Hi John,

Nice to meet you

First off, let me say that because I am such a casual person and work from
my home, it is really easy for me to wear track pants or track pants type
material shorts with the stretchy elastic waist. I don't go out much and
when I do, I usually don't have any need to dress up. I've avoided buying
jeans or other pants because they were difficult to find. So I basically
lived in stretchies constantly! Not proud of it, but that's what I did.

When I started WW back in June 2005, I was wearing a pant size of 58 that
the tailor had let out a bit. My belt was a 60 and I was on the second
notch from the end.

By Christmas, I had lost 50lbs I finally had to breakdown and buy a new pair
of pants that were a size 52. Lucky for me I still had an old belt around
the house that was in pretty good shape.

By the beginning of last April, I had lost my closest friend to colon cancer
and I was asked to be a pall-bearer. I tried on my 58's and it was a joke!
I went to the tailor and he fitted me with a 50 waist!......it felt very
good. I was now down approx. 65 lbs.

A few weeks ago, I actually started to get compliments from people about the
fact that it was now obvious that I was losing weight. This has been
actually very encouraging since up until now, it's been really difficult to
tell that I've lost any weight due to the fact that I have been so
drastically obese for so many years.

We went out and purchased some new stretchy shorts and guess what? - instead
of being XXL, they were only L !!!! very happy about this.

Last week was the most uplifting situation since I started this journey - I
actually purchased a pair of zip up, button up pair of shorts - size 48
right off the rack in Wal-Mart!!! I was so ecstatic about this! My weight
loss today is approx. 77lbs, but I think my body is starting to tighten up
now, so the results of the weight loss are starting to show.

Spending money on clothes for me has only ever been out of necessity, but
now I'm actually starting to enjoy the fact that I had to face the
realization of purchasing new clothes!

As soon as I get down to a 42, I plan on buying a nice pair of jeans! That
will be awesome!

Eddie
Weight June05-359lbs
Current Weight-282.2lbs
Loss to date=76.8lbs
Goal Weight-180lbs

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Thanks Doug! A few people were worried about you because you hadn't
posted
in a while. It's nice to be missed eh? LOL!!!

Next goal?.............80, then 90, then 100...............um...........a
46" waist, then 44", then 42", then 40"....then, then, then.......hehehe,
the list of goals are so long Doug!........I'll just take them one at a
time
and stay focused.



Congrats Eddie.

Now for a curious question. How often now do you have to buy new clothes?

After dropping 45 pounds I went shopping with the wife and spent about $250
just on pants. From a waist of 40 to 34. The 34 was a tad tight at first,
but now fits comfortable.

I threw out all my size 38 and up pants. Kept someone of my old 36's.

Now I am up to 53 pounds gone and the 34's are getting real comfortable.
Just don't want to have to buy more again because now I need shirts.