The change.

No, not that change. The one that happens when you start eating right and exercising.

I don't remember when I started to notice the change, but gradually my clothes got looser, and my biceps actually looked like biceps when I flexed my arms. Then my collarbones showed up again. How I had missed those clavicles. My double chin started to shrink.

One day I was reaching under my daughter's bed for something (probably a renegade sock), and it occurred to me that I fit better between her bed and her dresser than I ever had before. It was at that point when I realized that the eating right and exercising were actually working, for the first time ever!

There were other changes, too. I started looking up instead of staring at the ground when I was out in public. I started wearing jewelry again. I didn't even realized that I had stopped until the day I reached for my dusty jewelry box. I must have subconsciously stopped because I didn't want to draw attention to myself. How funny I had never realized it before. So while my body was going through some big changes, so too was my mind. It was a great time of self-discovery. After many years of giving all of myself to my children (something I didn't mind, btw) it was nice to reclaim a piece just for me.