{"id":287,"date":"2014-08-14T17:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T23:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2015-03-29T17:32:42","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T23:32:42","slug":"shopping-sucks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/?p=287","title":{"rendered":"Shopping Sucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping is awful. There are parts that I love and parts that I absolutely hate. It is awesome to get smaller and smaller but it&#8217;s so hard to say goodbye to your favorite clothes over and over again. Eventually, I had to go into stores and figure out how to put things on my body.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image5.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-283\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image5-300x300.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"image\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image5.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image5.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image5.jpg?w=378&amp;ssl=1 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My whole adult life I&#8217;ve only shopped at plus size stores. These stores seem to have the same styles over and over in several colors. I tended to buy the same shirt in several colors. I would basically buy anything that looked pretty good. You don&#8217;t get many choices in plus size stores. So when it came time to start shopping in a new store, I didn&#8217;t even know where to go. Are there only certain stores that I should go to? Which ones are for teenagers? Which ones are for old ladies? I asked my friends where to go and would check out the clientele before walking in to a new store. If it felt weird, I left.<\/p>\n<p>I used to get anxious shopping at my heaviest weight too. I wasn&#8217;t ever sure things would fit or they would carry my size. I still feel that way. I still don&#8217;t know what will fit and what won&#8217;t. When I pick something up in the store, I have no idea if it&#8217;s the right size. Certain stores are easier to shop than others. If you&#8217;re getting frustrated or depressed, just leave. Don&#8217;t let cotton fibers change your mood. Some stores size by inches which totally threw me off. When I was recently shopping at H&amp;M, I almost started crying. They size their jeans by inches. I have no idea how many inches I am and when I hold them up, I still don&#8217;t know if they will fit. I know lots of people that love this store but I can never figure it out. Nothing seems to fit me right and I can&#8217;t say I&#8217;ve ever purchased anything but hair accessories. I just can&#8217;t crack the code so I just don&#8217;t go there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image6.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-284\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/yogapantsdiary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/image6.jpg?resize=272%2C185\" alt=\"image\" width=\"272\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So moral of the story. Shopping sucks when losing weight but most places require you to not be naked. If a store doesn&#8217;t feel right, go to a different one. If shopping brings you to tears, use your oversized shirt to mop them up and try again another day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shopping is awful. There are parts that I love and parts that I absolutely hate. It is awesome to get smaller and smaller but it&#8217;s so hard to say goodbye to your favorite clothes over and over again. Eventually, I had to go into stores and figure out how to put things on my body. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/?p=287\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Shopping Sucks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4PFDd-4D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288,"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yogapantsdiary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}