Week in Review: Week 148
First week of the new year, woohoo (she said with little to no enthusiasm). Ha. I’m usually
For most of my adult life I have been overweight. For almost 30years I have been at (and sometimes above) the high-end of typical plus-size sizing. And that is a hard place to be.
In addition to the struggle of simply trying to find clothes that fit, was the challenge to trying to look and feel like myself given the disappointing clothing options. So “myself” just sort of disappeared. I was not the pink-and-white gingham “big shirt” over pink stretchy stirrup pants that I was forced to wear in the 90s because that’s all there was.That type of clothing was all that would physically fit around my body. But who I was in that clothing? Not me.