Old Clothes Out New Clothes In!!
While I have one more day before I "officially" weigh in for my goal and do all my measurements to see if I achieved my goals tonight I got a little curious about my progress on a more personal level.
While I know it is important to set goals on amounts of weight and overall measurements, one thing that has been a bigger "unset goal" for me has been just to look better in my own clothes and reclaim what i used to look like before gaining basically another person on my body. I have been working out and eating better and people are really starting to notice the changes. So I decided for my own benefit alone to try on some pants I have had hanging in the closet.
Everyone basically has three sets of clothing I have decided.
1 - The ones you wear on a daily basis and out on regular nights
2 - The fat pants (the ones you resort to when you are feeling fat and need something that isn’t your fav but still works for the time being
3 - The things you used to wear that haunt you everytime you look in your closet
While I know you are really supposed to throw away those fat pants to encourage yourself to never have those days, and those skinny ones should be in boxes if you choose to hang on to them, most of us simply leave them there as though we are torturing ourselves every day trying to remind ourselves of the days when we were young and fit.
For me, that wasn’t so much the case, a few things strewn in the closet from a move a year ago which never made it to storage bins and a few pants that overtime i decided i didn’t like for some reason or another or pants which i bought for "special occasions" which mostly related to work events for which I needed to dress different than in the day to day.
Tonight I took on the closet FULL FORCE. Not only did I reorganize my clothes I know for a fact fit, but I color coordinated and hung things by type (ie t-shirts, sweaters, jackets, jeans, tanks etc.)
But then I was compelled to pack away what I couldn’t wear. It started with a shirt I had noticed fit largely in my chest after losing weight. Turns out there were a lot more things which fit that same description. What once were things only a couple of months ago I was wearing were now HUGE. WOW!
I moved on to the jeans, the ones which fit, the ones which I didn’t know and for sure the fat pants. Immediately without even looking, I knew which ones were which, so the fat pants were just dropped into a storage tub without a thought. Then the ones I thought I could wear, which I had been wearing, if they were still do-able with a belt then I kept them for now, but not for long. If they were capable of being pulled off without unfastening the button or zipper, to the tub they went. SCORE!
Then were the lesser known pants, who knows why I let them sit there for so long without doing this before. Three pairs of pants in particular had their own stories as to how they found their way into my closet.
1 - Black Dress Slacks - These things were horrible, I remember purchasing them for an event I needed to go to after growing out of my previous pair. It was a nervous breakdown waiting to happen as I shuffled through the rack to find the pair in a size I swore I would never wear and one size larger just to make sure I didn’t have to do the walk of shame back to the rack. Turns out despite my better judgement the only ones in the right length were actually snug, but rather than looking like I was wearing high water pants I bought the snug ones and hoped for the best all night. I didn’t end up popping a button or anything, but that needless to say was the last time to wear those pants.
2 - Dun Dun Dun - The Jeans - When I bought the jeans, I went against the golden rule which had been a staple in life for me forever, STRETCH. I bought them thinking, they would fit even if I gained or lost a little. Given with no plan of doing either it was an investment which at best was bad. The pants were typical, nothing special but the coloring seemed dark enough to mask my flaws, boy was I wrong, but blissfully wrong. I wore those things off and on for a few months until finally my husband told me he really didn’t like them. He wasn’t mean about it but instead just said I really don’t like the porportions of the cut, so he offered new jeans to replace them and on the rack they went for eons. Looking at what few photos I have from those days, I know now he was being nice to say the least, they were horrible. I realize that now.
3 - 3 Quarter Pants From Last May - When I bought these I also purchased a brown shirt slapped on some cute heeled sandals and went to a convention meeting. It was semi-formal and so it hit just the ticket. They fit perfectly, given at this point I had lost a little weight, don’t know how but I did (started at my heaviest at 245 and whittled it down 20 pounds before joining the site). The pants were by no means bad looking, but none the less not something I would wear every day because of the style.
When I got to the three pairs first I tried on the 3 Quarter pants, they could have been taken in a good 4 inches in the waist and fell off my hips (even though that still is my problem area). On my thighs they were loose and I began to freak!! Had to show the hubby and he stood happy to see the progress. Next tthe black pants, neither of us liked the snug fit so when putting them on they had that saggy crotch look from hanging off my wast a good 2 inches lower than thier previous fit and they swallowed my shoes as the legs too were hanging lower. The jeans were the ticket though, on the pockets there were little rainbows (imagine that rainbows to highlight a huge butt) today the rainbows weren’t looking massive, instead the jeans looked like I was a little girl shopping in my mom’s closet. The wiskering of the hip hit about mid thigh and just to go look in the mirror I had to hold them up to walk.
It was probably one of the best nights of my life to see those results. You know you can work really hard but results speak louder than just what you think you are doing. A measurement is a number, but a physical result can make you realize what you are doing is really paying off.
I am looking forward to doing the same again in a few months with the clothes I know fit now, and before long a new wardrobe all together as I continue to focus on what I am doing. I only hope that the numbers can continue to match up with the feeling I have now after tonight.
Thanks again to everyone who has been really supportive on here, your help has been amazing!!
