In no particular order...
1.) Being able to comfortably hook my my whole thumb into my back pocket of my jeans while hooking my whole forefinger into the front pocket at the same time. This can only be done when you're smaller and the pockets are closer together.
2.) Wrapping myself and being completely covered in a bath TOWEL, not a bath SHEET (and honestly, the bath sheet may fit but there's not a lot of room for error or slippage!)
3.) Uber sexual confidence in the bedroom because I am happy with my body. Any position, any lighting condition. Need I say more?
4.) When I sit at the end next to the doors on the subway, I want my elbow to want to 'tuck in' to the bar, not rest of top of it. Same goes for big chairs with big arm rests. I want my arms to naturally fit inside them, not naturally want to rest on them, or naturally rest my forearms on them (does this one make sense?) This would also save my elbow and shoulder a lot of grief on aeroplane rides when I'm stuck in the aisle seat.
5.) I don't want to be mistaken for other overweight people anymore. This is not new to me, but it's been a while since it's happened. I work in a building (an industry really) that is male dominated. In my building there are really only a handful of females, two of which are overweight (I am one of them). But this does not excuse you for mistaking her for me when you see me from behind. Or worse, because you only met her briefly (or haven't met her yet and someone just described her to you) and the only thing you remember about her is that she's overweight. So you say her name to me with a question mark. Lovely. I want my first describing feature to be my height, my hair, my skin tone, ANYTHING, but not 'you'll know her when you see her, she's the fat one'.
And something I read the other day...
“Smaller snacks means smaller slacks.”
- Unknown*
Amen to that!
*Unless you know who did say it, then please fill me in! I couldn't find the origin of it.
I completely agree with all of those! Also for public transportation, sitting and only having my butt occupy one seat, so when the subway or bus is packed, I am not crowding the person sitting next to me because I'm taking up part of their seat... How I hate being "the fat one". ugh! Love your blog, I'm new here and I've been following your progress awesome awesome, so motivating! Keep up the good work shrinking! Kat.
ReplyDeleteThanks Kat! And YES!!! I hate when someone has to *squeeze* next to me! Personally though, this issue has got better and I find my elbows more of a problem (but that's not to say that they don't still haven't to squeeze in next to me!) Good luck with your goal, and don't be a stranger, ok? We can do this together!
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