Weight loss and clothing size

In losing weight I am having to start replacing clothing as the old ones become just too large; yesterday I donated a bag to the Salvation Army. In shirts my sizing seems to be down from large to medium. When I was a teenager in England I used to buy trousers with a 34" waist and at my fattest I was up to 40" American. I am now pleasantly surprised to find that, even though I am still decidedly overweight, I already seem to be down to 36" waist in Britain, and 34" by American sizes. All regular cut: these other cuts for varieties of near-human seem strangely popular^* but I avoid them. I am not wearing my newer belt today because even its two extra added-afterward holes don't suffice to make it usefully tightening.

It is pleasing to be losing abdominal girth because I have had some concern over visceral fat deleteriously affecting my organs.

^*For instance, Tesco loves straight cut whose 36"-waist trousers certainly don't fit my legs, but they also have an F&F clothing label which distracts me by its naming: I don't know for what the initials stand but I am guessing that it is not fire and forget.

Seasonal boundaries

Yes, it's now Fall: leaves of some local deciduous flora are already starting to turn and Labor Day is tomorrow. I am all for seasons starting on these meteorological calendar-month boundaries. The astronomical ones seem popular but they just don't fit the weather and for me seasons are principally defined by weather. Really, winter doesn't start until nearly Christmas? I remember a winter in Boston where for much of December the snow was piled high around us. I am not saying that September 1st is clearly the best start for Fall but the proposal certainly has some currency and it's not as obviously wrong as waiting three weeks further.