I have always enjoyed setting goals and reaching them. The same is true for weight loss. While it's true that I would like to see a certain number on the scale again (which is also the same number, as a teenager I swore I would die if I weighed that much), I have also set other non-scale related goals. The most important to me was to fit into all my fall clothes again and to be able to button my winter coat this year. Last year was a very cold year. I didn't feel I could just go buy another coat, so I went unbuttoned in the cold Troutdale east wind. BRRRR! That was all the motivation I needed to keep that from happening again. I am happy to say, that as of Zander's field trip yesterday, I can now button my wool coat again. I also had to get a smaller pair of jeans as my other pair kept sliding off my hips! Hooray!!! Unfortunately, I got jeans that had some stretch to them and now it seems they are a bit loose, but it is great for my ego. Now I just have to go buy a belt. I can't quite seem to slim down my mid-section, so the majority of my tops don't quite look right, but I know it won't be long now. Skinny Christmas, here I come!
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Weight Loss Goals
I have always enjoyed setting goals and reaching them. The same is true for weight loss. While it's true that I would like to see a certain number on the scale again (which is also the same number, as a teenager I swore I would die if I weighed that much), I have also set other non-scale related goals. The most important to me was to fit into all my fall clothes again and to be able to button my winter coat this year. Last year was a very cold year. I didn't feel I could just go buy another coat, so I went unbuttoned in the cold Troutdale east wind. BRRRR! That was all the motivation I needed to keep that from happening again. I am happy to say, that as of Zander's field trip yesterday, I can now button my wool coat again. I also had to get a smaller pair of jeans as my other pair kept sliding off my hips! Hooray!!! Unfortunately, I got jeans that had some stretch to them and now it seems they are a bit loose, but it is great for my ego. Now I just have to go buy a belt. I can't quite seem to slim down my mid-section, so the majority of my tops don't quite look right, but I know it won't be long now. Skinny Christmas, here I come!
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Yeah Alyssa!!! I love that feeling of getting into clothes that used to fit. I'm so proud of you! I know I'll need some motivation once "Peanut" is here and I know you'll be there for me.
Thanks man...Would you like me to save my postpartum clothes? I so wish someone would design clothes to fit a postpartum figure. For the past year I have been wearing jeans that were way too big, but fit around my waist, so I had to get them. Natalie has these pants with an adjustable elastic band that has button holes that can be cinched or let out as needed. Why don't they make that for my size so my pants don't look ridiculously baggy, when in reality, my legs are not big, its my tummy that is the trouble! It would have also been nice to have tops that fit a postpartum nursing mom's figure. I know they have nursing tops, but they always look like nursing tops...here I go on and on like this is a blog or something!
Congratulations, my dear!!!!!
Getting down to comfortable size is such an accomplishment. I know it can be discouraging when it doesn't happen in a couple of months and you don't have the energy or motivation or the time to figure out what to do.
I remember especially after Andrea was born I had the same fitting problem - AND the current style was gathered at the waist - but not elastic - and slim at the ankle. I had finally found a pair of jeans that fit or at least covered me and you, my 5 year old fashionista, let me know that they looked like clown pants. Unfortunately, that wasn't a good day for me and I started crying.... just a bit of post-partum depression, you think? I've wished ever since that I could have handled that at the time. We seem to have survived.
Love, Mom
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