Thank you for the solidarity. I'm glad to know I'm not alone in having saved clothes and placed an arguably undue value on them because of all that they represent besides just a body size.

I'm keenly aware that I haven't "done it" yet, but am only in the early stages of doing it, and that only with the passage of one, two, three years at my goal weight will I be able to claim victory.

But still, every little milestone is important, and part of the reason I'm writing about them here is to keep them fully in my consciousness so that I don't ever have to repeat them.