Smaller clothes shopping For the first time in my LIFE...

I have NEVER... In the entirety of my life... Ever had to shop for a SMALLER size.

Tomorrow, I go shopping for a smaller swim suit.

I've been gaining weight fairly steadily from the time I got pregnant with my first....

I've been tracking the pounds, 20 lost, but the numbers don't really hit home. They're just numbers, and only 20 is daunting when that leaves 90 to go.

Since decided that enough was enough, my choice workout has been swimming, mostly because I am large breasted, and most other forms of cardio when they don't make sports bras in your cup size... hurts... And swimming burns a tremendous amount of calories, and uses the entire body. (And because I REALLY REALLY like swimming anyway)

As of my last swim, I realized that if I lost any more weight, the swim suit I have will cease to do it's job of covering certain aspects of my anatomy, and not because I've gotten to big, but because it's gotten that baggy! (It was TIGHT when this started too)

Other NSVs... with only 20 lbs lost, and much more telling....

While I can't comfortably wear them, and I can barely breathe in them, I can button my jeans, and I haven't worn jeans in 3 years. (I hit size 22, and REFUSED to buy bigger jeans at that point, and switched to slacks and more comfortable options)

Child's pose in yoga doesn't squish my stomach into my legs to the point where I have to modify it just so I can BREATHE AT ALL... I can do child's pose.. unmodified.. and breathe doing it. (the other poses are getting easier too, but that was the big one for me)

My clothes are starting to get gappy.

I had to scoot the seat of the car forward one notch because there's less of a butt against the seat.

I've gone from a slow paced butterfly stroke for a half hour to using that just to warm up and cool down, and other strokes for an hour. Now it's backstroke for 15 minutes, size stroke for 15, crawl/freestyle/whatever they call it now for 15, and breast stroke for 15. Now working to getting more laps in during each of those 15... and MAYBE cutting the side stroke down to 10, and picking up another 5 on the crawl stroke...

I'm taking motrin much less often for back and other joint aches than I have in YEARS. I was worried about addiction on this one, until I realized I took motrin twice in one day yesterday, but that it was the first time I'd needed any in a few weeks.

At first, 20 pounds when I had 90 left was oddly discouraging in that "so far to go" sort of way... but with all the other effects at JUST 20 POUNDS, I'm excited to see what the next 20 will bring.