When I looked like this,
I never cared about clothes. It didn’t matter to me what I put on my body so long as it fit. I never tried anything on in the dressing room either; that always left me guessing what size I truly was. Clothes were not important to me at my heaviest.
While I was a teenager, clothes meant everything to me. I wanted to wear the labels that the popular kids were wearing. I wanted to put on Guess Jeans and Polo shirts and Tommy Hilfiger dresses. It was only a pipe dream though. Mom stuck to shopping at Kmart, the thrift stores, and more often than not: Her trusty sewing machine.
(Sorry, bro. I had to show a pic of my teenage angst.)
I hated wearing hand-me-downs and homemade sewn projects. I always ended up in clothes that were too “mature” for my young years. I felt like June Cleaver or Donna Reed in some of those get-ups. I remember being taunted for something my mother had made; I took it off immediately when I got home from school and never wore it again. I was also bully and teased for wearing Kmart and thrift store clothes. It did happen. Bullying is very real. I couldn’t let anyone see me cry though.
Today, I look more like this:
(Christmas party – December 2012). My taste in clothing has evolved tremendously. I’m more picky about what I wear. I don’t need to have high fashion but it does need to fit properly and be comfortable. I believe that if your clothes are uncomfortable, you will outwardly express your discomfort. I wore “tents” back in the day because I was not a happy person. My unhappiness with my body showed in the clothes I wore. Happily, at a much healthier size, I can wear just about anything off the rack at Macy’s or Nordstrom or Forever 21 or wherever I want. My shopping as of late has been preferably at Old Navy, where the jeans fit me perfectly!
I work at a large men’s retailer; I had better know something about fashion! Eh, never fear! I have male coworkers that have helped me out with a lot of education and minor tweaking (not twerking!) when it comes to dressing in style.
And even more recently (plus proof I know the awesome and inspiring Mannings!)
(Dang! I look skinny!)
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A tip and a question:
First, the tip: I keep forgetting to read your posts. If you put a follow blog widget in your sidebar then I can follow you by email and I will never forget to read one.
Now the question: who the heck are the Mannings?
Yours truly,
Short Round
Drew Manning is the author of Fit2Fat2Fit. Leroy and I had the pleasure of meeting him and his beautiful wife a couple of months ago in Glendora. He’s a personal trainer and he’s been on Extreme Makeover Weight Loss edition with Chris and Heidi Powell.
And I’ll work on the blog widget (aka, how do I do it?)
Same way you do any widget. I told you the exact name of it. Go into the dashboard and then appearance / widgets. Find the widget and drag it into the sidebar template on the right side. If you’ve scrolled down too far then you have to go far enough up that the page scrolls for you so that you can drop it where you want it.
Did you find my widget? I put it in the sidebar just like you said! (Much easier than pingbacks!)
I will look when I get a chance, curb your enthusiasm now!
Curb my enthusiasm? Why should I when I finally got something right? lol
Yeah but I don’t think you did.
Yeah it’s not there. It’s called “Follow Blog”. You should be able to just drop it in the sidebar and it will appear on the site.
But that’s what I did… Drats!
Yeah I don’t know then. It works for everyone else.
It’s at the bottom. Did you find it?
I have to do it from home. I’ll let you know.
Okay, I got it! See, now when you post it emails me. I put that email in a folder with all the blog posts I read and then I read your post. Easy peasy. You have 235 followers, and I bet they’d love to hear what you have to say about something!
How do I have 235 followers and how do I know who they are?
I don’t know how – I was wondering the same thing. It counts your Twitter followers, your blog followers, and I don’t know what else. You can check it out in your dashboard somewhere, I just don’t know where for sure.
And I’m sorry to tell you, it’s kind of hard to stalk your followers, just like in real life. I’m not
Sure if you can get a list of
All 235.
I think most of them are about “make money blogging” crap. I’ve been getting a lot of followers like that,
Hey, a follower is a follower. As long as they’re not commenting crap all over your blog, who cares? Let them follow you. That’s not doing any harm.
And you really can’t stop them anyway.
I found it. It’s all the way at the bottom.
One more tip: some of my pingbacks might be landing in your spam comments. Make sure you go in there and mark them as not spam or they’ll land there more frequently over time.
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