Reached my goal size!

I am so excited because I have reached my goal size but not my goal weight yet. I still have 12 lbs to reach my goal weight and now I am thinking I could probably go a little lower in pant size! Last July I realized my size 18s were getting tight and had to buy size 20. It was very depressing. I didn't know my weight because I never got on a scale. I was completely surprised when I did get on the scale and realized I had went over 200 lbs weighing in at 206. I started slowly going for 30 min walks and increased to an hour and then started working on walking faster. I didn't really change what I was eating just how much I was eating. I started eating normal portions and such. Now 8 months later I am down to 152 lbs and just this week got into size 10! My eating habits have improved and since joining MFP almost 2 months ago have started working on eating more nutritional foods. I am trying to stay away from boxed foods and other easy pop in the oven foods. I am making more homemade foods and using spices and such for flavor. I try to keep substitutes in the house for those crazy cravings. I love sweets so I keep stuff like frozen yogurt and skinny cow chocolates stocked. For chips I really love the special K chip crackers! Especially the sour cream and onion. I get 27 chips per serving so I feel as if I am getting quite a lot for the little calories. I exercise almost every day. I sometimes will take 1 day off for rest but I have come to love running and miss it when I don't get to. I bought a new treadmill last month and LOVE it! It has IFIt built in and I get it free for a year and I have been doing Jillian Michaels workouts that right now are 30 min long and have lots of incline and decline. I also map out routes such as Hawaii for my longer runs. I am now running 4 miles a day. I've discovered that at night if I get on the treadmill after dinner and speed walk for 3 miles I don't get any late night cravings for snacks. I believe that every one is different when it comes to losing weight and if you can find what works for you it will be so much easier. It's also important to pick exercises that you enjoy or you will talk yourself out of doing it. I continue to push myself when things get to easy. My next goal is to be able to run a 10K and who knows, maybe a marathon is in the future. My goal size is 140 and now that I am so close I am thinking I might shoot for another 5 lbs when I get there but I am just focusing on my original goal for now! The first few months were hard because I didn't see a lot of progress but I kept telling myself in a year I wouldn't regret it and I haven't!