Day 7, 8, 9, 10: Still at It

I've been lazy in my posts for the past couple months, but I started wearing my jeans again since it's fall and below 90 degrees outside.   

I was going to do a post in September called "Lose Weight or Lose the Jeans" since that's what it seems to have come down to.  It's amazing how a few extra pounds will punish your self image when trying to fit into your skinny jeans.  The only upside I guess, if this is an upside, is that I now know exactly where I store extra weight: the trunk and spare tire.  Squeezing the two round hams I'm carrying in the trunk into my jeans was tough enough.  But once I did get my pants over the moon, buttoning them was another humiliating adventure.  Let's just say I had extra dough hanging over the cake pan, to mix metaphors.

There's a good explanation for the extra baggage.  I had a triathlon toward the end of September to compete in and needed to gain back the five pounds I had lost during the season.  So I started on a one-month weight gain program to make the Clydesdale weight of 200 pounds.  Gaining weight while training for triathlons is not an easy thing to do.  You basically have to double the amount of calories you take in everyday.   My diet consisted of my food (just more of it), plus any food left over on my wife's plate, plus three beers per night.  All topped off with some ice cream to end the night. 

Getting back to the jeans.  Over the past month, I've ridden my bike in them.  Not the easiest thing to do with tight, inflexible pants.  I've worn them around the house.  They aren't anywhere close to relaxing.  And I've worn them two days in a row, all day, to see if that will loosen them up.  It didn't and they don't get any more comfortable as the day goes on.  They just get more irritating. 

This is me losing faith.  I'm not sure how long I can keep this up.  I want them to soften up - at the very least.

Comments

[dipti]

Keep the faith.

You might have seen this already, but a friend of mine sent me this and I thought of you -

http://www.nudiejeans.com/start.php

PS the same friend bought 'virgin denim' jeans two years ago and said that they finally have 'loosened their vice grip' on his essential bits.

[Clay Parker Jones]

Hah. These posts are great when you read them back to back. I too am a Clydesdale, and at this point a former triathlete, and one who struggles with the desire to have good denim. I have not made the struggling plunge into mold-to-fit raw denim but am thinking seriously about it now...