Today, after two months of carefully watching my diet, eating healthily and generally not stuffing my gullet with cakes, snacks and two dinners, washed down with 6 pints of lager, I've just tried on a pair of my old 32" waist jeans (from less porky days)... and they fit!
As in, I can do them up. And sit down in them. And put things in the pockets! Truly marvellous!
Whilst I still have a few lbs to go before I'm genuinely back to my "fighting weight" (I'd be lying if I didn't say there is a little overspill, but I had far worse on my old, 'generous' 34" jeans before I started.
The goal is truly in sight now. Hurrah!
This blog post is brought to you by the Boots Meal Deal King Prawn Noodle Salad, Cheese and Onion Snack-a-Jacks and Diet Red Bull.
Oh, and about 400 pints* of Tesco Own-Brand Low Calorie American Ginger Ale, my beer-substitute.
*I just worked this out to be about right. Scary