That Satisfying Feeling....

celestial

Sometime last year I took a t-shirt out of my wardrobe, tried it on, nice t-shirt but there was no way I could wear it - flabby gut wouldn't let me - literally was no way I could wear it with any dignity so into the bottom drawer in my press it went. I'd say that was sometime round last summer.

Pulled it out of the same drawer at the weekend and tried it on. Not only does it fit me perfectly, it is actually BAGGY on me:D Sweeet. I have been a bit frustrated with my fat loss over the past week or so but that really brings it home how much I've lost. Lying in bed I can also actually feel my abdominals, that is all new to me!!

The takeaway message to anyone burning the flab is it is easy to get down or frustrated watching the scales. Instead, these are the kind of things that you should look to when assessing your progress - I am forever trying to check in the mirror if I am leaner than a couple weeks before but it really is like watching the grass grow - the t-shirt test is the equivalent to a relative seeing you after 5 or 6 months or so and remarking 'have you lost weight?'

:)

Khannie

Congrats. Had a similar experience with jeans a few months ago myself. The "ah sure I'll never fit in them again" pair. Very satisfying altogether.

BossArky

Same things happens to me with jeans and suits. I need to maintain a wardrobe of about 3 different waist sizes depending on whether it is summer (cardio), winter (weights) or somewhere in between.

How Strange

Had the same feeling myself yesterday. I tried on something I hadn't worn since Christmas and it was so much looser on me.

It's that feeling which keeps you on the straight and narrow when you are thinking 'why should I bother, it makes no difference anyway'.

cavanmaniac

Yeah I bought a teeshirt just by looking at the size label only, I'd bought a few before so figured no need to try it on, lo and behold I got home and it was more a size medium than large.

It was fecking well painted on to me so it was, slouchy paunch spilling out, moobs, the works. Back into the wardrobe it went and then about a year ago I was doing a major spring clean and was just about to bin it when I thought that surely there could be no better sign of gym progress than the fit of this teeshirt on me.

I lashed it on and it was perfect. I'm still softer than I'd like all over but you wouldn't notice it half as much as when I tried it on first.

Good for you celestial, keep up the good work.

I also have a luminous pink leotard I bought in 1983, I'm determined to wear it to my sister's wedding next July.

Yeah right!!

rubadub

celestial wrote: »

frustrated watching the scales..... t-shirt test is the equivalent to a relative seeing you after 5 or 6 months or so and remarking 'have you lost weight?'

:)

Very true, especially if you are lifting since your weight can be stable or increase while losing fat. I am having to wear a belt with 32" jeans now. I remember going into sales when only 30,32, and then 38 40" jeans were left and thinking "what lad has a 30" waist why do they even stock them" but I did fit into a pair recently -(though my measured waist is not 30", more like 33").

I have also put loads of new holes in my belt over the last few years, at one stage I had to cut a huge bit off it since it was too long. Though my weight has been around 12 stone for ages, just under at the moment.

SUNGOD

rubadub wrote: »

I have also put loads of new holes in my belt over the last few years, at one stage I had to cut a huge bit off it since it was too long. Though my weight has been around 12 stone for ages, just under at the moment.

went through the same thing with the belt ,wonderful feeling.if anyone saw me they would think i was mad singing away to myself boring holes in a belt with a screw gun and being delighted doing it. that and someone giving you a second look and saying " you look different, have you lost weight" make it all worth while