Would You Treat Your Kid Like That?

The other day I was listening to a podcast by Jillian Michaels, famous/infamous trainer from The Biggest Loser. She was talking about meeting some of the latest contestants for the upcoming TBL season. She said she had asked one of the men what he most looked forward to and he told her to own a nice pair of slacks. She was suprised by this and he explained that he had very few clothes he could wear and what he did have was ripped or worn out. He just didn't want to buy clothes in his size always thinking he would lose weight. So she asked the question, "Would you treat your kid like that? Would you send him to school in rags?"

Now, I don't have any kids, but I would imagine if I did my answer to that question would be "Hell no!" But yet I treat myself this way. I am just like that guy Jillian was talking about. Even though I have a professional, corporate job, I have crappy clothes and look crappy when I go to work. I do not look like the degreed and certified accountant that I am. I have 1 pair of khakis, 1 pair of jeans, 1 pair of capris (also khaki) and one pair of black pants that have a busted zipper and have to be safety-pinned. These are the 4 things I rotate each week along with some crappy t-shirts, mostly the same one in varying colors. There have been weeks I have worn the same pair of jeans 3 of the 5 days....always skipping days in between hoping no one will notice.

I am stuck, just like that TBL contestant, not wanting to buy clothes in my size because "I am going to lose weight" and don't want to waste the money. Then I don't lose weight and I have spent 6, 7, 8 months wearing the same things over and over until they are worn out. Once they are worn out I keep wearing them awhile longer and then I finally cave in and go buy a few more ugly, poorly made, overpriced pieces of polyester crap to wear (I am looking at you, Lane Bryant) and start the process over again.

No more. Yes, I am fat but I still deserve to try to look as nice as I can. This weekend I am going shopping for work clothes. I would never send my kid to school in the same crappy clothes over and over and I am not going to do it to myself anymore either. If they are too big in a couple of months, so be it. Someone shopping at Goodwill who needs larger sizes can benefit from my success.

That is all. Oh....if you are interested in Jillian's weekly podcast, you can download it here. http://kfiam640.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=SUNDAY.xml .She does the live show on Sunday mornings and the podcast is usually up by the next day. I've learned quite a bit listening to her show.