I need your help

I am addicted to ModCloth. Seriously addicted. I love their stuff with a passion, but sadly most of it is out of my price range...except when things are on sale. And I was suckered into buying a dress because it was 70% off...

Is this not gorgeous???????? It was so reasonable and I've been following it for a long time. It was normally $104.99, I picked it up for $31.99 + s/h. I'm ok with that.

The issue? It was a size 14UK. What does that mean? A U.S. size 10. I am no where near a U.S. size 10. I was close in the summer of 2012, then I gained weight and now....yea...no...

So, I need your help. I need to lose enough weight that his dress fits. I need as much encouragement as you can give. I am going to start this weekend to get myself back on track with food and working out. The working out I'm getting better at, I've actually been running! It's the food I've been struggling with.

If you wouldn't mind, help me stay on track. Question me. Needle me. Bug me. However you want to phrase it so that I keep myself accountable. I really want this dress to fit by next summer. Which means a weight loss of about 45 pounds.

Thank you for listening and thank you to those who will get on my case about eating right and getting those workouts in. I will need the accountability and I know you are just the ones to dole it out!

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Sizing

Women's sizing is so arbitrary.  Which is frustrating.  When I was at my highest weight (1998-1999), I was a size 20 (ugh).  I was not happy.  It's actually reaching that size and realizing it was getting a tiny bit tight that I made the decision that I had to lose weight.  And I did.  I am proud to say I've never gone back to that size.

Over the years though, I have a feeling the clothing industry may have done some vanity sizing.  Which sometimes annoys me, other times it makes me happy.  LOL!  What annoys me about it is that I wonder if I'm really wearing something that accurately reflects my size.  Other times it makes me excited to go into a smaller size.

For Christmas, hubby gave me a cold weather shirt for running.  I have one already, which I wear for almost every winter outdoor run.  A second one is AWESOME so I'm not always having to wash one shirt all the time.  What made me laugh was the size tag.

Apparently, in Asia and and especially Japan I would be Godzilla.  LOL!  I do like that in Germany, France, Italy, England, and here in the good US of A, I'm a medium.  I like medium.  But, why are the sizes so varied?

Then last night, I headed out to get a suit.  I'm sure I chatted about the suit debacle in November...  oh yes I did - Frustrating.  I checked Ross, Kohl's, then Burlington Coat Factory.  I found a suit I liked in a 10, which is not a size I'm familiar with wearing.  I still wear a size 14 pants for heavens sake!  But, I tried it on and low and behold the jacket fit!  The skirt did not, it was a tad bit too tight.  But, for $13.99 I was willing to buy the entire suit for the jacket alone.  Then I found another suit jacket on a rack and decided to try it on.  Again, a size 10.  And it also fit.  Wow.  So, I put the suit back and just bought the suit jacket.  I was shocked that the suit jacket is a 10.  I've always heard that you lose weight first in your face, then your upper body, waist, then stomach.  Yup, that's me.  My stomach is always at least one size larger than my waist/upper body.  Frustrating.

And for fun, I also purchased a dress at Ross.  Not what I went in for, but it was green.  How could I not buy it?  It's so hard to find a dress in green and I love green, so I bought it.  It was $13.99.  LOL!  What is funny about this dress is when we got to Burlington Coat Factory they had the exact same one in purple.  I was laughing and then I saw the price tag.  $24.99.  Ha! Gotta love saving money!  Oh, and it's a 12.  It's still weird seeing a 12 on a sizing tag and actually having the dress fit.  And even weirder seeing a size 10 on a tag. 

These two new purchases really have helped make me want to get back on track.  I've been playing with the same 9 pounds since Sept.  I need to get past them.  I'm thinking these two purchases will do it.

Off to my session with the trainer!  Let's see what torture he has in store today.