12/29/09 -Week 7

Nothing to report. I am still not sleeping in it. Therefore I am still not making any progress. I wear it about 8 hours a day comfortably. Starting tonight I am going to sleep in it!!!

12/12/09- Week 5

It has been difficult to transition my eating habits to grazing. There has been a lot of indigestion. I am being more careful now.

There really hasn't been much progress. I am back to wearing it at 26.5", which was pretty much where I started. I wear it about 8 hours a day, and by the end if the day my back really hurts if I wear it any smaller. In the morning I am optimistic and tighten it down; yesterday I was wearing pants that I had altered, and couldn't loosen my corset unless I wanted to walk around work with my pants unbuttoned. I guess I need to wait a couple of weeks before wearing them again.

12/10/09 -day 26

The itchies are starting...

12/6/09 -day 22

The last week has been discouraging. The ugly back fat spillover is really causing me to not like wearing it. It is really causing my clothing to look freakish on me. I have been wearing it rather tight. I think I ordered it with poor measurements. I like to wear the bottom closed. It looks like "\/" in the back. Also, I like the feeling of it tight, but it keeps me from wearing it for more than 5 hours. So, as a result of all of this, today I kept it at 26.5" again and the back laces straight. It doesn't feel like it is doing me any good this loose, but it seems to be the only way to sustain it and keep the spillover to a minimum.

Another issue I am having is the metal bleeding through onto the silk. My corset was not terribly expensive, but I am still worried that I will wear it out. I wasn't expecting that. Maybe it is the copper from my jeans rather than the busk?

I had to sit through two meetings yesterday. People must find me to be really snooty sitting so upright on chairs clearly not designed for such. The driver's seat in my car is set to "L".

Well other than that, so far so good. I am not losing any weight though. I probably won't. Last time I lost a lot of weight, it involved copious amounts of alcohol and lots of dancing. When I was single, I did not eat after 5pm. Now I cook dinner every night for my family. It is difficult to overcome that temptation. I would like to lose 10lbs.

On this tangent, I noticed for the first time today that the wrinkle between my breasts is now permanent. It used to go away about 30 minutes after I woke up. ...not leaving anymore. I have also noticed the impressions on my wrists deepening. Every time I notice something about myself concerned with aging, it seems to be an overnight change. When I was little, and got pubic hair, I don't remember it coming in; I remember waking up one morning and it was there. Ah but an exception to that is my eyesight. That has deteriorated steadily. At least it is all still pretty superficial stuff.