Blimey, that pasta carbonara is so SALTY. It is demoted to my least favourite of the hot meals. But actually they are all not bad. I'm almost looking forward to getting back into ketosis/on plan properly.
I ordered some dresses from *a well known online retailer that features frolicking young British ladies with woven picnic hampers with names like Daisy and Hyacinth* in sizes 14 and 16. They arrived yesterday. The 16s are still in the plastic wrappers, and I am considering requesting size 12s because some of the 14s are a little loose!!!!! But saying that, because of my body shape, my boobs just stretch the top bits and don't look nice but the bottom half hangs off me.
Naturally I'm delighted that I am sizing down, but it got me thinking about clothing choices. When we are sized a bit larger, we really put up with a lot of rubbish from clothing manufacturers don't we? I mean, it's not like we (those of us who are more than size 10 and without legs like skyscrapers) are a minority customer or anything is it? And yet these clothes seem to be designed by a bunch of blokes with no concept of a person whose boobs may not tick the same box as a hip measurement. And another thing: Those tops with "secret support" or whatever. I end up just chopping out the "secret top" bit, for the simple reason that unlike all the models in the catalogue/website, my boobs don't defy gravity. They head towards the equator and drag the so called secret support with it, leaving me with an extremely saggy cleavage. This is also the case for all of those otherwise flattering tunic styles that apparently "skim over the tummy".
It is not just that I have ridiculous boobs. They used to be nice when I was a size 8 and childless and 20something (although people tended to talk to my chest rather than my face) but after 3 kids, and 40 something I am tired of having a surplus of body in that area. I would resent paying the cash to do so as there are so many other things in my life and others that would benefit from the cash, but if I won the lottery tomorrow I think I would consider having them reduced. Because even when I am not overweight i feel like they are just out of proportion. Honestly, I look like I could keel over at any minute, or at least I would if they weren't now hanging down somewhere near my knees. Don't get me wrong, I don't waste my life brooding over it, but it is just one of those things I get frustrated about occasionally. Particularly when I am trying to find something nice to wear apart from jeans and an ubiquitous safe t shirt.
It is genuinely really hard to find something nice that doesn't end up looking like a sack on a tomato when you are short, apple shaped with large boobs and a tummy. It would be lovely if Claudia or Penelope from *that catalogue* occasionally featured a little variety in the body shape department when modelling their clothes, but I don't see it happening any time soon. It is a pity because if somebody made some clothes that looked lovely on all body shapes, I think real women would vote with their pounds. In fact, there would be a stampede.