I've been remiss about commenting much lately although I am still reading! I'm on a diet that is going quite well, and I had what we call a "non-scale victory" that I thought the ladies of YLF would appreciate.

When I was putting on weight last year (and before that), I noticed that one clear sign of my gain was that my pants would get shorter. When I bought them they were PPL, but then...there they were, up around my ankles. Eventually I realized that as my waist area was getting bigger, the fabric to cover it had to come from somewhere! LOL. My girlfriend and I then would measure if we were gaining by our PPL, and laughingly compare notes. So I would end up having to buy new pants not because they were snug around the waist, but because they were too short!

This new diet I'm on has had a dramatic effect on my waistline; I've been measuring weekly and I'm already down a couple of inches. And it shows in my pants and sweaters; everything is getting much looser. Yesterday I put on a pair of my favorite pants, ones that had fit well around the hips before but were always meant to be worn with flats for PPL.

Most noticeably, there was suddenly a heck of a lot of extra fabric swishing around my ankles! I actually had to wear them with my 2" heeled oxfords instead of my flats so they looked right. (I also had to wear a belt with them, which means a little more loss and I won't be fitting into them at all. YAY.) I was cracking up at the difference in PPL, and immediately thought of all of you!

Now I'm worried about all the pants I had to have altered for longer PPL so I could wear them with all my beloved heels... how much extra fabric will there be down there now?