Fat gets in the way of everything, it even effects the holiday season .... through the years I have learned to tolerate it, but this is the last year for that. Let me break it down for the skinny's of the world ... On the 1st day of Christmas .... Wrapping all of the gifts! There is no comfortable way to do this ... a a fluffy person you are cursed with T-Rex arms... you cant reach the end of the roll to make a straight cut and reaching over the extra big boxes is particularly hard. I know most people wrap standing at a table or counter... but I do my best work sitting down, so I am forced to the floor and end up scooting around to reach the next gift feel around in the "blind spots" where the pen, tape or scissors have disappeared to. On the 2nd day of Christmas .... Christmas decorating - The energy just isn't there we have great ideas and high hopes of what our house will become over the holiday's and with the invention of FB and pintrest it have only gotten worse, we compare our home to all the cutesy ones we see online. I cannot believe how worn out sorting and fluffing all the tree limbs made me. So, when we are forced to leave the big stuff up to the hubby and the kids, it looks more like redneck granny Griswold hosted holiday central at our place. On the 3rd day of Christmas... Holiday shopping ... I can last 3 hours max! That is going at my own pace, on a mission, with a list and frequent breaks. After the 2nd hour my dogs start barkin' and the send a message to my brain that is received loud and clear "Get this fat girl off of us!" My shopping trips are broken up into segments, I had to make 6 trips this year! On the 4th day of Christmas ... Matching family footie jammies ... yep they do not make those for me... I am lucky to find a night gown in my size, there is no way that I will find 6 sets of jammies that match and accommodate all of our specialty sizing needs! On the 5th day of Christmas .... Christmas parades ... Parade routes can be very long and winding, and once you are committed to walking the route there is no backing out! So this year after spending 3 hours decorating the school float I couldn't decide whether I should walk or ride... my swollen ankle had been giving me fits so a co-worker convinced me at the last minute to ride... I stepped up on the stool to gracefully board the float when they start shouting "he's moving!" I ever so un-gracefully do a walrus flop onto the float, butt in the air for all of the unfortunate walkers to see... Lesson #52 fat girls can't fly! On the 6th day of Christmas ... ugly sweater day! The purpose of Ugly Sweater day is not to make the sweater uglier with your body, but somehow I pull it off. When you are as big as me, you are forced to create your own ugly sweater, DIY style! There aren't just 100's of them laying on the shelves of goodwill awaiting your purchase. On the 7th day of Christmas ... Thigh chaffing ... Dressing-up for Christmas parties or programs will always make a fat girl cringe. Making a decision to wear a dress is killer, your thighs are set on fire round about hour #2. On the 8th day of Christmas .... wearing the same decent casual outfit to every gathering and changing the scarf because you only have 1 pair of jeans and 1 cute dressy t-shirt. Sure my floor is covered with a mountain of clothes that are dingy, worn, torn, too small, or just plain ugly! At this point though I refuse to purchase anything else in this size!!! On the 9th day of Christmas ... Cameras everywhere .... so many people attempting to capture the moment and post them on facebook... It makes me so proud to have these floating around! On the 10th day of Christmas .... Holiday cleanup is NEVER fun... but it is even less fun when you have zero it sucks to move around! On the 11th day of Christmas ... Church Christmas program fruit & candy bags ... yes most of the candy is ooky ... yes it is worse mixed together ...and I would never ever buy it just to eat it ... those icky pink things and orange slices are generally gagalicious ... but I cannot resist the nostalgia! On the 12th day of Christmas ... Silver Dollar City, enjoying time with the family is super important to me. Trips like this one are cut short because my feet are killing me, and squeezing around the crowd is unbearable.
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Gypsy Fox
1/11/2015 02:32:57 pm
Holding you to many shopping trips, MY WAY, in the future!
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This weight loss is only from June 2015 (I had lost another 51 pounds prior to this)
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