I don't measure because...

[Peytonn]

I can never measure the same way twice.... it's so easy to mess up.. the tape only has to be SLIGHTLY out of position from the time before.. and it's all wrong...

I could NEVER do it right.. (not having a waist doesn't help)...

but thighs.. short of making a grid with a permanent marker.. how can you possibly know where to measure each time???¿¿¿

[Brook]

Re: I don't measure because...

This is going to sound totally screwy, Peytonn, but I have a mole on my right thigh and a scar on my left that I use as a guide to make sure I'm taking them in the same place.

I use a freckle on my left bicep and my right? Heck, I'm just lucky if I can get the tape measure around my right bicep without hurting myself because I'm soooooo right handed. LOL

So that's my solution - I use "land marks". LOL

~Brook

[Peytonn]

Re: I don't measure because...

no.... actually that makes perfect sense... it's a stationary thing that's not moving...

I know I'm about half way in to this thing.... but I know it will take longer to do the SECOND half than the first... so maybe I'll try to do something like that....

I KNOW I'm losing inches... because I can see it... but I don't have any idea how many...

maybe I should try to begin now.... for the rest of the way..

I know I'm giving away some pants... (those pull on with the draw string crop pants that I wear to school).... some of them are so big and baggy they are just not ok anymore.. (and I like baggy clothes... being a middle school teacher.. I don't want kids to gawk at any more body parts than necessary)....

but even the armholes of some of my shirts are so big, I'm wearing tanks underneath so the underwear doesn't show....

I should try to measure.... I just don't want to be disappointed... but I see so many here having great success losing inches....

as the pounds slow down for me... it might be a motivator of sorts..