The Shorts

So I have these cute Roxy jean shorts that I bought years and years ago and realized that they were a little short and showed a little too much of the cottage cheese on the back of my thighs, they got worn maybe once or twice. So they got tossed into a drawer and forgotten about. Until I was getting ready to move and was going through my clothes. I found them and tried them on and couldn't even button them. My hip fat bulged out over the top. Apparently I had gained a few pounds since their purchase because I didn't remember them being that tight before. I was tempted to give them away to Goodwill and just calling it a lost cause, but something in me said "NO! I will fit these shorts again one day, AND I will look GOOD in them!"

Without any real plans of accomplishing this goal (as happens to many people with a closet full of "maybe one day they will fit again" clothes), my adorable Roxy jean shorts sat in the drawer for yet another couple of years. I never even bothered trying them on since I knew it would just make me feel bad about myself. For about 3 years they sat at the bottom of the drawer again, waiting to be worn.

Then I started working out again. I felt great and knew I had lost some weight. I remembered my skinny shorts and I dug them out of the drawer and put them on. I could button them again! I was still not quite to the point of wearing them in public though. The legs were still tight and it made the flabby stuff on my inner thighs stick out more than normal. I still had the cottage cheese on the back of my thighs which was the reason for their original banishment to the drawer. I didn't want to give up hope though, so back in the drawer they went. Until today.

I pulled them out again to see how they fit now that I have started P90X. and they did fit better than ever, I even wore them to the grocery store for a test run! They still seemed a bit too short for me to wear comfortably without feeling self-conscious about my fat though. I noticed myself trying to adjust them and pulling them lower to cover the flab every so often. So I came home and took them off and decided that this was my goal and what a perfect way to gauge my results!

So now my goal is to not only fit into my skinny jeans, but to look AWESOME in them! Lose the flabby stuff and the cottage cheese forever and be able to wear booty shorts to my heart's content and not feel self-conscious about it! What do you think?!