Inert Ramblings

All of my pants are completely falling off and I’ve punched an additional three holes in my belt over the past few months…it’s quite amusing. I made a conscious decision not to make any wardrobe purchases until I was sure that I was finished losing weight. I already have a whole new virtual wardrobe because, not only can I wear clothes that I haven’t fit into for years, but I also have dozens of tshirts and polos that I’ve received free at hacker and geek conventions that I can finally fit into!

The pants situation, however, is still rather grave, so I decided to pick up a few pairs of shorts last night just to get an idea about my size. Before I started losing weight I was what I like to call a fat man’s 46. Basically, my waist was 48 or 50 but my hips were 46…and I was one of those guys who would wear his pants on the hips below the paunch rather than go for the “old man” look and wear absolutely huge pants halfway up to the chest. Because of this, my pants were at least small enough to keep around for a long time during my weight loss.

The 46 pants slowly moved from the hips to the waist, then started to fall off. So I purchased some 44 pants and shorts. Those have worked fine for a few months but, last night, I decided to pick up some more cheap shorts to tide me over. I went with 42…and it was a mistake. Those are falling off as well! Looks like it’s time to return them for 40 and completely retire all the pairs of 46 that are now wasting space in my drawers!

I have no idea what size I’ll finally end up at…I’m just happy that, until then, I can suck it up and buy cheap WalMart clothes until I can redo my entire wardrobe with some of the trendy garbage that’s floating around at the mall. I mean, I do work for a company whose target demographic is teenieboppers!