Someone finally noticed today: I ran into someone I haven't seen for a month and a half, and the first words out of her mouth were to remark on the fact that I've lost weight. So it is noticeable! I'd wondered...

Back in July when I wrote about my uterus' treachery, I lost my appetite. For about three weeks. While not a good thing, it did help me put some distance between me and my favorite food group: breads and pasta. Oh how I love bread... but then I didn't. I started eating fruit for lunch instead of a sandwich because it didn't turn my fragile desire to eat into nausea. Eschewing bread and pasta unless served it actually became a habit, and one I'm on month three of maintaining. Fruit is honestly as filling as a sandwich, isn't that weird?

Besides that I decided weeks ago to do two other good things for my body too: 1. exercise more. 2. get an inhaler, which I'd been in denial about needing. The latter is just good for me, but the first combined with eating less empty carbs have had a real effect on my waistline. I don't weigh myself (it's been about a year since I did so last), but I've lost a couple inches off my waist. So far. I'd like to lose more.

 

I always have said that I'd starve to death if I gave up carbs, and though it's not true, I must have known on some level they were my problem, huh? Even more so than sweets, since I haven't cut those out of my diet as much.

While shopping for new pants and jeans I was pleased to discover that everyone's 8s fit pretty well, though some a bit loose in the legs (who decided that baggy legs in slacks is a good thing?) A few manufacturers 6s fit again, too which is even more surprising. I thought I left 6s behind forever when my hips finished growing a few years back. It's a nice surprise.

 

Anyway... How often do most people weigh themselves? I've never enjoyed doing so, partly because it makes me feel bad even though I try to remind myself that muscle weighs more than fat, and I'm pretty muscular for a chick; that happens after years of physically demanding jobs and do-it-yourself projects besides. I'm wondering if people, like the one above who by the end of our conversation did also ask how much I've lost, will think I'm being coy to say I don't know. It's true, but somehow I wonder if people will believe that.