm doing. Meanwhile, I will celebrate wearing size 14 tops and stop complaining about my jean size. Remember, 21 months ago I was in a 30/32. I have to keep this in perspective.

Thanksgiving was great. I couldn't believe one of my relatives was encouraging me to have a piece of pie. She went on an on about it being the best. I told her if it was indeed the best, the place will be around in 2 or 3 years and that I might give it a try then, but not today. Unbelievable!

I wanted to make sure I had lots of choices during the holiday (I was in RI at my brother's house for the long weekend) so I could stay away from temptations, so I cut up a giant size turnip and baked 4 butternut squash. I also had sliced pepperoni, so I would have protein available any time I needed it. I had too much cheese over a two day period, but I'm back on the mend again. Pushing forward and loading up on meat, meat, meat once again.

While cutting up the turnip, I overworked my upper arm and on Friday I woke up with pain from my shoulder to my knuckles. I agitated my rotary cuff this summer while on vacation and then again painting my kitchen. The turnip was giant sized and I kept taking breaks from cutting it. The pain was much worse on Saturday morning and it's been pretty intense since yesterday. I'm taking some pain meds that I had in my medicine cabinet from dental surgery two years ago, just to get me through today, but I'm calling the doctor tomorrow. I'm pretty sure it's my rotary cuff, as I had an issue with it about 7 years ago. One side effect of having this much pain: no hunger. I didn't realize until I made dinner that I hadn't eaten all day.