Apparently my loose fitting clothing is giving people who haven't known me before this year the WRONG impression - one that I am with child.
Now, I thought the first time I would let it pass. I was wearing a dress and my tummy did feel a little more jiggly than usual, so I guess one could assume I am of childbearing age and possibly carrying one.
Then, again, I was asked. This time I could not ignore that I must still look pregnant even though I delivered almost one year ago. I was dumbfounded both times and could not figure out what to say. Here are a few thoughts:
Mind your own business
I just miscarried
Dec. 1........2006 (which was really his due date)
What are your ideas on how to respond?
I guess I'm taking it as reminders to stop eating so much junk and exercise more. Although it does hurt my feelings.
I told my husband because when we married I was a size 6. I have kept just a few items when I was cleaning out the closet before we moved to remind me how small I used to be. I am now not a size 6. I am a 12 on a good day. Does that mean that I am twice as large?
I haven't actually measured myself nor do we have a scale for me to go by. I do know that the clothes I bought to wear when I went back to work after having Grant seem to be a little tight. Which means that I have GAINED weight since January.
Perhaps this is hard for me because I have been small all my life and have always been able to eat whatever I want. I did not gain much weight with either of my pregnancies - 23 pounds with Grayson and 18 with Grant.
I have always known that if I did gain too much weight I would have a hard time losing it.
And that seems to be holding true. Which is why I get asked - when's it due?
3 comments:
don't know what to say to people sweetie. unfortunatly tie marches on and it does it across our hind ends & other places. :) I hear you & I feel for you. {{{{HUGS}}}}
Hey! Where have you been?? We've missed you on Lil Turkeys!!! Miki
I don't have a clever comeback, either ~ I figure it will mortify THEM as much as me to realize they were wrong, and they'll be kicking themselves forever ...
I wish I could say I was ever a 6, LOL. Okay, maybe once or twice, for a week. But mostly not.
Right now I weigh what I weighed when I got married, give or take, but it's all distributed differently, and not in a good way.
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