Clothing

Aug 14, 2009

I am liberating myself from ugly clothes. And it is a liberation. All those dingy tee shirts, with the holes and the stains, are going when I find them. The casual shirts and pants that I kept because they covered the fat, not because they looked good or were comfortable. I cleaned 6 bags of clothes out of my closet yesterday, and I'm anxiously awaiting the moment when I can purge the next round.

It's funny, because a lot of WLS people talk about how it takes a while to shrink out of your first size, but you seem to gain speed dropping from a 20 whatever to about a 10, when it slows again. My theory: clothes made for heavy people usually have stretch in them - elastic waistbands, lycra in the weave - so you can continue to squeeze yourself in even when you shouldn't. So first, I had to drop from the size 26 I actually was to the size 24 I was wearing. I didn't have many 22s (or 24s for that matter - I was wearing out the four things that actually fit!). Now I'm in the 20s, which I actually have quite a few of - but I want to get rid of them. These are the clothes that I've had forever. The ones I grew out of, but couldn't believe I grew out of them, so I kept them thinking I'd drop the 20, or 30, or 40 pounds that I'd gained and I'd wear them again.

One of the things I'm really looking forward to is having the choice of clothes with the textures and colors I like, not because it actually fit over my flab.

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