I own one pair of really good jeans that I've been able to fit into for the past five years. I actually own three or four other pairs of jeans but they are all still too small. The jeans I'm wearing today, I bought around five years ago at the height of my weight gain. When I bought them they were tight enough that wearing them was a little miserable. The legs were tight around my chubby knees making it hard to sit and made walking feel a little weird. I bought them that tight, though, because the next size up were a little too big and didn't look right.
I've worn this pair of jeans nearly every Friday, lots of weekends, holidays...anytime casual pants were acceptable, I've worn these jeans. While they've slowly loosened a bit over the past five years, as a pound here or there was lost and the fabric began to relax, when I put them on this morning, the saggy bottom was prominent. the waistband is getting loose and before too long--God willing--I will have to buy a new pair. Not that I want to spend the money on new jeans. But I'm looking forward to that experience. Sizing down.
The real excitement will come, of course, when I can fit back into my two sizes down jeans from the last time I lost a significant amount of weight. Of course, they aren't really in style anymore so I don't know that I will actually wear them, but fitting into them will be a huge victory. I haven't fit into those jeans since about 2007!
I may be getting ahead of myself, I know. I'm due for a plateau just any day now, now that I'm officially 11lbs down since June. I'm thinking positively, though. Living on faith. Believing that this time I'm going to make it. It's going to happen. Prediabetes will be a distant memory.
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