From a 6x stretch to 14/16 Jeans

Dec 20, 2009

When I started this journey I was wearing a 6x and it better be cotton knit because no other material would fit over my fat body.  I remember shopping to be such a chore due to its limits of sixes and styles and the price was absurd.  Then I had the surgery and the melting began and I could quit shopping online and start shopping in all the plus size stores.  I was proud to shop in those stores.  I was proud to be the largest size they sold.  Eventually, I began shopping in the plus size area of department stores, but then I melted out of those sizes too.  I literally had to ask the saleslady what came before women's because even at the age of 12 I was shopping in the women's section of the store.  I learned there was a misses department...who would have known? certainly NOT me.  So the melting continues and the extended abdominioplasty happens and I am sitting visiting with a friend last night and she mentions she has bought new jeans.  I ask what size and she begrudgedly says 14 - she works hard at keeping her weight down but the holidays have gotten the best of her and she is not in the 12 anymore.  As unhappy as she is with her 14, that's how excited I am.  I ask if I can try them on, thinking for sure I don't fit them, but it would give me an idea of where I am in the process.  So, here goes nothing.  I slide them on and what? button them up! and what? zip them!!!!!  So the next thing we do is shop....yep, I shopped in her closet because my friend is a shopaholic and her closet is full of things she bought and never wore and has no intention of wearing.  I loved every minute of fitting into my normal sized friend's clothes.  Go me! 

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