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post baby booty curves! LOVE ME LOVE MY ASS! |
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by bleshu  (September 2006) (rank 78th) |
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Clothes shopping used to be my favourite hobby. Last yr, when we decided to try for a baby I wanted to lose some weight first. I was 81kg and lost 10kg taking me sown to about 70kg on a good day. I was soooo proud of myself! I
took myself shopping to celebrate as my usual size 14 clothes were hanging and sagging. I was most unimpressed when I would try on clothes and realised I hadn't gone down in size, I was still a size 14! I palmed it off and though that maybe as I gained weight before I must have stretched my clothes.
Well, 12 months later I have a 2month old baby and I have lost most of my baby weight (except the jelly belly) so I am now the same weight I was before my pre pregnancie diet 80ish kg. I have once again found my size 16 clothes abit saggy and baggy and my pre pregnant clothes fit everywhere except the baby belly was stopping me from doing them up. So off I went again to do some shopping assuming that I would be able to fit into a size 14 in shops like Target and sussans and maybe a 14-16 in my favourite shop "just jeans". I went into Just jeans to find 1 pair of size 16 pants in the whole shop!! I tried on 14s aswell because the pants I was wearing that day was from just jeans 12months previous and they were a size 14 and fit quite comfortably. The new pants I was trying on in the shop, however, I couldnt even get them up over my thighs!!! I thought it was a joke. The one pair of 16 jeans i tried on were still a little snug! I couldnt believe it! The woman that worked there actually said to me "maybe you would be better off going to Target"!!!!! I could have taken her head off with my post pregnancie hormones!
I went to Target the other day and tried on a pair of 14's and they are slightly too big, but still very comfortable. So in just jeans I was barely squeezing into a 16 and Target size 14pants were too big! Can any please explain to me how, in a nation that is sooooo concerned that their people are too fat, the sizes keep shrinking??? And if you go into a shop and the first sizes they are sold out of are 14's and 16's, why do they stock in majority size 8's and 10's???
So after my big whinge and sooky dance my advice to all you ladies who need new clothes after having a baby is this.............. Forget sizes and labels and narky stick creature shopping assistants and go for clothes that fit. Love the skin your in! For so many yrs I would refuse to go up a size and instead I would kill my self trying to loose weight when all the while they are shrinking our clothes just incase we dont already feel bad enough about our bodies. We aren't all no ass, no curve, Brats doll look alikes! I like my body and my curves (sooooo does my husband) I just wish these shops would realise that real women like nice clothes too. I shouldnt have to wear clothes like baggy t-shirts and elasticised pants that hide my curves just because it makes skinny chicks insecure.
lexi xxx
Thumbs up to you, I'm sick of the whole anorexic budgie look myself. Nowadays I've lost a bit compared to the photo and I'm a 12 to 14 that according to my friend (HMPH!) I should be a 10 tops. I say to her if she's on the weight watchers bandwagon more power to ya but I like my pleasantly plump for a person of my height figure quite frankly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And I may add I don't need a blinkin point system to shed the kilos I eat what I want when I want and I'm happy within myself. 
, nothing really nice out there at the moment.
