Body Fat Percentage and Old Navy

Thanks to my lovely blog pal Brenna, I decided to take my body fat percentage this afternoon after my usual 10-12 cups of water (but after an hour of light exercise, just for balance). Turns out it says I'm 28.8% body fat. That's a really big difference! Makes me feel much better, means I only have 42 lbs of fat (only, sigh). My end goal is about 127 lbs, so that means I have another 16.6 lbs of fat to lose, so I'd have to lose only fat plus another 3 lbs of muscle to get there. We'll see. Right now I'm content in the size 10's I wore before I was pregnant with the Firecracker Princess and giving my body a chance to regroup for a while as I work on the Honoring Hunger experiment.

On to Old Navy. They have caused me angst. I may be the only person who has never shopped there much, but I didn't realize that their clothes tend to run a bit small. So I bought some stuff there one day when they had the $12 jeans sale, some size 12 jeans and a pair of 10s for when those were too big. Except the 12s were too big about 4 days later, but the 10s are SO STINKING TIGHT still. What's up with that?! But anyhow, my real problem. We're going to WDW in 2 weeks, and I've been looking for shorts. I bought a pair of 10s at Old Navy about 6 weeks ago, thinking I'd be in that size by the trip. Based on the clothes that I had before the FP was born, this seemed about accurate. Two weeks ago those were feeling pretty snug still, so I bought three more pairs of shorts in a size 12. Wouldn't ya know, the 12s almost fall off. The 10s from Old Navy? Still snug, almost uncomfortably so. Silly Old Navy. And silly me for not noticing sooner! I did go back to Macy's and get some amazing Levi's denim shorts and some Bandolinos too for $5 a pair. It's ok to be slightly awed by my bargain hunting abilities. Eighty-eight perfect off, woohoo!