Less of Me to Love! And I Like It!
As those of you who are also on the weight loss train know, it is quite common to hit plateaus where you maintain a certain weight for some length of time, often despite a continuation to exercise and watch your food intake. Even though I haven’t ever been very strict with my eating, just watching portion size and such I have managed to loose about 40 pounds in a little over a year. Not a huge amount given the amount of time, but I figure in taking it off slow I’m making a life change rather than a diet.
Despite graduating to the next class of aerobics in January my weight has been at one of those plateaus. That was until about two weeks ago. I’ve since dropped about 7 pounds or so. Evidently it was a pretty crucial 7 pounds as I’m now into a new size that I haven’t seen in several years. It has also brought comments from DH about how my butt is firming up, LOL! When I showed him the above tags he said, “You’re doing so good! You must be at about the size you were when I met you!”
That isn’t quite right I was small a 18 with some 16s thrown in when I met him in March of 2000 and I was about 20-25 pounds lighter than I am now. But the two Lane Bryant tags were from when mom visited. She got me a nice linen skirt and a pair of cropped pants for my birthday. I wasn’t doing the new size happy dance then. I don’t know about the other big girls out there, but I often find Lane Bryants sizes to run a bit larger than others. Well, at least sometimes. It seems their sizes can be all over the board. When DH first met me, when I was an 18 and sometimes 16 in other people’s sizes I had some 14s ranging through to 24s from Lane Bryant. So, I didn’t let myself get too excited over the new weight loss and new firming after that shopping expedition. However, my swim suit is about to fall off and I’m not ready to shell out $65 for another chlorine-proof suit when I’m still loosing weight and they were all saying the cheap suits were in at Ross. So, yesterday after class I went to Ross. They had no suits in my size, but I did come home with three dressier outfits from $60. I opted for two sundresses and a skirt and top because at SnB on Monday we had a bit of a discussion about how much easier it is to still look good in a skirt or dress that is too big than in pants or shorts. Not to mention it is much easier to take in a skirt than it is to take in a pair of shorts. At least for me. Plus we have a high school graduation to attend at the end of May so I figured I needed some properly fitting less casual wear.
To celebrate the end of the plateau, DH took me (and Seraphim) out for an adult mini scoop of amazing key lime ice cream at the local ice cream shop. :-) Portion control! :-)
Now, I think I may also deserve this, no?
I’ve drooled over a copy at Barnes & Noble and I love it! There are several items in there I could see myself knitting. Oh, and have you seen their CafePress store? ROTFLOL! I *need* one of those shirts too or perhaps the coffee mug! Of course neither book nor cafepress merch is in the current budget at the moment, but I can dream…
