Dark jeans, light jeans, faded jeans, black jeans, white jeans, fat jeans, skinny jeans.

The last two on that list are probably the only two most of us care about. They are the jeans we wear when we are feeling fatter, bloated or bigger and the jeans we strive to wear someday.

"Skinny jeans" has become a token term these days for a particular style of jeans. To me, it has nothing to do with style. It has to do with where I'm at now and where I ultimately want to be.

Skinny jeans mean different things to different people. I know that I personally have a pair of skinny jeans that I actually used to wear when I was skinnier and another pair that I've never worn in my life. For me, these two pairs of jeans hold two seperate purposes:

1.) The pair I have worn before proves to remind me that I've worn them before and I can fit into them again.

2.) The pair I have never worn gives me something to shoot for, be it far or otherwise.

For me, this is a barometer to track how much I've lost and how much more I have to go. For others, a scale will do just fine.

What do you think? Do you use your scale to determine how much weight you've lost?

Very often lately we see stories and blog posts with headlines that read, "secrets to weight loss." And sometimes, if you're lucky, you can pick up some tips that are actually useful.

During my daily browse, I stumbled upon this blog that boasted a weight loss confession. I was instantly intrigued (I know I typically only confess something that I've done wrong and want to come clean about).

http://www.experienceproject.com/confessions.php?cid=137862

Unfortunately this wasn't the kind of weight loss confession I was excited to read. The blogger is confessing that she is on prescription Attention Deficit Disorder medication to lose weight that she was easily prescribed by her doctor when she told the doctor she had ADD.

Many bloggers respond to this, offering their advice.

While I do not think what she is doing is an appropriate way to lose weight, maybe for her, confessing and getting others' opinions is how she will learn that this is not a good practice and that she should try something else. Maybe she's looking for an alternative option that she is hoping a responder will provide her.

In case this is what she's looking for, and maybe some of you are in the same boat as her, I'd like to start a forum for you to "confess" your weight loss confessions so that us buddies might be able to offer some advice.