Hey! I'm a model!

Hollie, of 300 pounds down wrote a very accurate rant about the fashion industry having nothing decent in the really large sizes. Just for fun, I looked up Catherine's, an online plus-sized store. Really??? Although I thought that there were a few things that would be nice at any size, no way should anyone over 300 pounds wear the bright neon striped rainbow shirt. Probably not anyone over 100 pounds should wear that. On the one hand it was fun to look at the sight, because their plus-sized models were all my size, and yes, the stuff (even the rainbow number) looked ok on them--and would look ok on me. It was fun to look through the pictures and think, "well, I could wear that and that and that, but really heavy people couldn't!"  I don't often get to be the person that things look good on.

Seriously, though I really hate the fashion industry. People my size don't need to shop at online plus-sized stores (unless we really want to) because we have other options. People who ARE shopping at those stores because they have no other choice, will NOT look anything like as nice as the models look when wearing the same outfits. (Not as nice as me!) What are they doing putting size 14 or 16 people on those catalog pages?  Selling clothes, I guess. But I wonder how much that really works? I have the same problem at the mall. Those outfits on the models are NOT going to look the same on me and it's frustrating! I think if they had a genuine size 16 or 18 or 20 model and the clothes looked good on that model, I'd buy a whole lot more clothes!!

I can't decide if I'm glad or sad about today's birthday treats. Glad-ish, I guess. Chips and salsa and apples and a really good apple dip. I think I kept things to my allotted 500 calories--even with the two snickers bites that weren't on any plan.  Today is sesame day. Love these days, it makes me so much happier to embrace calorie counting tomorrow.

I worked out quite a bit yesterday. Not sure if I'll get any exercise in today since it's a late day, but if I can walk just a 1/2 hour here at work, it shouldn't be hard to stationary bike for another 1/2 at home. I think I will. Once I'm off the desk, all I have to do is make phone calls off of an endless list. A couple of walking breaks will be welcome.