So Margie bought me some Size 36s, and of the three pair, two actually fit. Comfortably. Ye gods.<\/p>\n
Of course, one problem with wearing pants that fit is that the pockets get remarkably small\/tight. Which makes carrying around a wallet and keys and a PDA difficult when you don’t keep any of the above in your back pockets.<\/p>\n
I know — tears of sympathy are welling up in your eyes at my hardship here.<\/p>\n
I don’t know that I’m ready to announce that 36 is the Target Clothing Size for Holiday Purchases (for one thing, I haven’t lost any weight, so I don’t know where the waist change has gone), but I am willing to tentatively revel in having dropped three pants sizes since March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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