by S. Murray

Created on: October 15, 2008

Well, let's see, what do the words "Plus Size" bring to the minds of most people? Fat, or should I say "Fluffy"? Ok then, I am very Fluffy. I am about 200 lbs. and I do not actually feel fluffy, I feel fat. Just when I can get to the point of allowing someone to take a picture, "wham" there are those 3 chins again. As you can now tell, my self esteem could use a little work on it. Shopping does not help the self esteem area at all. I go into the stores and see all the cute little outfits, thinking one day I will again wear a size 10. Yeah right, when frogs have wings. Finding sensual, tasteful night wear is even more difficult than finding that "litte" black dress (unless you know Omar, you will find no such thing in a size 20)! My husband had bought me a little red nightie for Valentine's Day last year. Oh how thoughtful he was and pretty excited to see me in it (I am still at a loss on that one). So, I go into the bathroom to get ready for our romantic evening, I put on the nightie, OK, not too bad but when I got to the little red dental floss (oh, I am sorry, most people call them a thong), I put it on and the neighbors actually heard me! I refused to come out of the bathroom until I could compose myself and contain my laughter. There is no way that a fluffy person can put those things on and feel sexy.. no way.. you may never see them again (if you saw them in the first place)! Get a reality check! We are not meant to wear those things at 200 lbs plus. If we truly desired to wear the dental floss so badly, we would lose weight so that our significant other can actually see it on us!

The good Lord is the only one who knows why the weight we gained is distributed through out the body fairly evenly, until you hit the breast area, then all the remaining "fluffiness" is dumped there, all at once. So, we are now a 44 DDD and cannot find our feet, much less anything else. Just once I would love to take a friend shopping with me that will tell me the truth of what not to wear. Stores, especially Plus Size stores should have a list posted on the wall of "What you should not wear if you are shopping in our store". The clothing lines that are offered to larger women are pretty insulting. They take the tiny clothes, blow them up 5-12 sizes then offer them to us. The cute "little" black number with the tiny straps and low cut bosom, does not look "cute" on if you are a size 20 or larger. The under swing from the flab on the under arm alone can put someone's eye out.

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