Tight Pants Update

I am now five days away from wearing my tight pants and last night I had a little ray of hope.  I tried on the pants as I do every night.  Now, I know by the end of the day, we are at our fullest, widest and heaviest so it seems that trying them on after a full day of eating would be discouraging.  Believe me, it is!!  But, I try them on at night because I will be wearing them at night and I want a realistic gage of what I am dealing with.
 

So, last night I tugged them on and sighed deeply.  Still not as loose as I wish they were but, at least I can button them!  I don’t think my ability to button is from weight loss though.  I think it’s from wearing them while I bounce on my exercise ball!!  Hey, whatever works!

I pulled and tugged and tucked in my tummy and then I realized that the pant’s pockets were sown shut. I hadn’t noticed this hopeful fact before.  I scooted to the kitchen with the tight pants constricting my every move and opened the kitchen drawer containing the scissors.  While the pants were stretched across my hips, I slipped one of the blades between the pant and the pocket to rip the stitching.  With every stitch, my breathing became slightly less labored.  Finally one pocket was free and I think I got about a quarter of an inch!

So, with renewed hope I followed the same procedure on the other pocket.   Rip, breathe, rip, breathe, rip…exhale!  When the final stitch on the final pocket was removed, I had virtually a half inch more room in my pants and significantly more lung capacity! Whoo-hoo!

I marched back to my bedroom and noticed my walk was a little easier.  I went straight to my dresser drawer, opened it with glee and grabbed a handful of Dark Chocolate M&M’s to celebrate!!

I swallowed the last M&M and panicked.  “What am I doing?!” I screeched.  I am so nervous about these pants that I am stress eating and making my problem worse!  So, I once again, pulled the jacket off the hanger and tried it on over the pants just to make sure it was still long enough to obscure the pants.  It was.  Sweet consolation!  Why I think the jacket will get shorter just shows my growing paranoia and obsession with these pants!!

Five more days…five more days!

Comments

[Shelley]

You are so funny - I never in a million years would have thought about cutting the pockets open to create more room - now that is genius lol