It’s about F’n Time

Seriously, two blog entries today?  Well I guess it is due to the fact that I have a lot to say, and so little time to put it all on paper.  My friends seriously call me a Fashion Faux Pas…well it is because my size 18-20 jeans do NOT fit me anymore.  Actually a size 16 is too big…I just purchased this weekend a new pair of Jeans that I love from Value Village…but that still makes me a Fashion Faux Pas.  There are a couple of reasons for this….first is that the Plus Size stores don’t cater to my body type, they never have.  Well, they did to some extent, but here is the deal, I UNDERSTAND that a lot of people who are overweight have some Junk in the Trunk.  There is NOTHING wrong with a little booty, in fact, I think there was a song called “I like Big Butts” by Sir-Mix-A-Lot.  Now, don’t get me wrong when I say this, but I DONT HAVE ANY JUNK IN THE TRUNK.  Oh boy, the days I wish I did.  Even when I was going to the plus size stores, I would find maybe a pair or two of pants….but the rest looked redonkulous…because I don’t have junk in the trunk, they looked like clown pants.  Fair enough, so I have a limited number of pants to wear.  Losing 30+ lbs, now I have less booty, but I am not quite skinny enough to fit into a size 12 (the standard Largest size in non plus size stores).  Granted, Old Navy has just about everything under the sun, anything larger than 12 requires one to have junk in the trunk.  The second thing about losing this weight is that I am having a serious hard time trying to find tops.  I mean my girls have shrunk, and to some extend so have I, but I am not quite an XL at non plus size stores, but too small for a 1X at the plus size stores.  What is a girl to do???  The last thing is that I can’t really afford going to buy a new wardrobe every 10 lbs I lose.  It is getting expensive.  I mean there are only so many things that one can find that are fashionable at the thrift and second hand stores.  And even then, 1X dosen’t fit, XL dosen’t fit, 12’s are too small, 14’s are ok, and 16’s are too big.  So as much as I want to go shopping at non plus size stores, I can’t find anything at plus size stores.  Is there not a kinda plus size store?  I mean do you have to be super skinny to wear le chateau crap or do you have to be super large to fit into plus size crap?  Plus, my “girls” have shrunk also, so I need to find new bra’s and new underwear.  No wonder I am a Fashion Faux Pas!  Having said that I also wanted to add this:  PEOPLE RUNNING PLUS SIZE STORES:  please add more fashionable things for plus size women….just because we are (were) big, does not mean that we don’t want to be fashionable.  OF COURSE WE DO.  Not everyone who is Plus Size likes to dress like a gramma.  Common, some nice plus size stylish pant suits?  Like the skinny girls wear…How about some nice summer little skirts (not too little, don’t want to show off the thunder thighs) but nice and light and flowy?  Really?  Why is it so difficult. 

The last thing I wanted to share was a little story about a lady I work with.  Let’s call her “Norma”.   She is a bigger girl, way bigger than most.  I have to say that if I was to guestimate her weight I would say it is more than 250 lbs, closer to the 300 mark.  Now she wears the most rediculous clothes ever to work.  She wears sweatpant(ish) kind of pants.  The cotton kind that stretches.  On her top tho, she wears shorter tops (at least to her belly button) and altho there is no skin showing in her middrift (THANK GOODNESS!) she still looks pretty rediculous!  Ok, so now we know how she dresses.  So I was having lunch a couple of weeks ago and an old collegue whom I hadn’t seen for a while came to talk to me.  She told me how great I looked because of the weight loss.  I politely thanked her.  Well, Norma was sitting at our lunch table.  Always having to be the center of attention, she was like I am watching what I eat these days also.  My collegue said that is great.  I hope that works out for you.  Well Norma went to the cafeteria (which is notorious for giving LARGER than life portions) and brought back a HUGE piece of Lasagna with a small side ceasar salad.  Norma was like, See, this is Healthy!  Wow, where does she get off saying it is remotely healthy.  So I went back to my desk and did some research on her meal.  She had a meat lasagna that was almost 4 inches X 3 inches (guestimating) which is approximately 600 calories (it was smothered in cheese) and about 200 calories for the salad.  To top that off she had an orange juice, about 150 calories and she normally has a cream cheese muffin in the morning, about 200 calories.  Lets add that up: 600+200+150+200=1150 calories.  This does not include dinner, or any other snacks, or coffee or anything…that is probably her BMR right there (maybe a few more calories) but if you count in dinner and whatever else there is no deficit of calories, there is no physical activity, and she complains how hard it is to lose weight.  It infuriates me that a) she would take away from my glory of losing 30 lbs b) that she complains that she can never lose weight and c) that I worked so F’n hard to take off this weight and she has probably not even tried!  Now I am not going to be all high and mighty and point her in the right direction…because she knows that she has to do it…oh SHE KNOWS!  I don’t even want to tell her that she is extremely obese.  And I know I have said this before, time and time again that it really has to come from within.  You have to admit to yourself that YOU ARE OBESE before you can try to lose weight, otherwise it is an uphill battle.  The chocolate bar won’t be so tempting if you have admitted to being obese than it is if you are just on a “diet”.  Change truly comes from within…and you have to be willing to change. 

Ok, enough ranting about people at work and being a fashion criminal.  And also if you read this, feel free to hit me upside the head with a dose of reality if you think I need one.