SV and NSV

After 11 weeks on MFP, I've lost 16 pounds. (Over 27 since Christmas.) This week I experienced a scale victory and a non-scale victory.

1) This week I brought my BMI down to 29.86. I am officially now no longer obese, merely overweight! This was actually my goal when I originally started MFP, but I certainly am not going to stop now. Six more pounds and I'm down to what I weighed when my first kid was born, nine years ago. I think I'll make that by Halloween. Once I reach my "pre-baby" weight I'll probably go for at least another 5 pounds. Right now I weigh less than I have in seven years and I'm very pleased about that.

2) About five years ago I went up one pants size (36" to 38"). This was supposed to be temporary, but eventually reached a point where all of the trousers hanging in my closet were 38" (and earlier in the year some were getting pretty tight, making me wonder if might need to upgrade to 40"). A few weeks ago I found a box in the closet that contained five or six pairs of Dockers, all 36" waist, all virtually unworn and some still with the tags on. Today I decided to try one on for work, and it fit fine! Looser, in fact, than my larger pants were at the beginning the year. I'm wearing it now and am very happy about it.

Bonus: I just saved over $200 now that I don't have to buy a bunch of new pants!

Double bonus: I have a 29" inseam, and for some reason I could only find 38" trousers with a 30" inseam. So most of my pants were frayed at the bottom. But all of these new/old ones are the correct inseam! I've been wearing baggy, frayed trousers for the past two weeks since school started, but no more!