October 26th

It's weird.  Periodically since I started eating low-carb, my body has gone on a losing spree - pounds would just seem to melt off, sometimes more than 1 per day.  I figured that 150 was about where I would settle, being a weight I can recall being in my early 20s (when I paid no attention to my weight at all).  But I seem to be on a losing spree at the moment.  No real change in eating, but I'm down this morning to 148.4.  Fine, whatever.  But it makes me wonder what I weighed in high school, since I've read in a couple of places that I'll end up there.

I saw a disturbing online ad this morning - Talbots now claims that they're fitting "every woman, every size" and lists 2-24 and 0-22P as proof.  Size 22 petite - really?  How on earth could size 22 be described as "petite"?  For the record, when I was a size 18 last spring, I bought a linen sundress from Talbots.  It was a beautiful dress, in terms of fabric and construction and overall design, but I did not look good in it.  I would now (in size 10 or 12), but a size 18 body just can't look good in clothes originally designed for a size 8 or 10.  One of the reasons I've returned to sewing and am enjoying it so much is that the effort pays off with clothing that looks good on.  Not that I lost my skills as a seamstress when I was fat (and I'm a good seamstress), but no garments I could make were ever flattering, and I had a hard time visualizing styles that might look okay at that weight.  So I stopped, and went shopping and generally hated it - and settled.  I don't have to settle anymore.

But if I drop another size, having just bought new chinos and other stuff (like the blazers and the stuff from the "TupperWEAR" party), I'll be mildly cranky - sorta.