This is about weight loss, so if you're not interested, feel free to move along the blog road. Thank you.


I'm having a Happy Friday - seeing results from the South Beach Diet. Most of us perennial dieters have a portion of the closet where we keep things that used to fit, or almost fit but don't look right, or just plain hang there and taunt us. You know what I mean. So I'm getting dressed this morning, reaching for one of my usual pairs of jeans, which I've noticed are getting a bit baggy on me - these are the standard middle-aged woman's comfy-cut, straight leg, basic Lee jeans, not the most flattering things in the world, but they're functional. Anyway, something made me go to that section of the closet and pull out some slim-fit, boot-cut, low rise Levis that DID NOT FIT before, just to SEE.... I didn't expect much. They never did fit - I bought them in a fit of optimism without trying them on first, because I was on Weight Watchers then and I was sure I was going to lose weight, and because the price was way too good to pass up - like nineteen bucks, as I recall - and then couldn't stuff my big butt into them. There was a good three inches of my hips between button and buttonhole, you know? I cursed my big butt and stuck them in too small section of the closet, where they have been hanging for, oh, a year, at least. I've lost track.


I am wearing those jeans right now, and they not only fit perfectly now but are wonderfully comfy, with a little room to spare at the waistband! It's time to retire the dumpy loose-cut jeans and start wearing something with a little STYLE again. Whooo-hooo!!!!!

Knitting notes - I'm so close to done on the Xanax sweater, I may finish it this evening. I'm not sure how the stitch count at the back of the neck is going to work out, though - I'm using a raglan pattern I ran on my Sweater Wizard software, which means it comes with no real notes or explanation, just basic directions. I've made a lot of raglan sweaters in my day, so I understand how it works, but somehow I think I'm going to run out of raglan decreases before I hit the targeted back-of-the-neck stitch count, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. Not a big deal, the sweater is fine and it's not far off, if it's off at all - maybe I'm just imagining things, and when I hit that last decrease row it will all work out.