for infomercials. I’m totally the fish they are looking for with click bait. I’ll follow every rabbit hole and be gone for hours and almost every time I come back with some new product I bought. Some of them have been good products – many didn’t really live up to the hype. Like the “monthly” underwear that I got in 3x, but was really a 3T mislabeled. It was pure olympics getting them on by every ounce of will in me and I ended up having to cut them off. Another time I bought a bra for big girls that is a sports bra but has a lacy criss-cross you pull around your breast and hook on the sides – supposed to be supportive and comfortable… basically this “bra” just cut my boobs right in half because the lace criss-cross thing was not like a lovely veil for my very unsexy bra, but more like a rope that seemed to be wrapped around two boulders attempting to keep them from rolling down and killing someone.
The point is, if they’re selling it – I’m probably going to buy it. My husband has had to talk me off the “buying Flex-Seal” ledge many times. I can honestly see myself needing to seal something underwater in the future. We don’t know where this world is headed – this could be life saving stuff!
I recently found a new website store for larger ladies. Now obviously, a website store keeps you from being able to try things on. So they have a sizing tool that you put in the sizes you wear at other stores, like Torrid or Lane Bryant, and then it tells you what that corresponds to in their store. So I put in my sizes and order my clothes. Yay!
My order arrived today. I’m super excited because I got a pair of work pants and 4 work shirts that I desperately need. I start trying them on and the works pants… well, they fit—ish. They are clearly made for an Avatar, but they fit perfectly around the waste – and in the crotch, which is so important! I figure I can do an “under fold” on the legs and they won’t be so long. Then I start trying on my shirts… they seem really nice… good material… but as I’m unfolding them, I can tell they all seem a tad big. No worries, I’ve shocked myself before when trying on clothes I swore wouldn’t fit. I put on the first shirt and after some adjustments to the sleeves and tugging and pulling everything in to place, I decide this will work—ish. I can’t really tuck in what seems like a train flowing from the back – but! Clever me! I can tie it somehow around the front and make it look like it’s supposed to be worn like that. The next one was the prettiest burlap sack I’d ever put on – that one went in the send back pile – the next one…I mean who are these people this clothing store is catering to? There must be a land of giants that we all don’t know about. These shirts aren’t too big in the bust or the arms – but the length… maybe they were all dresses and I didn’t realize that’s what I’d bought???
My husband just laughs because he pretty much expects this every time I order something. Especially since he didn’t get a Father’s Day gift until a couple of weeks ago that I ordered off Facebook. He also gets irritated because I’ll order new clothes, but not clean out my drawers and closet with my other clothes that he says I don’t wear… but I swear that I do. He says, “Then why do you complain you don’t have any clothes”? Blah blah blah… practical meeh, reasonable whatever. I’m going to though. I’m going to clean up my closet and get rid of stuff. That’s the kind of mood I feel in right now. Like just get rid of everything. Start fresh. Everything new.
I did order a few bottles of vitamins and other wizardly elixirs from two different keto Master’s websites. One is apparently the only company that has one product with all the absorbable magnesiums combined. They also offer a daily “kick start your metabolism” supplement. The other offers the only combination of both cayenne fruit extract (who knew that was a fruit?) and grains of paradise extract in one capsule. This guy was really pumped up about this product so I’ve got big hopes. All in all I’m still enjoying this keto journey. I’m still having fun experimenting with food and even if my weight loss is slow, I’m feeling healthier. And my motto in life is keep trying new things, keep laughing at yourself, and no matter what, keep moving forward.
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