Weight for me
I've been losing weight. Haven't wanted to jinx it, but it's starting to make a difference in the clothes I can wear. Woohoo! Last night, I pulled a few things out of my closet and tried them on and was pleasantly surprised. for instance, I have a grey boucle skirt that I got...circa 2003. It was an online purchase that was meant to replace a similar boucle skirt I had that had de-elasticized into a grey sack (albeit a very classy grey sack---it was Liz Claiborne and cashmere---a thrift store find). Unfortunately, the online skirt (neither cashmere nor Claiborne) was snug, not sack-ish, and was several inches shorter. I was never quite comfortable wearing it---but when I tried it on last night, it wasn't snug, and when I wore it to work today, it was perfectly comfortable.
(I wore it with this top, FYI:
. Pic is from last year---my hair is shorter---and I hope I don't usually look that goofy. It's something about the way my glasses 'shrink' my eyes....)
Discovered that the short-sleeved khaki jacket I got (also online, about a year ago) buttons nicely and doesn't cut off circulation in my arms anymore, so that will join my fall line-up.
The big disappointment is the black and white polka-dot Curvy Girl halter dress (size 5X in someone else's universe, also acquired online---from this you may scoff to hear that I've usually had very good luck with online clothing purchases). It's still snug. Not as bad as it was a few months ago---18 pounds makes more difference than I thought---and if I lose 10 more and get cinched into my Lane Bryant corset, it might just work. It's deliciously A-line---if could just contrive a crinoline to poof it out a bit! It's got a decided air of the Fifties about it, and with a little floral headband and my Fluevogs? I'd be amazing. (And so modest, right?)
How am I doing it? Soup for dinner most days I work, trying to eat lightly (or not at all) after I get home, not eating like an anaconda when I brunch. With my schedule, I tend toward two meals, brunch and dinner, and I'm trying to be LESS indiscriminate about snacks. Do I still snack? Heck yeah, but I'm trying to pick things like crackers instead of chips and hard candy instead of Oreos. Rome wasn't built in a day.
I'm hoping to get into some kind of exercize routine when the temps go down. There are a few scenic places I can think of, and there's the prosaic Old Faithful, laps around the block.
My goal is simple: I want a weight that begins with a number "2" by the end of this year. (Maybe even by the wedding?) That's *not* unrealistic. It's less than 15 pounds away. Rah, rah, rah, go me!
Oh, and another thing---I won a free pair of Brand X jeans, which are very good jeans, but they do NOT come in size 28/30. I tried to interest various friends in buying these hypothetical jeans from me, no dice. Today I said WTF, I may as well get the highest plus size they have (24) and see if I can get down to that. They're a fit that *should* work for me, with a defined waist and bigger through the hips, bootcut, dark wash...so that's the next goal after breaking the 300-pound mark---to get into those jeans!
(I wore it with this top, FYI:
. Pic is from last year---my hair is shorter---and I hope I don't usually look that goofy. It's something about the way my glasses 'shrink' my eyes....)
Discovered that the short-sleeved khaki jacket I got (also online, about a year ago) buttons nicely and doesn't cut off circulation in my arms anymore, so that will join my fall line-up.
The big disappointment is the black and white polka-dot Curvy Girl halter dress (size 5X in someone else's universe, also acquired online---from this you may scoff to hear that I've usually had very good luck with online clothing purchases). It's still snug. Not as bad as it was a few months ago---18 pounds makes more difference than I thought---and if I lose 10 more and get cinched into my Lane Bryant corset, it might just work. It's deliciously A-line---if could just contrive a crinoline to poof it out a bit! It's got a decided air of the Fifties about it, and with a little floral headband and my Fluevogs? I'd be amazing. (And so modest, right?)
How am I doing it? Soup for dinner most days I work, trying to eat lightly (or not at all) after I get home, not eating like an anaconda when I brunch. With my schedule, I tend toward two meals, brunch and dinner, and I'm trying to be LESS indiscriminate about snacks. Do I still snack? Heck yeah, but I'm trying to pick things like crackers instead of chips and hard candy instead of Oreos. Rome wasn't built in a day.
I'm hoping to get into some kind of exercize routine when the temps go down. There are a few scenic places I can think of, and there's the prosaic Old Faithful, laps around the block.
My goal is simple: I want a weight that begins with a number "2" by the end of this year. (Maybe even by the wedding?) That's *not* unrealistic. It's less than 15 pounds away. Rah, rah, rah, go me!
Oh, and another thing---I won a free pair of Brand X jeans, which are very good jeans, but they do NOT come in size 28/30. I tried to interest various friends in buying these hypothetical jeans from me, no dice. Today I said WTF, I may as well get the highest plus size they have (24) and see if I can get down to that. They're a fit that *should* work for me, with a defined waist and bigger through the hips, bootcut, dark wash...so that's the next goal after breaking the 300-pound mark---to get into those jeans!