It's working!

Today saw me return to work after two weeks break. I was miserable yesterday as I sat there marking and doing prep all day, asking myself why I became a teacher. I'm tired of always bringing work home, of feeling like I'm always working. I was doubly stressed because I had to take my two daughters in with me as I didn't have any care for them. They were so good, perfectly behaved and polite all day and spoke so well when people spoke to them. I was very proud.

Anyway, the exciting part is that three people commented on my weight loss. One was one of the office ladies who had been on leave for awhile so hadn't seen me for quite a few weeks. As she was leaving the meeting she leant over and said she could tell I'd lost a lot of weight and that I was looking fantastic. I tell you it was music to my ears! The other two people commented on how my clothes were hanging off me, and these were clothes I'd only bought last week! They had never seen me in them, but said the clothes were too big for me. they were size 18s. It didn't occur to me to even try a size smaller than that! Truth be told, I don't think they are that big on me. I can do the belt tighter on the pants as I lose more but the top is posing a problem. Seems most of my weight has come from the top half of me as the blouse sees a bit loose around the chest and bust area ( this has NEVER been a problem for me in the past!) but is still a reasonable fit at the bottom.

It just made my day to have people tell me that I'm looking good. I may have a gain this week, I've been making some poor choices and having too big portions these last two days, plus TTOM is due, but I know I will continue to lose and become a happier, healthier version of me! I really am changing. At morning tea today I looked at the enormous spread of cakes, pastries etc and thought how beautiful they looked and smelt, but I was not the least bit tempted to eat any of it. Later in the day I was offered chocolate and politely declined. In the past I would have tried a couple of the different cakes and pastries, and used the excuse that you get so little in teaching that you should make the most of the SDD morning teas and lunches.

Kudos goes to whomever organised the lunch today. Normally it is greasy BBq chicken, potato bake, pasta bake etc, but today it was an assortment of lovely fresh wraps and sandwhices. I had two different wrap 'halves', so a total of one wrap with fruit. Lovely.