4XLT

Back in high school I was right at the threshold of wearing normal sized clothes you could buy in stores: 2XL shirts and size 42 pants. In the seven years since, I ballooned up to my highest of 4XL shirts and size 50-54 (depending on the cut) pants back in January.

Too bad none of them fit any more. The 4XLs look like ponchos, and even the 3XLs are too poofy.

In a fit of ill-fitting, my pants are falling down and this shirt looks like a poncho clothing anger, I hit up the malls this weekend to buy some new clothes. And what a good weekend to do it, as I stumbled into some sweet sales. Two shirts for $7, a sweet DKNY shirt from Macy’s marked 50% off, and two pair of khakis for $20 a pop. Not too bad.

But do you want to know what the best part is?

The shirts were all 2XLs. The pants? Purchased in the “normal” part of the store, as size 44s.

So, I faced a bit of a problem back home: what am I going to do with all the fat guy clothes I’ve got? To make room in my closet, I packed up some of the 4XL’s a few weeks ago. But now, it was time to clear everything else out that I don’t ever plan on wearing again (because I will never be that obese again).

So, I hauled everything that was too big out of my closet to take to Goodwill. Here’s what I came up with:

1 suit
2 blazers
1 pair of dress slacks
2 khakis
2 pair of athletic shorts
2 cargo shorts
4 jeans
13 shirts

Now, there’s so much more room for me to enjoy the XXL clothes. But, I gotta keep working hard to hit my goal of 310 by November 12th. I’ve totally missed my 320 by October 12th goal and am still stuck in the low 320s, but I’m going hard. Workouts have been regular, again, and my nutrition has been on track.

Man, I wonder what it will be like to buy size 40 or 38 pants and wear only an XL?