Hunger Games Update 2

I tried on this dress today, this dress that I bought about five years ago and that fit right when I was my smallest junior year of college.  I used to be able to wear it all over the place and I looked FANTASTIC in it.  I wore it to a baseball game once, with my dear friend Kristen, and we felt weird because we looked like "those girls" who dressed up for baseball games.  But we really just looked like that because we came straight from church.  We still stayed longer afterward, though, talking to our friend who was their trainer at the time...and we didn't hate that we were dressed like that when we were standing around right near the guys.  :-D

Anyway, so I have this awesome black sleeveless sheath dress that I've been dying to be able to fit back into.  I've been trying it on periodically for probably the past several months or so, trying to suck in and zip up the side without pinching those endearing lovehandles.  It hasn't exactly been a success.  I finally got it to zip up again (now remember, this dress used to fit perfectly just three years ago), but I looked lumpier than a bad sweet potato in it.  Not exactly how I want to look when I'm strutting my stuff as the youngest teacher at school (still).

However -- I tried it on today, and it zipped.  No sweet potato lumps.  A little bit tight (okay a little tighter than that), but still not bad at all.  It's not to the point where I would wear it to school yet; let's be honest, though, and say that if I were someone else with slightly less fashion sense, I'd wear it to school with no qualms and only serious haters would talk bad about me.  I'm SO excited.  This means that I should be able to wear that dress within the next couple of weeks, and do you know how cute it's going to look with tights and these plaid heels I have?  Not that I'll ever get the courage to wear the heels to school, but still.  It's just the idea of it that's so lovely.

So far, I've lost a little over ten pounds.  I can tell around my natural waist for sure, and people say my face looks smaller.  Other than that, I can't quite figure it out.  I'm just ready to look like a model, and even though I'm getting there, I'm ready for it to hurry up.  That's all I'm sayin'.

I take that back.  Yes I'm ready to look good.  But I'm daggum happy with how far I've gotten.  And you would totally agree with me if you could have seen how smoking hot I looked in that black dress and plaid heels tonight!!!