One of the girls on my staff brought in her high school yearbook last week. So, I thought, what the hell; I'll bring mine in too. It was 18 years ago this June that I graduated from high school. Holy crap! Where does time go? Well, the girls thought that I was just the cutest thing all dressed up in my prom dress so I brought in the pictures so that they could see me in colour - in 1994 we still had black and white yearbooks. The most common comment was about my legs and how long they looked in my dress. I have to admit, my legs were nice when I was 18. I had collarbones back then too....well, I still do but you just can't see them.
At 18, I was 125lbs. So, I started thinking.....could I ever get back to that weight or close to that weight? I have often said that I'd never see 125 again because my body has changed in the last 18 years but is that just an excuse because I think that this would be an insurmountable task? People lose amazingly huge amounts of weight; you only have to turn on the tv to see that. I know a number of people who have lost anywhere between 70 and 100 pounds. It's not impossible but it ain't going to be easy.
I remember working with a personal trainer once who said that I would never be svelte; it wasn't a reasonable goal. I kinda took offense to that; we didn't get off on the right foot. I admit that it is important to have realistic goals, but is a 100 pound weight loss really that unrealistic? I am 5'3"; my body frame is not and was never meant to be carrying around an extra 100 pounds of weight. And do you want to know something completely crazy? When I was 18 and 125lbs, I actually thought that I was big! Can you imagine?
Nothing like a couple of prom pictures to get you thinking.....
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