Weight loss is bad for my wallet!!

October 19, 2003

Hi all!

I've noticed that the past couple months - while telling myself not to buy

too many new clothes that I'll just shrink out of - that I'm

really spending quite a bit of money on clothes! Every time I go to Target,

I look at the clearance racks, and I'm feeling myself becoming almost Jekyll

& Hyde-ish!! Today I had an internal argument with myself over 2 adorable

pairs of shorts!! I couldn't decide if I wanted the dark gray or light gray

and figured that since they were on clearance for $2.48 each I could get

both. However, I didn't need them. I wanted to buy them because they fit

and they were a size Large instead of an Extra-Large!! They were too short

for me to exercise in and the weather is getting cooler and they'd (hopefully)

be way too big for me by next summer!! I didn't buy them today, but I did

buy 2 tank tops for $4 each (ones that I do exercise in) and

more underwear!! (I must have a dozen+ new pairs of underwear,

but I went with the daring thong-style today!! ;-) ) Also, most of my shoes

are too big and need to be replaced! I was wearing a 7 1/2W - 8 (depending

on width) and now I'm wearing 6W - 7 - I even bought an adorable pair of

boots at Payless Shoe Source because they actually fit around my calves!!

To coin a phrase from the gone-but-not-forgotten (in my household)

Powter, I need to STOP THE INSANITY!!!! Granted, I never pay full price

for anything, and I'm not running myself into debt doing this (I still spend

less on clothes than I used to on cigarettes), but sometimes I feel like

I'm trading my food addiction for a life as a shopaholic!! I've even got

half my Christmas shopping done!!! I know it's the new-ness of it all that's

getting me all excited. At the beginning of summer, I was just getting into

an XL for the first time in 10+ years, and now I'm finding more and more

L that fit, and it's all very exciting. I just need to start leaving my

cash/checks/ATM card at home!! Have any of you gone through this? How did

you keep from going overboard?!

Hugs,

Jen

Menlo Park, CA

Kaiser/PB - 3/14/03

261/184/140

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