Mini Goal NSV

When I started on MFP, I had some vague weight loss goals, but no deadlines. I just wanted to be fit and leaner by the time I turn 50 in September. Then I started noticing other people had set mini goals and decided that maybe that would help me too. If I had a timeline, it might keep me more focused.

About the same time I was making the mini goal decision I ordered a dress to wear to nephew's wedding. I ordered the size the chart said I needed. I hoped that by the time the wedding came around it might be a bit loose, but I'm never optimistic enough to order a size I "hope" to be able to wear. The dress came in and I tried it on. It wouldn't zip. Not happening. Not with 2 hands. Not with someone else's help. Not going up past my ribs. Now, if it had been my waist, it wouldn't have surprised me. But my ribs? What the heck are you supposed to do about ribs!!?
So, now I have my mini goal of weight 130 by the wedding and I have a dress that my stubborn self will not give up on. I might mention that shortly after I set my mini goals I had some things happen that sent me in to a depression. I couldn't work out. I could barely get up and go to work every day. Life had punched me hard and took my breath for a while. I got through it, but managed to gain back 5 of the 10lbs I had lost. Oh well, I did it to myself and I would undo it.

Fast forward to yesterday. The day of the wedding. I had been so careful with my calories and worked out like crazy. I put on the dress and proudly was able to zip it, wear it and still breathe. I danced non-stop for 2 1/2 hours at the wedding and felt great.

I didn't reach my weight goal. That's ok. I'm seeing changes in my body and it isn't quite as important what number shows up on that sadistic little dial. I got the dress zipped!!!!!

Oh, and pardon the pictures. I forgot to take any until we were on our way home. It was about 1:00 in the morning in a convenience store bathroom after I had been dancing my butt off. It was a fabulous wedding, btw.