One of the biggest differences I saw in my presents from previous years to this year was that lots of people gave me clothes! As an overweight person, people tend not to give you clothes as gifts. I think this is for a few reasons. Most people probably don’t want to guess your size and accidentally offend you by it being too small or too large. Which in my case, they were usually too small. 
Another reason is that not all stores carry plus sizes. So to get a pair of yoga pants for everyone you know, would require a separate trip to a separate store to get something for someone who is plus size. Most 2X’s in the store would not fit me at my heaviest weight. I needed a 2X from a plus size store. To someone who has been shopping regular sizes their whole life, this is a totally foreign concept. They might not even realize that there’s a difference.
Another reason is because overweight people don’t really request clothes which would require having to give their size. My mom would often give me and my sister similar gifts for Christmas, a like a nice pair of pajamas. She would have to ask my husband what my size was, who would guess, and they would never fit. I remember a particular Christmas she wanted to get us luxurious jammies from Victoria Secret. Nothing from the entire store would fit me so she went to a plus size store. My sister ended up with a cute, silky and sexy PJ set. I ended up with a rhinestone sleep shirt/dress. Now this was not my mom’s intent. She just wanted to get us something we would never get for ourselves. But this is a perfect example of how shopping for plus size people is super difficult, especially if you’ve never been plus size. I ended up returning the jammies that year for something else.
So most people just play it safe and give you a scarf or a book. I have more scarves and books than I could ever use! (Good thing I love both!)
But this year I got all kinds of cute new things! Almost everything fit and a few things were actually too big! I had requested a few shirts for the gym and a nice sweatshirt. There is a brand, let’s call them…….The South Face, that always has super cute sweatshirts. You see them all the time around Denver. They are a great brand but their sizes run small. If I’m a Medium in everything else, I’m a large with them. Large is their largest size as well. So it was kind of a weird goal of mine to be able to own and wear one of these sweatshirts! Santa left it under the tree!
I feel like the gifts you receive for Christmas is the image of yourself you’ve put out into the world. My husband is pretty reserved with his coworkers and friends in life. He ended up with coffee from almost everyone he knew because that’s the image he’s created for himself. I got all sorts of fitness and health orientated things! So that tells me that’s what people see in me now. That’s what they know I enjoy and want to be a part of.
If you forgot to send a gift……….I need new running shoes! Size 10. Must be cute.