Are you a Viking?

mgreenham
mgreenham Posts: 40 Member
in Motivation and Support
So my first real NSV came in the form of dropping from a size 48 pant to 44...

Back in the days of the Vikings, leaders would take their troops ashore then push their ships back out to sea while on fire. Legend has it, it was to motivate the troops by making it abundantly apparent there is no way home.

How many take the Viking approach when you lose a size or two in your clothes? Bundle them up and donate, burn, otherwise get rid of? In the past after dropping more sizes then this I never got rid of the "Fat" clothes. I wonder, if I didn't have those buried deep in the closet would I have maintained a better attitude/lifestyle.

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  • firemanfive0
    firemanfive0 Posts: 228 Member
    done that....everything that was too big has been bagged up and gone! it was given to friends and family that were my size for them to look thru and anything they did not want went to Goodwill.
  • Shikonneko
    Shikonneko Posts: 187 Member
    I kept one of my largest pairs of pants and tacked them up in their full, awful glory next to my motivation board. So I can see what I came from and where I'm going to. Just a thought.
  • Duck_Puddle
    Duck_Puddle Posts: 3,237 Member
    I kept one pair of my largest pants. I am a Viking with the rest. First, I have a tiny house with almost no closets, I really don't have the room to store 5 wardrobes (I'm down 5 sizes). Second, if I don't clear them out, I have no idea what I actually have. I played a concert this weekend and had to make an emergency stop on the way to get black pants as the ones I thought I had were 2 sizes too big. I will generally hold onto the size I just shrank out of for a few weeks-not because I plan to get bigger, but us girl-types tend to bloat up a bit a few days a month (at least I do) and you don't want to be tryin to squeeze into something those days-comfy is better. After that-the fat clothes go to goodwill.

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