day nine: doing just fine!

A Story about Slacks

I bought a pair of slacks a month or so ago, and they were pretty tight around the middle when I bought them. The only reason I bought them was because I was tired of trudging through Kohl's, trying on so many pairs of trousers, desperate to find a pair or two for work. Agitated, depressed, annoyed, and tired, I settled for this particular pair of grey trousers because they sort of fit. They fit enough to get by. I figured they would stretch.

I never dried these particular pants in the dryer, for fear of them shrinking and me not being able to fit into them at all, but they still managed to get tighter and tighter as the weeks went by. I was getting bigger and bigger. For the last two weeks, I didn't wear them at all, because they caused me pain by digging into my middle all day long and causing this horrid muffin top effect on my stomach.

Today I thought I would revisit those pants, a little nervous that nothing had changed, and they would still be tight as ever, perhaps even tighter.

But. That is NOT the case. They fit perfectly! No muffin top, just a neat snug fit. They won't be falling down all day, and they won't be cutting off circulation to the lower half of my body. Huzzah! Last week's hard work and effort has paid off in this small way, but a very significant way.

I'm on top of the world! I can't believe it's actually working. It's not all that much work! It's gotten easier and easier as I've stuck to it. The first week was kind of dreadful because the exercising was painful and hard to get through, my muscles ached for days afterward, but now it doesn't hurt to get out of bed, it doesn't hurt to go from standing to a sitting position, all is well. And it's paying off!

I have yet to step on a scale and try to see the fruits of my labor represented in numbers, I'm still too afraid to do that, I know it will discourage me incredibly if I haven't lost a significant enough number, like 5 - 10 pounds. (Impossible, really, to do in a week healthily anyway, but that's how my brain works, I want to see big numbers dropping off.) So I'm going to hold the scale at arm's length and be aware that it's there, one day I will face it, but just not yet. I need to keep moving ahead and staying motivated and I don't want that to drag me down.

So Day Nine is starting off just fine. I had a rough time getting to sleep last night for personal reasons, I didn't exercise this morning or eat breakfast, but I know it will only get better as the day goes on! I'll work out tonight, I'm making lunch and dinner now. Life is good. I've gotta keep on going forward, there's no point in turning back.

Day Nine Stats:
Wake Up: 12:30 PM
Breakfast: None
Lunch: Fish sandwich and cottage cheese with pineapple slice
Snack: Special K bar
Exercise: 2 minutes bike, stretches, 23 minutes elliptical, stretches
Dinner: Chicken cordon bleu, apple sauce
Bedtime: 3 AM