Week Three: Fat Pants

Today I want to talk about fat pants. Why you ask? Because I'm wearing them right now.

This past year I happened to find 10 lbs. (Yeesh). Therefore, my regular pants aren't exactly fitting right. Here's a visual:

Or something like that.

Therefore, I have retreated into the safe, and elastic world of fat pants.

Ok, admit it. You have at least one pair of fat pants. If you are unsure, here's a list of potential fat pants:

-Jeans from before you lost weight previously (If you're lucky enough for that to have happened)
-A pair of elastic pants that look like regular pants if you pull your shirt over the waist
-Old maternity pants that are still floating around
-Jeans that you got for Christmas from someone who thought you were fatter than you are, but you feel   bad getting rid of a gift, so they just sit at the bottom of your drawer gathering lint.
-Jeans that have no concept of size. i.e. they say fourteen, but fall off your 14-sized butt whenever you wear them.

The only real standard to fat pants is that you can (and at times must) wear them in public.

Usually fat pants look like this:

But when you've put on a little weight, or are bloated they fit like this:

I know what you're thinking. Super sexy.

But seriously, fat pants are like a judgmental, but very forgiving friend. It's like they say "Hey, you're fat. But that's ok. I'm just going to show everyone your bulging belly, and make your butt look as big as possible, yet make sure it looks unattractive! But other than that, you can breathe easy, and don't have to feel like a balloon stuffed into a tube sock. I hope you don't run into anyone attractive or important today!"

Aaaand that's pretty much how it goes.

You would think that would be inspiration enough to get a diet going. One might ask "Why don't you just get bigger pants?" Well, that's simple. If I were to get bigger pants, I would not only have to spend money (a precious commodity for the college student), but I would also have to admit to have gained weight and do not fit in my regular pants. And that's not really an option. I'd rather wear pants that lie and tell me they're a size 14, when they're clearly more of a 15.5 ish.

All that being said, the diet is going only okay.

I've been eating less at meals, while eating small snacks throughout the day. Try, one or two crackers just to hold me over. If I want a really mind less food, I really like sweet bell peppers. At Pick N Save you can get a big bag for about $5. Yeah, rocking the peppers. Still avoiding meat, but not ruling it out altogether yet. Although I feel like I might do some sort of cleanse in the near future. Deets coming soon.

As for exercise, I did it only 3x this week. But hey! That's 3 more times from last week! Instead of the eliptical machine, I've been doing an exercise bike. It's funny, I never even considered doing the bike before, but I've lost weight in the past, and it was before I got my driver's license and had to bike everywhere. DUH! So the bike gets me dripping sweat, and it gets me thinking "There's my fat dripping away!"

Except, that's not how that works. If it was, I'd been skinny as hell thanks to the dorms being 10 trillion degrees all the time (That's 5555555555537.778 degrees C for anyone not in the states).

i also like the bike because I can get a lot of reading done for school while working out. Hello two birds! Let me throw this one stone at you!

The core workout is not going as well. I just can't get myself motivated to actually DO it. Boo.

Alright, I gotta wrap it up! This week the goal is to do 45 mins of cardio 3x, and keep track of the food I eat. Sloooooowly working my way to actual calorie counting, but now trying to just make good portion decisions.

Question for the people of the internet: Is it really that weird to just eat a whole pepper if they're the little ones? I've heard yes and no, but I want to hear your opinion! Feel free to FB me: https://www.facebook.com/LivLifeQuinn, or follow me on twitter: https://twitter.com/OliviaLudwiczak.

Have a great week, and tune in next Tuesday for more diet blues.