Tightening Up My Belt

After over a month of Insane workouts and a nice clean eating plan, I have dropped nearly 12 pounds and lost 3 inches from my waistline.  The upside of this weight loss:  my Tanita scale is no longer flashing the plus sign after it spills all my stats (the plus sign meaning I am "overfat") AND my "biological age" per the scale is now the same as my actual age.  Yes, I must shamefully admit that I have been 50 years old according to my Tanita on several occasions over the past several years...and it may have actually been higher given that 50 is the highest biological age your Tanita will show.  Don't even get me started on how my husband has always been a biological age of 18 per that darned scale.  And yes, I must confess that I did want to throw that Tanita through a window on several occasions.  It feels great to be 38 years old according to our scale, even better to now be sporting a Size 6.  I have never in my adolescent or adult life been a Size 6. This is strange & beautiful territory for me.

The downside of all this new territory: all my size 8 or 10 jeans now practically fall off of me. I find myself continually having to hitch my pants up for fear of showing plumber's crack or the top of my  pubic bone to whomever is in eyesight range.  And alas, we have not come into a sudden and well-timed fortune to allow me to buy an entirely new size 6 wardrobe.  I have purchased a few things, including one new pair of size 6 jeans and even these slip around the waistline as the day goes by.   Enter the perfect budget-saving solution: belts!  They're not just for empty threats of abuse from well-meaning parents raising kids in the 1970s or as punchy accessories for fashion mavens!  They actually serve a very important purpose- to hold your pants up when your waistline is small.  Or as my husband so kindly put it, "welcome to the world of skinny people." 

Little did I know that the expression "tightening my belt" could hold such a double-meaning.  In order to save my wardrobe without breaking our bank, I only had to spend a mere $6.99 at Target on a plain black belt to keep my size 8s and size 10s perfectly usable despite my shrinking waistline.   Now that's a beautiful thing...though I'll still be putting new clothes on my Christmas wishlist for Santa.