Throughout this process your size actually changes - go figure!! This may sound crazy but it does... lol...you may or may not see it - until the pants get baggier, the shirts are super loose and your bra looks empty.
The reality hits when you try to buy clothes. Holding up a pair of pants or looking at a size medium and realizing it will be too big. I think I now understand when people loose exorbitant amounts of excess weight and have trouble seeing themselves in a smaller size. I am having a problem with this, especially with the pictures taken by the camera - it is so hard to see the change that I know is there. At times I get a fleeting glimpse, and once again Blake likes to give me a bad time for not *getting excited* over it - another topic for another blog.
This weekend I was just out shopping at our superstore. They have reasonable workout gear. I came into this same sizing problem. Holding up a medium shirt, realizing how large it would be, I had to go into a small. And the shorts, well, I bought the wrong size, after deciding the small was going to be a little tight, I thought that would do for the next few weeks. Wrong - I should have bought an EXTRA small.
There is a point to all this ~ again, it would be so nice to go and shop for clothes, other than workout items. But....I am frugal, and also realistic - what size am I going to actually be? It would be fun to shop, BUT...I don't want to buy some nice things, only to be able to wear them for a month or two. Now at the same time, I do not plan on going back to the weight I was at when I started this process. So for now, I stay in my stretchy pants that I have to pull up every time I walk; and enjoy my new workout top or shorts that I *treat* myself to.
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