As I’ve stated in previous posts, the method I’m using for gauging whether or not I’m progressing at losing weight isn’t by weighing, but by picking a “goal” pair of pants. My first goal pants are a pair of capri jeans that I purchased, hoping they’d fit when I purchased them, since I have two pairs of jeans by the same manufacturer that fit. Yeah, wrong. In fact, they are small enough in comparison that they are probably most of the way to being a size smaller than the jeans.

I’ve been trying them on each Friday.  Today, I got them buttoned and zipped.  Woohoo!  They are still a bit too much like sausage casings to want to wear them out of the house, but without a doubt, getting to this point with them means I have lost weight.  Granted, jeans being the way they are, I could probably wear them and they would relax and perhaps be suitable for wearing out after a couple of hours, but that’s not what my goal is.  I want them to be comfortable and fit well on the first wearing out of the dryer, not when they have relaxed.  I think by next week, or the week after, they should be at that point.  And that’s the point where I’ll make the decision as to whether I’ll weigh again.  I might not, since this is working so well for me.

At that point, I’ll pick the next pair of goal pants, although I have a pair in mind already; they’re a pair of capris I bought last year before going on a trip to Memphis.  When those fit, I know I will be close to the weight I managed to get down to last summer, before jumping off the bandwagon.  (No one falls.  They jump.  Deciding to go off an eating plan is a conscious decision.)

I know I’m rambling… but I have to say, again, that I’m really happy with how this has worked out.  I can tell that my clothes are fitting much better, and while I”m not a full size down by any means, I don’t feel so ponderously heavy and uncomfortable as I was, before.  While I don’t have a number that I can boast to my friends, I also don’t have a number that’s killing my expectations and making me doubt myself.