Ah loletalynn, you were so far ahead of me in that respects(body image). I envy that you had that. I am glad that I finally got at 43... huge stress and weight(no pun intended ) off my shoulders!

I was such the tomboy when I was younger, my mom really didn't like how I dressed. As I dressed very business like blazers, turtle necks, sweaters, oxfords all in the basic blue, black, red, yellow, orange occassional pink.

She always tell me how she wished I wore more soft pastel girl colors... Not the colors I like. I like color just bold like royal purple, royal blue, ect...

I hated shopping just cause of my size. I have always had a big frame (not fat) and big boobs and it made finding clothes when I grew up extremely difficult. I was a 12-16 in size depending on the style and what it was.

Looks like you are making good progress towards your levi dream. 42 pounds so far whoo!hooo!