I finally broke down and bought some new clothes last night. I’m heading to an education conference next week and got a wake up call on my wardrobe at work yesterday. My pants were falling off (again) and the seat of the pants was pretty much sagging to my knees. I also didn’t have any blouses left that I could comfortably wear to work. They’re all so big now that they just made me look super frumpy.<\/p>\n
Once more through the laundry machine to ensure they’re all clean and I’ll be adding the\u00a0pants and blouses to the bags of clothes we’re donating.\u00a0<\/p>\n
My closet seems so much bigger now that it’s nearly empty! Half of it is taken up with workout clothes. I expect when I get closer to my goal that will change drastically.<\/p>\n
It’s oddly difficult to give up clothes I’ve been wearing in order to make room for proper fitting ones. I haven’t yet added my “skinny”\u00a0jeans to the mix but I know I should. They were the first pair of women’s jeans I’d purchased when I started losing weight but they’re at least 2 sizes too big now.<\/p>\n
Shopping was an interesting experience. Mostly because I had no clue what size I wore. Sure, I know that the clothes I had previously are all too big, but I didn’t know what the right size would be. Vanity sizing continues at most women’s clothing stores it appears. While the shirt size was pretty consistent, I ended up buying\u00a0pants and skirts in 3 different sizes!<\/p>\n
All of what I’ve just bought should still fit fine\u00a0when we go on our family cruise in 3 weeks. I do have to pick up a few things like shorts and (probably) jeans for the cruise though. I’m just bringing my super crazy<\/span> extra large\u00a0shorts with me to the conference. When I get home I’ll worry about replacing them with a few pairs of medium sized shorts.\u00a0 Can’t give up all my clown clothes at once.<\/p>\n I should also mention that hubs, while wandering around the store helping me pick out new clothes (which he’s never\u00a0willingly<\/span> participated in to this degree in the past), found a great dress for me to wear to the conference awards gala dinner. It should also work great on the cruise if we decide to dress up one evening. All I have to do now is figure out how to walk in strappy sandal type shoes without killing myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I finally broke down and bought some new clothes last night. I’m heading to an education conference next week and got a wake up call on my wardrobe at work yesterday. My pants were falling off (again) and the seat of the pants was pretty much sagging to my knees. I also didn’t have any […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-leaf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/screamingpages.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}