When I whine about something that is a little silly, my mom calls it a “good problem to have” and I have one right now. My weight loss efforts have paid off big time and I’m suddenly able to shop in the normal section instead of the sad little area they save for us fat girls. But sadly, there is no money to be had for new clothes and I’ve been wearing clothes that are too big for a while.
The biggest problem is jeans…the ones I was wearing when I got pregnant with Violet are gigantic on me. Like falling off of my body and requiring me to constantly hitch them up. I tried shrinking but they’re still way too big. Good problem, right? Well, my mom gave me some money for my birthday and I decided to use it for a few pairs of jeans. I found 2 pairs in the size I thought I needed on clearance at Old Navy and ordered them because my husband won’t take the time to go shopping with me. (Will someone call the waaaaaaaaaahmbulance for me?)
They got here yesterday and I tried them on, somewhat nervous that they’d be too tight. They were two sizes smaller and I thought I might be pushing it a little bit by ordering so small.
No. TOO BIG. And not just by a little bit…at least one size too big, and potentially more. I am convinced that Old Navy’s sizing is way off, because if I get the size that I think I need I’ll be wearing the size I wore when I graduated college. I still weigh a good 10-15 pounds more than I did then and that was long before I had 3 babies.
I am reveling in this right now. The hard work is paying off. Now I just need to stay motivated!
Tinker
November 5, 2009 at 12:34 am
Yay for the smaller-sized you! I had the same skippy-happy feeling about being able to finally shop in the ‘regular’ stores again, but ran into the same thing at Old Navy. On the day I bought size 12 jeans there, I bought a pair of 14s (that were, I think, just a smidge more snug) at American Eagle.
We could both just have ended up with Old Navy jeans cut from the bottom of the fabric pile though.