Rant of the woman who's not a size 6!!!

I overheard this conversation this girl in the building next door was having about how proud she was that she fit into her size 6 jeans. I pretended not to hear while silently throttling her in my imagination.

This isn't petty jealousy. And granted, I am about 5-6" taller than this girl. But I used to wear size 6 pants (twice). Back in my high school days, I could fit into size 6 jeans, but wore a lot of 32" Levis. The second time I was into a size 6 was early last year when I had my celiac flare and dropped 45 pounds in about six weeks.

Ironically, wearing a size 6 in high school was attractive to guys. Me wearing a size 6 last year, and guys were told me straight up that I didn't look too healthy. Okay, in retrospect I WASN'T healthy, but I felt ready to model bikinis.

Over the last year and half, I've slowly put back the 45 pounds. And people are telling me how great I look, not so sickly skinny. I would like to lose 10-15 pounds, but it won't be the end of the world if I don't. But I definately don't want to gain more weight.

My potential "Mr. Right" says that I look great as is. I'm not a size 6, but with my tall height, I can get away with a slightly larger pant size. But it's definately an inspiration to try and watch my carbs and chocolate.

Now most women would say that they would love a diet where most foods are off limits, but chocolate is okay. It's a great diet to a size 24! I think that's the hardest part of living with celiac - acceptable convience food is a Milky Way candy bar instead of a "Healthy Choice" dinner.