Jeans Perspective

[silverthorne]

So, like, I've been losing weight, right?



And this is what my weight loss looks like.



The grey ones are the spiffy size 18's I bought a month after I'd moved into my apartment and lost the first twenty pounds. The blue jeans are the size fourteens I bought today and have been wearing all day. I was wearing size 22 jeans when I started out, so if you can imagine a third border of jeans under the grey ones with at least that much more space...

Yeah. I've come a long way. :)

I think I'll keep hold of the grey jeans until I hit my goal at the very least. *g*

(X-posted to dietingsupport)

Comments

[chiss.livejournal.com]

When you're all done you need to do one of those photos where you put on the baggy pants and pull them away from your waist, so we can see how much you've dropped :D

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

Hee!

[rebl1969.livejournal.com]

WOW! Sooooper impressive!

I've got to get off my fat ass and get moving. I look like a cow in all but like one of the photos John took of me over the weekend, and with Sophie about to turn 3, I'm still 10 lbs over my pre-pregnancy weight. :(

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

It is. I still have a 'perspective' problem sometimes, being able to see the weight I've actually lost, you know? But between the latest jeans size downgrade (the only time in life a 'downgrade' is a good thing! *g*) and then setting the pants up like this...it really helps to show what's really been going on. ^^

Ow. I've heard it's actually lots harder to lose five-ten pounds than it is to lose a lot, because your body starts getting really chintzy on letting go like it should. You might have to start tramplinign when you watch TV or something.

[takhys]

Wow. No, really, wow.

I wear a size 22 and as much as my mum (bless her heart) has told me that I could/should/etc. lose weight, it's been reading your journal that's really started to make me think I can do it.

[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

*nods* yeah, I know exactly what you mean. I'd been 22-24 for almost the entire last decade, and it seemed like it would never change. Occasionally I;d drop weight, but it would come back. You get kinda apathetic about it after awhile.

I...was lucky in a weird sort of way because part of what was messing me up was a food budget/list I really didn't have much control over, and likewise any activities that didn;t involve the SO without a lot of guilt-tripping and fighting involved.

Once I was out, and my Dad helped me get the firest truly healthy grovery run into the house in ten years, my body went 'ho, shit, I remember this!' and dropped some weight. With the encouragement from that happening, I just kinda grabbed hold of that hope and kept going.

The worst part really is getting started and understanding that it's not just a short term 'until I get to where I'm going' thing. Once I got my deet under me on that, it was easier because I was just going, 'okay, this is your life now'.

*hugs* I think...anyone can do it, but they gotta know what'll keep them motivated, you know? I can tell people 'do this, do that, do this other thing', but if it doesn't hit you right in the heart, it's not going to stick after a while. Trick is finding what'll work for you specifically.

Like, I'd never be able to stick with going to a gym to work out. All that crap with making sure all my stuff is with me, traveling there, travling home all hot and sweaty, putting up with traffic and other annoying folks, etc. But put me somewhere where the pool is twenty feet away from my front door, and let me get my own exercise aids that I can use in my own house when I feel like it, and I'm good to go. That works for me. Other folks? Maybe not so much.

But yeah, once you find that 'thing' that'll get you going, hang onto it, and it gets easier as you go. :)

[skywardprodigal.livejournal.com]

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[silverthorne.livejournal.com]

HEEE!