{"id":582,"date":"2012-11-10T18:58:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T10:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lifebod.com\/?p=582"},"modified":"2012-11-10T18:58:02","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T10:58:02","slug":"when-its-time-to-change-your-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/2012\/11\/10\/when-its-time-to-change-your-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"When It’s Time To Change Your Pants"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I decided to lose weight, nobody told me that one of the dilemmas I would face is that my clothes would fall off at some point. I mean it’s not like I don’t know this, but when you’re going through it, it’s not like you expect your favorite pants to get too big for your shrinking bum. Like I shared in a previous post, I am still the same person even though I lost all this weight.
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\nBut one recent day, my beloved chirpy aunt started to laugh, referring to my shorts as “baggy-style” while walking behind me. <\/p>\n

I told her they’re not meant to be baggy, and that it’s something that happens when one loses 35 lbs! She couldn’t stop laughing to herself. Whatever, I brushed it off.<\/p>\n

So today I wore baggy pants out again because it didn’t really register why she was laughing at me that day. Passing by some of the mirrors at Suria Sabah, I caught a glimpse of how funny I looked. <\/p>\n

I looked like a child in adult’s clothing, that’s how ridiculous I looked!<\/h3>\n

That’s it. I’m going in to FOS to buy me a pair of shorts that fit!<\/p>\n

I looked around the racks, and tried to look for my regular Asian XL sizes, but they didn’t look right. Thinking that I would probably be an Asian size L now, I looked for those instead. But looking at the pants, they looked like they’d fall off too!<\/p>\n

Finally, I found a pair of shorts that looked like they’d fit. I looked for the label to see the size (just in case my eyes played tricks on me), and to my shock, it read US size 6.
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US SIZE 6? No freaking way!<\/h3>\n

Now let me tell you how that felt. The last time I shopped for a pair of pants, I was a US 10, (UK 12\/AU 14). Maybe I was being delusional I thought. I mean I lost weight, but it sure doesn’t feel like it was enough to jump from a US 10 to a US 6 in 8 months (UK 8\/AU 10). You only read stuff like that from Biggest Loser contestants.
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I don’t even remember ever being a size 6 in my life. But yea, okay, sometimes FOS gets the sizes wrong and it’s best to just find a couple of more items and head to the fitting room. I took a few other size 6s in different designs and headed to the fitting room.<\/p>\n

First of all, I could zip and button ALL THE SIZE 6 pants up, even though admittedly some looked a bit too snug for comfort. But man, let me tell you. Fitting into size 6 pants? INCREDIBLE!<\/p>\n

Anyhow, I decided to get just one pair of shorts. Yes, it was a size 6. I still have to pinch myself.<\/p>\n

When I got home, I took off baggy pants to compare it with the new one I bought and here’s what the difference looks like.
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\nI still can’t wrap my head around how I managed to squeeze my bum into size 6 shorts. So I guess my advice to you is, don’t try to obsess over what size you are. Just work out and eat right. One day, you’ll just fit into a pair of size 6 pants without knowing how the heck you did it.<\/p>\n

To motivate you (even though I already shared it on Facebook), here are some leggy shots from last Sunday. Even elephant trunks can get toned yes?
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My secret? Skip, run, squat, lunge!<\/p>\n

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve got to go put on those pair of shorts one more time to believe it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I decided to lose weight, nobody told me that one of the dilemmas I would face is that my clothes would fall off at some point. I mean it’s not like I don’t know this, but when you’re going through it, it’s not like you expect your favorite pants to get too big for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motivation","category-shopping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifebod.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}