Today’s Weight: 386.6 lbs
Yesterday’s Water: 156 oz
Bumped back over 385 again, alas.
In any case, that puts my loss at 13.4 pounds, averaging to 2.68 pounds a week. And down from last week’s measurement by an unknown quantity since I was unable to weigh in. But down 2.9 pounds from two weeks ago, in any case.
One of the problems with being this size is that it becomes extremely hard to find clothes in your size. There are certain few retailers that have a big and tall section that goes up to this size, but generally they only have a limited stock of sizes beyond a certain point – so if you show up when new stock is put out, you can find something that fits, but it’s a lot more dicey the rest of the time. Seeing as I needed two dress shirts, and time was short, we ordered two in the correct size from Amazon.
In the past, I’ve see a lot of complaints from women about the wide variety of sizes that you get when purchasing clothes. It’s just as bad for men, I assure you, except that unlike size numbers (“Size 2”, “Size 8”, “Size 16″), many men’s clothes actually use real dimensions (for example, 56″X34″ pants are supposed to be 56″ at the waist, and 34” long) to describe them. In theory, this should make it easier to shop for men’s clothes. You simply buy something with the correct dimensions for your dimensions. In practice this doesn’t actually work at all. I purchased two button down shirts in the exact same sizing. There really aren’t any meaningful style differences between the two. They are single-color, button down dress shirts with essentially an identical collar. They are admittedly different brands, but if the sizing is based on actual dimensions, this shouldn’t matter.
Except it totally did – one shirt fits nicely and the other one is dramatically too tight. If the chest and length measurements are supposed to be the same, this shouldn’t be possible. The answer is, of course, that the measurements don’t actually reflect reality. Which you’d think would be dumb to do, but it’s what they do. Ah well. Anyway, we ordered another shirt that is the same brand and a different color as the one that fit nicely.
(How mad will I be if it doesn’t fit?)