So here's an NSV that not all of you might understand, but that's the nature of these things - we each celebrate things that are meaningful to us. When I first set out to lose some weight, I looked at myself in the mirror. I wasn't being critical; I was trying to be objective and take in the "before". I carry most of my weight in the belly. I'm not so much an apple nor a pear shape as much as a 'pregnant' shape. Of course, that's not the only excess weight storage area on my body - there are two mini-storages on either side of my waist. Your typical love handles, really. When I was doing my own little body scan at the beginning of my journey I got excited about seeing a change in those love handles. I wanted them to be less like a fat roll (goodness, I hate that description but we'll all know what I mean), and become more like a curve where the top 'roll' doesn't sag onto the 'roll' below it. I've never really paid that close attention to how a specific body part changes when I've lost weight in the past so I wasn't sure how long this would take. Until a few days ago that is...
The little victory that I am celebrating today is that on my left side, the top part of my roll is no longer touching the bottom part. There's still a pretty serious 'dent' but it's not a full blown fat roll. I'm still waiting to celebrate the right side. For now I'm happy to have seen a difference in the exact part of my body that was bothering me.
You know, they should make a Hallmark card for these moments...