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LARGE

I forgot to mention yesterday that my tank and both pairs of shorts I bought yesterday were all larges. Which is AWESOME. It’s crazy how I’m still in the habit of grabbing XLs and then maybe a large on the RARE occasions the XL was too big. This time the XLs were like STOOPID BIG.

So last night I was re-trying on all my purchases and I made a faux paux – the bright blue shorts I bought… are GIRLS. I had tried on a navy pair from a different rack which were women’s, but when I saw the clearance shorts were navy I wanted to swap. So not thinking I grabbed cute blue ones from the rack next to where I got the navy ones – a girls rack. FAIL. So I need to go back and exchange the girls large for a ladies large. I noticed they were girls when I picked them up to try on at home, but randomly I did FIT INTO the girls shorts, it wasn’t pretty, but they fit.

Also the tank I bought – the picture I posted mainly showed the back of the shirt, the front is solid blue. I can’t get over how pretty the back of the tank is on. I was looking in my mirror with a handheld mirror to check myself out last night and I freakin love the tank.

P.S. I am SUPER STOKED FOR WIW tomorrow. I have been killin’ at the gym lately as well as in the food department!

Less Fat = Less Shopping?

I was talking with my mom today (who I am not close with, but she has been really supportive of my weight loss and also kinda inspiring -but don’t tell her Isaid that- because she lost 50 pounds last year by really cutting out sugars and making better food choices. My mom looks pretty great and I have told her that) anyway we were talking about how my clothes look so much better on me now. She was talking about her “ohhh that’s how that’s supposed to look” moments with clothes of her own. However then she said something that really struck me. 

When you’re thinner you buy less clothes.

She went on to say she doesn’t need to go shopping to buy something that makes her look 30 pounds thinner because she IS 30 pounds thinner. Or she doesn’t need to buy clothes to make her feel good because she feels good PERIOD.

It was a little epiphany for me because I was SO guilty of buying clothes to make me feel good, when they really don’t because I wasn’t happy with my body under the clothes. It’s so interesting minus running clothes and a MEDIUM dress that I got for $10 I haven’t bought clothes in TWO MONTHS. I don’t need to find THAT outfit to make me feel good, because I FEEL GOOD.

Editor’s Note: I still have a looong way to my GW or UGW, but every day and every pound makes me feel better and better about myself.

No spanx required. I thought about wearing them, but it’s so hot out today that I’d really rather not. I think I look cute, although I’m pretty sure my macbook camera has like built-in photoshop because somehow the pictures look better than I think I do and I didn’t like picking out the good ones, I just took a few and threw them on here…we’ll see. However I can promise you my chub or jelly to quote Beyonce is waaaay less cute in the seated position.

Maybe I’ll be brave enough soon to take some pictures in my undies and chronicle weight loss/body change – I really wish I had done that from the start, but I still have a long way to go and once I hit my GW and UGW it will still be excellent to see the progress

All this running is really paying off in the leg department. That’s the only part of my body I’ve been getting comments about lately. I used HATE wearing shorts, but for work in the summer I have to and I’ve come to embrace my legs. Tonight I thought I’d pair my shorts with some wedges another thing I NEVER wear because I’m so self conscious about my height. 

World meet the new me, a girl who wears shorts and heels freely 🙂

Hello New Wardrobe

Okay, not “new” per say, but I can finally fit all the clothes that I’ve bought over the years that never quite fit, but I had always told myself – I’ll just work out until they fit…which rarely happened. 

I was up faaaaar too late the other night going through my closets and trying on clothes that haven’t seen the light of day – like DKNY pants in size 14, a LARGE skirt from express, and various other things. Who needs to go shopping, when I have all these never before worn clothes already in my closet!

Off to the gym in the pouring rain – sad today wasn’t a pool day.

Well Hello There Jeans from Ages Ago

Saturday I grabbed a pair of jeans I bought a few months ago (size 16) since my 18s were getting too big. Well when I put on the 16s they are getting to big – which is very exciting (but sad because I really liked these jeans, but I can just buy them again in a smaller size). However I have a bunch of 14s from college that I haven’t worn and plan on wearing in the interim until I meet a number only worn once for a brief window of a time…12. So no new pants for me until I need 12s. I can wear baggy 16s and old 14s until then.

Since I’m trying to stay strong and not weigh myself until WIW I figured let’s see if I can check out some weight loss via a stroll down the memory lane of pants. I grabbed a stack of jeans from college and 2 pair that I have NEVER worn because when I bought them they didn’t quite fit, but I told myself they would (and those of from a whiiiiile ago). Anyway I was happy to find that out of 5 pairs of old jeans 4 of them fit!

PS I went running in yoga-esque pants I bought last month (I was cusping between L and XL, but opted for the L because I didn’t want the XLs to fall off while running…which has been happening when XLs don’t have draw strings).  Well the L yoga pants were inching off me while running yesterday! I can still run in them, but hopefully not for long!

Goal Pants

I “weighed in” today and only saw a 0.4 change in my weight this week. I was disappointed, but at the same time – slow and steady wins the race right?! Even though I’m still about 11 pounds from the last time I felt good about my body I have been feeling good lately so I decided to try on some of my “skinny pants.” SHOCKINGLY some of the fit – some better than others and some I still have a little ways to go, but it didn’t seem so far off or distant. So even though I’m 11 pounds heavier than the last time I wore most of those pants – maybe it’s muscle weight or something. Regardless I am feeling great and dressing my body proudly and because I feel so great it makes it easy to go to the gym and get an excellent work out in.

I think weight loss and gain are cyclical they feed on each other.
When you have some extra weight you dress sloppier and get depressed and then eat and put on more weight which means going to the gym is a bigger challenge because you’re not as fit and carrying extra weight.

However

When you are losing weight you dress your leaner figure better and are more conscious of what you are eating and exercise comes easier because you are struggling less because you weight less and are gaining muscle.

I hope, pray, believe that I will keep my healthy cycle up…again 2010 is my challenge, but in reality, it’s a FOREVER challenge.