Out with the Old

Out with the old, and I am not talking about my husband who had a birthday last month. ;-)
 I am talking about clothes. I have now lost 26 pounds and needed to purge my fat clothes, big time. This was kind of a scary task! Letting go of my fat clothes was very final. I will NEVER be 100 pounds overweight again. EVER. But there were sooo many clothes! I filled up 3 large black garbage bags! Some of them had hardly been worn.
 For YEARS I have had several boxes of too small clothes on a shelf in my closet. Today I tried on every single item in those boxes. I was amazed at everything that fit!!  Now several times as I tried on piece after piece, I had tears rolling down my cheeks. I haven't fit into these clothes for a very long time. Some of the items were newer, purchased the last time I lost some weight. Some of them had never been worn because I bought them right before I started gaining back that weight. But NEVER have I been able to wear so many of them, until today.
So today was a big day for me. I purged all of my winter clothes that are too big, and just kept a very few things that still fit. This makes me nervous because some of those self doubting thoughts crossed my mind, like, "What if you are fat next winter? What are you gonna wear?" But I kept focused. The few winter clothes that I kept got put into boxes and went back up on the shelf. Then I went through all of last summer's clothes and got rid of lots of them that are now too big. That felt great going through those things that I had worn, and in some cases, outworn, and throwing them in the big black bags!! Finally, i went through all of the boxes of too small clothes. Several weeks ago, after I lost 15 pounds I had gone through these boxes and was only able to find a couple of shirts that I could wear. This time was a different story. I have a whole new wardrobe!!!
I don't know what the future holds for me and my wardrobe. I am on Spring Break this week. What will it be like to wear completely different clothes to work every day? Will I be able to put together outfits? I am kind of nervous about that, but I will keep you posted. Deep down inside I can't wait for the adventure!!!