Okay I am
a little miffed. How come all of a sudden I find the cutest clothes all in plus sizes and none in my size? I have been doing a lot of retail therapy to help me cope and I am noticing that when I was bigger I could never find anything flattering for plus size women AND all of a sudden now I am a size XS or Small and I cannot find anything that fits me right? Don't get me wrong I am loving my new life but it seems like I am having a harder time now shopping because either the clothes are too big or there is too big a selection and I cannot make up my mind. Am I the only one going thru this? Anybody have similar problems?
-Shilpa
People comment on my over 100 pound weight loss and attribute it to my WILLpower, but it is my WANTpower: I WANT to be thin and healthy more than anything else!
Shilpa,
I don't know if you're going through the same thing i am, but here's what I've been feeling (which may be the second thing you mention). For my entire life, I had to select clothes pretty much solely on the basis of "what fits"... you know - you find a semi-cute top (something you can "live with") and it fits so you HAVE to get it because the chances of finding another cute top that fits are pretty slim. Coupled with that, my former body shape pretty much dictated (in my mind, at least) a narrow range of things that looked halfway decent - a certain cut of jeans, a certain shape of top, length of skirt, etc.
Now that I'm in "normal people" sizes, I'm finding it hard to figure out how to weed through things and make good selections. I don't want to end up a fashion disaster, but there's just too much to select from. And trying to put together outfits to fit and flatter my changing new shape becomes an exercise in frustration - i just don't know HOW to do it, so end up taking 56 things into the fitting room (each item in multiple sizes) to try and figure out what MIGHT look halfway decent together. Half the time, I end up walking out of the fitting room in disgust because nothing seems to "work."
Again, my brain has to catch up with my body in figure out how to select "looks" now - because it's a skill I never really learned earlier in my life.
I don't know if any of this applies to you at all, but figured I'd share in case it helps.
Karen
I don't know if you're going through the same thing i am, but here's what I've been feeling (which may be the second thing you mention). For my entire life, I had to select clothes pretty much solely on the basis of "what fits"... you know - you find a semi-cute top (something you can "live with") and it fits so you HAVE to get it because the chances of finding another cute top that fits are pretty slim. Coupled with that, my former body shape pretty much dictated (in my mind, at least) a narrow range of things that looked halfway decent - a certain cut of jeans, a certain shape of top, length of skirt, etc.
Now that I'm in "normal people" sizes, I'm finding it hard to figure out how to weed through things and make good selections. I don't want to end up a fashion disaster, but there's just too much to select from. And trying to put together outfits to fit and flatter my changing new shape becomes an exercise in frustration - i just don't know HOW to do it, so end up taking 56 things into the fitting room (each item in multiple sizes) to try and figure out what MIGHT look halfway decent together. Half the time, I end up walking out of the fitting room in disgust because nothing seems to "work."
Again, my brain has to catch up with my body in figure out how to select "looks" now - because it's a skill I never really learned earlier in my life.
I don't know if any of this applies to you at all, but figured I'd share in case it helps.
Karen
As I was walkinhg through walmart just the other night I saw the GREATEST top...so I went over to pick it up - only to realize it was in the womens section (mind you - I wasn't shopping for clothes so it wasn't like I gravitated towards the women sizes...I was passing through to get to the bedding department) and I looked around and thought to myself "wow....wish they would have had these when I was bigger!
I don't have TO much trouble finding things that are cute or whatever....but tops are getting increasingly difficult to get just because of my body shape.
I don't have TO much trouble finding things that are cute or whatever....but tops are getting increasingly difficult to get just because of my body shape.
Instead of complaining that the rosebush has thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses. 
Lesley,
Old Navy had the cutest selections and their clearance section had an additional 50% off. I got 8 tops for $32.00 but had a heck of a time getting my sizes. Ugh I just had the weeding process also Target had the prettiest 3/4 length sweaters that were like $6.50!! I wished at that point that I was XL or XXL. lol I know CRAZY thought but they had the cutest things there.
Old Navy had the cutest selections and their clearance section had an additional 50% off. I got 8 tops for $32.00 but had a heck of a time getting my sizes. Ugh I just had the weeding process also Target had the prettiest 3/4 length sweaters that were like $6.50!! I wished at that point that I was XL or XXL. lol I know CRAZY thought but they had the cutest things there.
-Shilpa
People comment on my over 100 pound weight loss and attribute it to my WILLpower, but it is my WANTpower: I WANT to be thin and healthy more than anything else!
I'm no where near small.... but I am also experiencing the same challenges. It's hard for me to decide from all the selections in XL.
I've had some great luck at a resale shop in Stroudsburg ---even found items with the tags still on them! The proceeds benefit Women's Resource of Monroe County. (Example, raincoat with liner for $10!)
I've had some great luck at a resale shop in Stroudsburg ---even found items with the tags still on them! The proceeds benefit Women's Resource of Monroe County. (Example, raincoat with liner for $10!)
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