Bad me — no post on Monday, so I’m catching up today. A two-fer!

My goal pants and shirt fit pretty much the same as they did last week. That’s okay; my other clothes feel looser than they have been since the holidays.  Between last week and this, I’m feeling strong again.  I worked out 5 times last week and met my goal (and a promise to myself); I have one more workout this week.  I’ve been eating right and meeting my other promises, as well.

Just today, I was speaking with a friend about how I look at my clothes, these days; I see them as temporary.  I’ll enjoy wearing them, but they won’t be around for long. The jeans I’m wearing today are a pair that were my goal jeans several months ago, and they’re now my “comfy” jeans; in other words, they’ve got plenty of room in them. They could stand to be hemmed, but I’m not going to bother.  In a few months, they won’t fit any longer. They’ll be too big, and I will have moved on to other pairs.

That also helps me to remember that at one point, I couldn’t get my now-comfy jeans to button and zip. It’s only a matter of time (and perseverance!) before the pair of goal pants I’m currently working on become that way, too. I’m confident, now, that this will happen.

I’m nearing a year on plan. No, I haven’t dropped buckets of weight, but I’ve lost enough that I feel a lot better about myself than when I started.  If I hadn’t made the effort, where would I be?  So why not make the effort?