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

[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. :)