BigMoFos Week 20

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New thread for a new week.

Have you looked online for other sources of clothes, WWB? I've never really had a good look, but there might be stuff out there.

I have ordered stuff from SimplyBe before, their sizes are on the small side so order a size up and some of their stuff is also not great quality but I find it better than Evans. I buy most of my clohtes in the US as I tend to go for a shopping weekend about once a year - or at least did before Junior.

I've had another difficult week but am still going to be brave and weigh. My only saving grace was that I went to acqua on MOnday night and went for another swim last night. Not got my eating back under control yet. I will though, eventually.

Right I am off to weigh now. Will give a number when I get back.

Totally agree about the clothes thing. Also whay do they thing averyone over a size 14 is 6ft tall. I am 5'2" ffs!

Yep, the stomach will always be there in one form or another ... I really look forward to the pouch of skin that will be left when all the weight is gone Dh's present to me when it's all gone can be a tummy tuck and a boob lift, I think ...

I've had a look at some Simply Be stuff before but wasn't too fussed about it ... plus I found at the time that it was the exact same catalogue as one called Fifty Plus, which didn't really endear me to the styles!! Maybe time for another look though.

American clothing is much easier to get in larger sizes. I know that size is a bigger issue over there but when almost 50% of the female population in this country is size size 16 or over you'd think someone would have noticed that we need to buy clothes too ...

Yes - I believe the US has a much better choice of clothes than the UK. Any word on Kaz, sue?

Haven't had a great week, so will be lucky if I've stayed the same. Will have to weigh and email later than normal, because DD and I have dentist appointments after school today.

Oh yes, Tawny - I'm only 5'4" and everything is miles too long for me. Trying on trousers at the weekend just confirmed that, too. Comically long, almost all of them.

I find that Evans standard length are way too long for me and I'm 5'9" so not exactly short! I've often thought that if they're too long on me, heaven help the short arses Although that said, their cotton jersey ones do shrink considerably when you first wash them.

M&S do trousers in three lengths, if that helps - they go up to size 28, although I find their sizes come up a bit small.

Yes - the M&S short length is just about OK for me, depending on style. I've got some jeans from there that are perfect, but I've also got some wide-legged kind of viscose jersey trousers that even when I was a size 22, were a bit too long, so if it rained, the bottoms of them would get all wet. And now they kind of slide down even more and are completely useless. I might have to buy some more, otherwise I have no trousers I can wear for work. All the ones I tried on at the weekend made me look like I was wearing some sort of hideous uniform, really not flattering, even though they were fitting OK.

And less of the short-arse, WWB.

Sorry ...

It's OK really - I'm used to it.

Trousers are weird when you're big ... too fitted and you look like Tweedledum, but anything other than fitted makes you look as if you're carrying a couple of sacks of coal down your knickers.

pmsl at 'couple of sacks of coal down you knickers'. I see people at work wearing trousers, and they look perfectly OK. But then again, they're slim. Or maybe I need to wear them as part of a suit - no, I really can't do that - it would look even more like a uniform, I suspect. Maybe just stick with the wide legged ones for now, and even contemplate getting them shortened .

My problem is that, considering the rest of me, I don't have a very big bottom and my legs are quite slim - so to get the fit around my stomach the trousers hang off my bottom in a fetching, baggy, "I've got a couple of sacks of coal shoved down there" kind of way. Despite the fact there's nothing there except fresh air.

I'm a very strange shape

You see - that emoticon is coming in very handy, isn't it? There's a girl in the building I work in who must be the same sort of shape as you - she's bigger than me on top, but definitely much smaller in the bum and legs. I'm more of an hourglass - big norks and hips/bum (and thighs), but with a (relatively) small waist in between. So maybe there's the answer to the question - we're all such different shapes, it would be difficult for manufacturers to make things to suit all of us. Bugger.

Hmmm, maybe you're right (Yep, there's that emoticon again).

But even slim people come in different shapes and sizes, and the manufacturers seem to be able to cope with that ... although maybe it's just that there's so much more choice of places to shop when you're slim - if the trousers from Next don't fit well, you just buy them from Gap.

I'm feeling better though bemused as I have lost a pound. Interestingly I seem to be half and inch shorter too - maybe that explains the loss against all normal laws of physics

I did have a haircut last week - would that explain the height and weight loss?

Hmmm. Were you inadvertently scalped, perhaps?

Have lost a pound and a half this week, so feeling quite happy.

Upcoming week will be more tricky as I'm away for two days for a photography conference and I know there will be limited (and not terribly healthy) food choices.

yay I have lost 2 and a half pounds. 6 in all. I am chuffed to bits.

Well done all - though a bit strange about suejonez, The Amazing Shrinking Woman.

Regarding the clothes thing, have any of you got a shop near you called 'yours' it used to be size up. There clothes are good and a damned sight cheaper than Evans.

Awful use of there instead of their. I am hanging my head in shame as I type

Never seen that one, Tawny. Are they online?