Yay!  My 32 inch waste 501s have been feeling a tad loose this past week…so I decided to go see if I could fit into 31s today.  They fit perfectly, not even a little tight.  Yes!  So I bought 2. For some reason I usually take a one inch smaller waste in low risers (and two inches less in the inseam…go figure…).  So I tried on some 527s in a 30 inch waste.  Success again!  The 30s fit perfectly, and look much Much better on me then the 31s (you really don’t want low risers to look frumpy on you).

Swear to you…Swear…I thought I’d never get back into 31s again.  This feels so damn Good!  I can look in a mirror now and think yeah, I’d hit that…for the first time in ages, just ages.

Size small shirts fit me now like they always used to.  I don’t have to worry about them being too tight around the waste anymore.  When I was packing more weight then I should have been, finding shirts was the worst.  If they were right in the waste they were too big in the shoulders.  Right in the shoulders and they were too tight around the waste.  Now that I’m getting my hourglass back…at least slightly…it’s suddenly not hard to find shirts that work and that I actually look good in.

It’s still basically a no-junk food diet.  No sugar in my drinks.  Whole grain instead of white bread.  Lean meats, high protean.  I’ve added a basic multi-vitamin to my day.  I’m eating out more regularly with friends in D.C.  Yesterday we did a happy hour at our regular bar and then ate at a really nice Armenian place just down the block, where we started with a really nice fry bread plus this-and-that appetizer course, then I had a entree of lamb, chicken ka-bob, fried shrimp and rice.  So I’m not starving myself by any means.  Yet I am still…slowly now…very very slowly…loosing weight.  This is why I spent the money on that beam balance doctor’s office type scale when I started this…so I could monitor my progress when the weight loss curve started flattening out.  I am just amazed every day now, what simply taking the junk out of my diet did.  Or conversely…what the damn junk was doing to me all these years.

And now I’m slowly adding regular exercise into my life…and I mean slowly.  They organized a yoga/pilates class and I signed up for it.  It’s just one day a week, but I like the mix of stretch-exercise-relax-repeat in the mix of yoga and pilates, and I hope to learn from it.  My torso is starting to get a little workout now…but it surprised me how much I have to work to get flexibility back.  At my age, flexibility is something guys have to work on.  But I really want to get my stomach area a tad more defined.  It doesn’t have to be ripped…I don’t think I even Can at my age now…with so many years of not exercising at all behind me.  But if I can get some definition there I won’t be embarrassed to take my shirt off at the beach or when I’m out doing lawn work at home…

…like I need to this weekend.  I’ll try to take some more photos tomorrow.  I’m really feeling good now about how I’m looking.  But I have a load of yard work to do now that the weather is good again. 

P.S. To A Certain Someone:  I don’t know if you even bother reading my blog or not…you said that you didn’t use the computer much, that you were more into nature then technology…but if you happen to read this…thank you.  Much.  It was the thought of you laying your eyes on me again after all these years, with all that weight I’d put on since I started working as a software engineer, that motivated me to get myself looking good again.  I don’t know if we’ll ever lay eyes on each other again in this life.  But…thanks.  For waking me up.  Again.