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Thanks! I like your name and your avatar. :)

I think it's harder when you're short, but if I can do it, seriously, anyone can. Good luck!

Thanks! It might be time for more. :)

You look great too! Say, do you know who we complain to in Nashville about this grey, cold spring? :)

You'll get there! Dedication! And yay for having your BFF to support you!

Thank you! I feel about ten years younger too.

Thanks!! I actually just did it right before the pictures. :)

Peanut butter. Straight out of the jar.

Summer's coming in Tennessee. I get that last bit of weight off and it's all tiny tank tops, cut off jeans and cowboy boots until the cold comes back. :)

I'm tempted to wear the same cardigan in three colors with the same slacks ot work everyday and then just wear the same jeans and handful of t-shirts every day outside of work, but I'm trying to avoid this. Weirdly, as I get older I feel like it's more important to have style. I just haven't entirely nailed mine down yet…

Yeah, I am actually enjoying shopping much less than I used too, and yet I feel like I have more of a need for things to wear. Trying to figure out sizes is still weird for me, since I used to know what size in what brand and now it's like starting over and that makes shopping boring and tiring.

Great idea! :) This is part of what I'm doing! Pinterest and Polyvore. Trying to make something great out what I have now.

I really need to do this.

Sounds like we have about the same build. I need to get more dresses I can belt at the waist to highlight that and camouflage the belly.

YAY!

You know where to find me. ;D

This has been the hardest for me. The fit issues I had when I was heavier are vastly different from what I have now, but there are still issues. Learning how to dress around those might be the biggest challenge. I really need to do this. I bought some cheap ones to hold me over and it's not awful, but it's really not quite…

I totally understand this! Wearing things you couldn't wear before is awesome, but trying to figure out which things you can pull off is hard!

Yeah, I have saved no old clothes, which while a great excuse to buy new ones is hurting my wallet.

I keep telling myself that I need more dresses, for comfort and ease, but spring was so late coming, it's only just now finally weather for them in the South!

Yeah I find I dress much less feminine than I did when I was heavier. I'm not sure it's hiding for me, just comfort, maybe.

I have some of those slacks! I'm not sure they can even be tailored to fit now, but I love them, I don't want to give them up and they are only just a little bit too big.

5'3" about 128 now and I wear a 6 in pants. At 163 I wore a 14.

I know know I just told you this, but you look fantastic, my friend. I'm inspired to get back on track. At the very least, so I can take more/better after pictures. :)

I suggest putting your info into MFP, setting it at "sedentary" and adding your exercise in for a week and seeing how many calories that gives you. Or alternately if you are using the "road map" set it up with light activity and then add exercise calories back in as you need too.

I'm 5'3" and I started at 163. Down to 130 now. Mostly from very moderate exercise and really, really, really sticking to MFP for tracking food. Took me about 6 months to lose that 30 lbs.

So basically, you're me. :) Well the tall version of me.

Ain't that the truth. Why can I never find these guys? I have the opposite problem: I don't want to get married or have kids and all the guys I find seem to want that.

No, there's something you don't have that *THAT* woman was looking for. I don't know. Maybe she had expectations that she never voiced and when you failed to read her mind, then you simply failed. Which is her problem not yours. Again relationships are work, sometimes it's just too hard to juggle that. Which is more why…