I’ve been losing weight for a while now, as I’ve posted about a couple of times. Today was another landmark. For the last few years, I’ve been wearing the same size/style of jeans – Old Navy Loose 36×30. I typically wore these pretty low, beneath my belly. I’ve noticed over the last while that I could pull my jeans up higher and that I needed to cinch my belt tighter and tighter. I was also told that my butt was disappearing in the jeans and that the style was not flattering. That brings us to today.

We headed over to Old Navy in Roseville and I tried on a couple of different styles of jeans. The first style I grabbed was a boot cut, followed by a straight fit, both in a 34″ waist. As a backup, I grabbed the same style as always, but one size down, as with the others. First I tried on the straight fit, which fit pretty well. Next up was the boot cut, which fit even better. I emerged from the fitting room and asked my wife how they looked. She approved and so I was sold. The fact that they were on sale for $19 didn’t hurt either.

So there we have it, a new pair of jeans in a smaller size and a much more flattering style. This is the first of many indications that I’m shrinking around the middle. I’ll be sure to update with any other indicators, mostly because I enjoy bragging about it.

I’ve decided I’m going to post daily status updates over on my tumblr site. These will include a daily weigh in, plus what I’ve eaten that day and a photo. I may at some point turn the photos into a time-lapse video, but I haven’t really gotten that far yet. Today was the first update and I’m going to try to keep updating for as long as I can. I’ll also be embedding these updates from tumblr on this site in a sidebar. That pretty much sums it up. Come back every day if you want to see what I’ve eaten and what I look like that day. I’m sure it will be thrilling.

A few weeks ago, I decided that I had finally had enough of my expanded waistline and decided that it was time to do something about it. I read about the slow carb diet and figured it was worth giving it a shot. I tried it for about 3 weeks and it worked quite well. My biggest problem was discipline and how to get something quick and easy for lunch. Pretty much everything that I don’t make myself contains bread or rice (and often comes with a side of a potato product). Mexican and Mexican style food (Chipotle, El Pollo Loco) is pretty easy to modify by replacing rice with beans and forgoing the tortillas. The biggest pitfall in this case is the chips, which I have a very hard time resisting. I lost a few pounds by doing this, but have decided to change tactics for a while. There’s a good chance that I’ll return to this in the future, but for now it was a successful experiment.