Reality Check ~ The 3 way mirror!
What brought me here? Well...I went shopping yesterday at the mall with a friend of mine. We decided to take advantage of the after Christmas sales. I'm always buying for my kids and my hubby and my friend and I decided it's time that we got spoiled! We got a sitter and headed off to the mall. I was so excited! The first thing we did was stop at Carlos O Kellys for lunch and a margarita. Now, it's time to go shopping!
Reality Check #1: The first stop was at Fashion Bug Plus....50% off tagged prices....What a great deal! I wasn't really sure what size I wore. The jeans that I have now are the stretch kind and they're a size 18, but I have had them forever....I think I stretched them out to fit me, because I do not wear a size 18!! All of the pants I tried on would not fit, every jean fits differently and I just gave up! It was time to concentrate on shirts. I saw some really cute turtlenecks and grabbed the 16/18 size, which is what I thought I wore....a wonderful description of me fitting into one of these turtenecks is like a woman trying to give birth.....I could hardly sqeeze my head through, I decided I would probably need to go up a few shirt sizes. I tried on the 24/26 and it did fit, but I will definitely wear something over it....not very attractive. I did find some really nice shirts that looked wonderful on me, so I bought that same shirt in different colors, go with what works. I left there and decided I was thirsty and got a large Coke.
Reality Check #2: I knew I needed to buy some pants and that I would have to live up to the reality that I will need to try on jeans until I found some that would fit. My friend said, "Let's go to CJ Banks." So now that I have downed my Coke we head to CJ Banks. I grab some cute jeans and knew that I needed to start somewhere so I grabbed some 20's, 22's and 24's. I tried on the 20s and they were a little snug, so I thought 22 should fit me for sure, well, it did. I could get them buttoned anyways. I still could sit down without them being too tight, and I did not want to go up to size 24....so I thought this will work!!
Reality Check #3: Okay, I knew I needed to get a better look at these jeans and since the dressing room is the size of a porta potty with a mirror I decided to go and look for a mirror outside of the dressing room. Down the hall I saw a huge mirror so I began walking towards it, when I realized it was a 3-way mirror....Yes, you read that right, a 3-way mirror! The Horror!!! I just saw myself from every angle and it was not pretty! Is this how people see me? I could not believe I had let myself get this way.
The moral of this story.....I am Fat! I need to do something about it NOW!!! I knew what the sizes of clothes were saying, but I didn't really think much about it, but when I saw myself in the mirror, nothing could have gotten my attention like that!!
I left that mall with new clothes and the motivation to lose the 100 pounds for good.
I have never done this blog thing before, but I absolutely love the concept of documenting my journey to lose over 100 pounds! I plan on visiting here daily and documenting my food intake, my exercise and my complete journey to losing over 100 pounds. I know the only way to lose these pounds is by knowing how I got here and change those old habits. Just like when I was typing the story above and how we stopped for lunch and the coke. I now know how I got to be over 100 pounds.
Well....until tomorrow!
Kristy