Clean. Simple. FIT!: Shopping :)

Before I started this new eating/work out plan going shopping was just as much torture as it was social hour. My friends and I would spend hours at the mall, but trying stuff on was pure hell and I would always try and buy things a size bigger. Hiding as much as I could behind my clothes, now that has changed, for the better.

Today I went shopping with a college friend and bought two pairs of pants, a shirt, a dress, and two pairs of shoes! I had so much fun trying stuff on and having to return stuff and get smaller sizes so that everything would fit. It felt amazing!
So I wanted to take the time and just say that every once in a while you need to reward yourself.
I had absolutely no intention of buying all of those things today when I went shopping, but I came to a stunning revelation this first week back at college…I didn’t feel comfortable in the baggy clothes that I had been so used to wearing at home. I have a whole new air of confidence and I am beginning to feel comfortable showing off what I have worked so hard for. There is nothing in the entire world that tops the feeling of a pair of jeans a size smaller than you used to buy slide on and button easily! The smile that ensues is something that cannot be replicated. I am so proud of myself and how far I have come, I have one more size to go before Nov. 1!!!! I never thought that that would happen…EVER! Now that it is truly within reach it is worth all of the fun things in college that I have had to give up already this first week, the ice cream, the pizza, the popcorn, cookies, chocolate milk, grilled cheese, everything. I cannot wait to see everyone’s faces when I reach my goal come two months from now. J

Here are pics of the things I bought today!