A minor milestone

[kitanzi]

Diets are still boring to everyone who isn't on one - but I'll take my minor triumphs where I can get them, I guess!


I really don't feel like I'm getting anywhere very fast, especially with having a very hard time getting strictly back on diet after the trip to England, but I did get a bit of a boost the other day. ladyat has lost quite a bit of weight herself, and passed on an assortment of jeans and pants that she had undergrown. I found this weekend that I can fit into all of them quite comfortably except for the very smallest, which will fit but pinches. Considering that's a size 14, and I started this whole diet when I literally burst a seam on a size 18, I am feeling rather pleased at the moment.

Guess I am a bit shallow on this, but my creeping weight - and volume! - is something I've been working on for months and concerned about for years. There are a lot of benefits in how healthy I feel as well, but I have to admit there's a certain satisfaction in zipping up those smaller jeans.

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[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Thanks! *G* *hug* (I do feel rather shallow about it, though...)

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[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Feel shallow all your dignity demands. Just feel size 14 also. :) (That's where I am right now too; race you for who gets the hand-me-downs!)

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

What an interesting way to look at it... maybe you're right, maybe that's all it is. *G* As for the handmedowns, if you are comfortably a 14 now you're a half size or so ahead of me - like I said, that sucker pinched in painful places!

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[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

Then I guess I'm ahead so far -- my 14s are comfortable; my 12s will go on, but I wouldn't care to wear them longer than it takes to prove a point right now.

I always was a competitive soul; maybe you will serve as inspiration for me to keep making progress?

[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

Perhaps so.... I've always had a competitive streak myself, though I'm more likely to stomp on it in order to try and keep myself out of trouble. >:) Comparisons may be odious, but I find they're also inevitable.

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[pocketnaomi.livejournal.com]

The only person I actually grudge the advantage to in the diet competition is Manny. He has no business weighing perilously close to less than me. He just doesn't. Yes, I know that height for height women are supposed to weigh more than men, and Manny and I are almost exactly the same height. But it just feels all wrong.

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[kitanzi.livejournal.com]

*hug* Not much I can say to that... when things feel strongly wrong, it's tough to trump them with mere logic.