Last week while visiting my parents I saw a dress I really liked for spring/summer. It was sleeveless and would not be appropriate until at least the end of April (Easter) or later depending on the temps. I did not buy it as I wanted to wait and see what size I am at that point, vowing that if it was there and it fit me well at Easter I would buy it then.
Flash forward to this past Saturday when my mother came to visit me here in the city. She presented me with a bag containing the dress in a size smaller than I would ever have considered buying. I expressed my concern at successfully losing enough weight to wear this size (which I have not worn since high school) and my mother assured me that I could do it.
I am happy to report I can get the dress onto my body, but it will be much more comfortable and look much better when I lose some more weight. In the mean time I am choosing to consider this a motivating factor and not a waste of my mother's money.
In the past I have done this, bought myself things that don't quite fit yet and failed to ever wear them. I still have some of them and hope to get in to them this time around.
Maybe the key is to throw away the larger clothing so that you have no choice :)
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