This is a well deserved win for me and my family. I have been doing the dreaded challenge of finding a new swim suit without any polyester in it. As a woman I have always found swimsuit shopping very hard. There are a lot of body image issues involved. As a child Twiggy was the body ideal. Even as a child that body ideal was impossible for me to achieve. Not even Twiggy can safely achieve that image.
Body image had nothing to do with what my bone structure. I happen to have a larger bone structure. It had everything to do with a families relationship with food. Growing up mine had a lot of starch with moderate amounts of meat and even fewer vegetables and mostly canned fruit and vegetables because it was cheaper. Mostly classified as a poor Eastern European poor families diet in the 1960’s. An immigrants diet.
Not to mention that my mom constantly reminded me how fat I was no matter how boney I was. That nobody liked fat girls. So a perfect recipe for disaster in my own body image necessary to be comfortable in wearing a swimsuit.
To my complete surprise today, I found a swimsuit 2 sizes smaller than my last 2 swimsuit purchases. I was totally blown away by the fact. After going to 2 different stores. Then trying to find the swimsuits. I was blown away that they had moved the swimsuits to the clearance section even before summer solstice. This required 2 walks around the women’s department. Trying on the swimsuits. Finally finding one that fit. I was too tired to even do the happy dance. I was disappointed that there was not a bench to sit on while waiting to check out.
I came home and slept solidly for 2 hours. Waking up too late to make our planned dinner. We landed up eating scrambled eggs and mixed vegetables with fresh fruit for dessert.
TTFN
