I'm not as fat as I thought I was . . .

but I'm not anywhere close to where I was five years ago.

Interesting how that works. I got out all of my summer clothes today from the attic and put them away. It was quite an interesting experience since I didn't even get them out last year. For those of you who don't know, I was pregnant last summer and gave birth in July so there was no need to even try to find those things last year. So almost two years and a pregnancy it has been since I have seen these clothes. I remembered many of them and some were surprises, partly because they were haunting me from summers past. How long do you keep clothes in hopes you will once again squeeze into them? Yea yea I know the old six months or two years rules but really, lets be realistic. There are a lot of good and cute clothes in there. I would love to be able to wear them again and some for the first time because they were purchased in the hope that I would be thinner the next summer. Ha! I was encouraged that pretty much everything from two summers ago still fit. From three or four summers ago, not so much. So in some ways I was feeling really good about myself and in others I was feeling a bit portly.

So this is what I decided to do - Clothes that were less than half my age went back in the box. Clothes that fit but you could see every nook and cranny on my fanny went in the bureau behind the dog bed. And the stuff that fit went in the closet. It is April, I think I could be comfortably in the clothes in the bureau behind the dog if I lost ten pounds. There are a lot of months of hot heat before they go back in the attic, I should be able to do ten pounds over the next four months, shouldn't I? (yes, yes, I know I need to do more etc etc but I think this is a possible goal. Heck, I lost ten pounds two ounces in a matter of minutes last July . . .) So that is my goal, by August sometime, lose ten pounds so I can wear the clothes that will be covered in dog fur by then in September, just in time to put them away.

Also, something I contemplated while trying to squeeze into a few things today - Does the attic heat shrink your clothes? Especially over two years? I think it might, maybe there should be a study, or maybe there shouldn't and I will just say that it does . . .