Twelve… is my magic number

I had an absolutely fabulous day yesterday… I’d booked the day off work (which in itself is cause for celebration!) but the day got even better when my mum phoned up to see if I fancied a girly day out shopping

Now I’ve been a bit ’lacking’ in my clothes shopping expeditions recently, not for any bad reason but purely ‘coz I didn’t see much point in buying clothes while I’m still doing my healthy eating kick and losing weight. I have in fact, been under strict instructions from darling boyf to buy nothing until I stopped dieting as I already have a wardrobe full of stuff that’s now too big for me.

However, a girly day out with mum is never to be turned down so I happily tootled off - promising darling boyf that I wouldn’t buy too much - but not actually specifying what ‘too much’ was

I’d got a couple of bits and bobs - a couple of tops and a LBD for an upcoming wedding (oh, and a pair of killer heels to go with the dress!) when we popped into my ‘mecca’ - NEXT! Well, I tried on a lovely blue party dress - in my usual size and it looked really pretty but I then got a bit disheartened as I tried on a grey dress that looked really nice on the hanger and really wrong on me…

Neither mum or I could work out what the problem with the dress was and try as we might we couldn’t get it to hang right. It was only when the changing-room assistant came over and pointed out that the reason that it looked wrong was that there was too much fabric hanging down did the light dawn on what she was getting at… yep - I needed to get a smaller size and not only in the grey dress but I needed to go down to a size 12 in the blue one too!!! It totally made my day, I even had to phone darling boyf up to share the amazing news…

I know that everyone had been commenting on the fact that I have lost weight, and I do feel much better (I’ve lost about a stone) but I really didn’t expect that I’d have dropped a dress size - and without really having to try that hard

I think darling boyf thought I was going slightly mad though when I insisted on showing him the labels on the dresses at least a dozen times last night… I wonder if I should wear these dresses inside out now… that way everyone can see that beautiful number 12!!!