"Lady o' the house" wrote in message ...
Great feeling, isn't it? I recently went into a BonWorth store to find a
t-shirt for a spaghetti-strap dress (it used to have one, but it is
long-since gone.) I looked at the 1x size shirts and they looked too big,
so I tried on a L and it was 'roomy.'

Made my day!!!

I remember how disoriented I felt the last time I lost significant
weight (about 70 pounds, 30 on my own, 40 on WW), and the larger sizes
were too big.

I didn't know where to shop anymore, as some of the the stores I'd
shopped in for umpteen years, didn't carry the smaller sizes I needed.
And, even in the large department stores that carried a range of
sizes, I didn't know what part of the store to shop in.

It was like relocating to an unfamiliar city without actually moving.
:-)

But it was really nice to be able to have so many choice in clothing,
and not just have to "settle" for something I really didn't like
because it was the only remotely accpetable item in my size. sigh

Since I still have quite a few nice items of clothes in sizes 20 down
to 16, I should be able to do a significant amount of my clothing
shopping in my closets and attic. Not too much is really out of style
because I tend to stick to classic styles and only buy a few items of
really trendy styles from time to time.

The one thing, though, is that my body proportions are different now
than they used to be the last time I was this weight. My waist is
thicker, for instance.


Nat
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