Banner Day

I ordered a shirt online the other day, and it arrived yesterday. I'm wearing it right now. It's very comfortable, a soft, blue T-shirt with a tastefully small logo of the LAPD SWAT team over the left breast. I'm really enjoying the shirt. 

Mostly because it's a 4XLT. 

I've been a 5XLT for as long as I can remember, and Annie remarked the other day that the soft gray polo shirt that I was wearing was "swimming" on me because of all the weight I've lost. So I took a chance and ordered a 4XLT shirt. Not only did it comfortably fit, but Annie told me last night that it's just a teensy bit too large as well. 

So today, I found another inexpensive shirt online available in 3X and purchased it. It will be here Sunday.

On the one hand if it fits, I'll be very excited for many reasons. Not just the weight loss (although that is a reason to celebrate all on it's own,) but because there are not a lot of choices or variation in clothing above 3X. I have like five or six shirts with the Superman logo on it, all exactly the same. There have been many, many, many shirts I've wanted to get over the years that don't go above 3X. 

Pants, too. My pants are swimming on me, too, and I've had to add three new holes to my belt! I'm almost ready to add a fourth, and after that I'll just buy a new belt. If I lose about another five inches on my waist, I'll be able to purchase actual, for real, Levi's 501s, not the "loose fit" 559s I've had to wear since I was 23 or so. 

Buying new clothes is awesome, and it's a motivator to me not just to lose even more weight, but to never, ever gain it back.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Yet Another Catch-Up Post, With a Catch

 Been a minute, huh?  My legions of dedicated fans have been battering me with emails and phone calls and texts begging me to bring them up to speed on my journey. There have been some developments, most good, a few bad. So now seems a good time to bring The Internet up to date.  First, the good: As of last blood check in July, my A1c is 5.6, which is considered "Normal." I've lost almost 75lbs since starting this in December of 2022. I'm moving easier, and exercise isn't nearly as arduous as it used to be. (More on that little factoid in a bit.) My daily FBS (Fasting Blood Sugar) reminds in the sub-120 range. I've discontinued ALL insulin. I've discontinued one of my two BP medicines, and as of my last check my BP was 125/83, perfectly normal as all things should be.  The Bad News:  After a low of around 306, my weight has started to creep up again. I'm currently at 311lbs. I thought it was 299, but later discovered that the rear edge of the scale ha...
Read more

Two Months Later...

 Sorry I haven't written more lately. Been very, very busy with work, work and more work, plus settling into our new house and getting it ready for the summer backyard entertainment season. This, of course, means one thing and one thing only: $PENDING MONEY! The house...hmm, how to be charitable about this? It came with more issues than a newsstand. The latest & greatest is that while we do have a rather large backyard entertainment space, it's divided into fourths: Cement patio/BBQ area, mulch area w/water feature, stone-covered area and a small lawn about 20x20. The lawn area has an integrated irrigation system that also allows three or four water spigots around the perimeter to operate. Only problem is, when the valve that charges that system is open...we were leaking water.  A LOT of water. And, because these things are never, ever obvious -- the leaks were underground and thus, invisible. Long story short, we contracted a company that uses some kind of ground-penetrat...
Read more

Another Catch-Up Post

 I've been slacking, and not just on posting.  So today (Saturday,) I got up and went to go bleed to get my six-months-since-the-last-blood-test results. The nice phlebotomist told me that since it was a weekend, I'd probably get my results tomorrow or the next day. So it might be Monday before I get my all-important A1c number. It was 5.6 last time, which is "normal," and if it's lower, I can honestly say that I'm not a diabetic anymore.  Annie and I are slowly moving towards a more plant-based diet. Last weekend we watched a Netflix documentary miniseries, You Are What You Eat . Folks, that show has put us off factory-farmed meat and fish. Forever. I mean, we've been eating a lot less red meat for years, but we were still having chicken and fish several times a week. Salmon is nominally very good for me, with those lovely Omega-3 fats and so on, but the horror of factory fisheries was brought into focus by that show and it literally makes me want to vom...
Read more