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My boobs are getting smaller!! Some people would think of that as a bad thing but I personally could not be happier. Let me first explain how I came to find out this piece of valuable information. Today, while being completely bored out of mind at work and having absolutely nothing to do, I decided to give myself a bra fitting. There was nobody in the store and I was just standing there so I figured why not? I took a tape measure that was lying around and proceeded to measure my chest to determine my bra size (thankfully nobody showed up while I was doing this otherwise it would have been slightly awkward). Turns out, my band size is now 38. I stood there completely shocked. I even measured myself twice to make sure I wasn't wrong (I wasn't). I stood there in disbelief because I was measured for a bra a few months back and I was definitely 40 inches around. Now, I'm in between 37 1/2 and 38 inches. This is the first time that I've realized I'm losing actual inches off my body along with the weight.

When I started working out back in October, I decided to track my progress. It started off with weighing myself once a week but at the beginning of November I decided to measure various parts of my body as well. I never wanted to be discouraged that I wasn't losing tons of weight since I knew I'd be building muscle at the same time so I figured keeping track of the actual inches might make me feel better. At the beginning of the month I would pull out my tape measure and see what progress I had made. Well, I only ended up tracking November and December because by January and February I wasn't motivated to do much of anything. Naturally after my bra fitting this afternoon I had to come home and measure the rest of me to see what was happening. I have actually lost a couple of inches in a few places. I'm down at least an inch everywhere including my legs and arms (which I was pretty confident would never get any smaller).

I realize that I've lost 20 pounds and dropped about a size/size and half in my clothes but I never connected how that translated to my actual body dimensions. The whole thing just seems very surreal to me. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't stoked about my findings today. It's good to know that my body really is changing in a way that can be quantified (clothing sizes don't count quiet as much since those change from store to store). And while I may not be moving at a Biggest Loser pace, if I keep going at the rate I'm going now in one year I'll be 40 pounds down and pretty damn close to not being considered overweight. So if smaller boobs is the price I have to pay in order to not die of a heart attack at 55 well then I will take it (besides, my boobs were not all that big to begin so it's not a huge deal).