Fat days

In my closest, I have jeans in three different sizes.

Before babies jeans are a size 4. They are old and faded and probably a little out of fashion. I am not ceratian why I keep them.

My between babies jeans are a size 6. They are well worn, comfortable, holes in the knees.

And my post baby jeans are a petite 2. I haven't been a size 2 in all of my adult life, so I was proud of loosing the baby weight and then some.

Since Halloween, I have managed to eat a steady stream of cookies, cakes and candies. I don't own a scale, but I have probably gained 5 lbs. My "skinny jeans" hug a little too tight in all the wrong places.

It's a new year, so I am already on the road back to a good diet and a better weight. But, in the mean time I have been wearing my size 6 jeans. The extra room all around makes me feel thinner than I am.

Maybe that's why everyone is wearing extra larges these days. To hide the extra pounds behind clothes that are sizes too big. I also wonder if the entire clothing industry has made things bigger. Maybe the size 2 I feel so proud of, would have been a 4 or even a 6 20 years ago.

I don't want to think about that too much. I like thinking I am thin, simply based on the number on my pants