The Thanksgiving Resolution

The heck with New Years, I’m doing Thanksgiving resolutions this year. They are pretty much the same as my deployment goals but I haven’t been doing very well on those. Though I did manage to get lucky on black Friday and revamp my wardrobe a bit. Let’s start there.

Clothes:

For years now I’ve been burying myself under baggy hoodies. Rare is the day you see me in anything else since moving to WA in 2007. It’s always just chilly enough to make me think I need one. So the first thing I did on Black Friday was try and find tops that both were warm, but not baggy and sloppy. Wait, that wasn’t the first. The FIRST was hitting Victoria’s Secret and getting some bras, I had them fit me earlier in the week. All I can say is I wish I’d learned the Secret years ago. I’ve been running around in bras that weren’t the right size and had little to no support. I’m not big busted by any means, just your average B or C depending on the style. But I had my band size wrong. Since buying new Vickie’s bras however, Hello Bombshell is right. Well, maybe a Mortar  Shell, but still.  So shirts were the second thing.

I hit JC Penney’s Junior clearance racks and found a few cute tshirts, both short and long sleeved. And Fitted, not baggy. Then I grabbed a couple of their Early Birds, one a nice warm fitted vneck sweater, the other a long sleeved fitted shirt. Shirts were really hard to find this year, very frustrating.

Then, Jeans…My cousin, who was with me, told me Aeropastale jeans last forever. So I tried some on, and instantly loved them. Aside from the fact that I have no butt. I now have two brands of Jeans that fit perfectly, the first being Levi’s. I had great timing, Aero was having an everything 50% off sale.

All that’s left to my  "quit hiding under my clothes resolution" now are some nice shoes that aren’t sneakers, and a non bulky but warm enough for WA jacket.

This way of dressing may be high cost, but you do get what you pay for. If I don’t buy in bulk and spread my purchases throughout the year, and look for sales and specials, it should be quite manageable.

Fitness:

This is where I have been slacking off. I just keep procrastinating. However, I have found my motivation, thanks to my 14 year old daughter. She was blessed with My great grandmother’s and my mother’s Lose Weight Exercise issues. She’ll likely fight it her whole life. See our family is strange. traits skip generations of women. My Great Grammy, Mom, and daughter have the Lose Weight Exercise struggle. My Grandmother, and myself have the skinny genes, bipolar, and digestive problems. Anyhow, thanks to her school not having Gym year round, and the quality of their school lunches (burgers, pizzas, nachos, etc) she’s gained around 10 pounds since school started. So I’ve decided to make her my workout buddy. We’ll go to the gym mon/wed/fri and walk on tue/thurs. Weekends we’ll take off. This way, we’re doing something together, and it benefits us both. I’m also going to start packing her lunches, and teach her as best I can about portion control and heallthier eating, so she can still have foods she enjoys.

Ever try telling a fourteen year old girl that she needs to watch her Lose Weight Exercise, without her thinking you’re calling her fat???

Social:

This is going to be the hardest part. Getting out and trying to be social. I’ve never had an easy time making friends. It was something that was so easy as a kid and now so hard as an adult. So I’m going to start attending our FRG meetings regularly, and whatever activities they have that aren’t off post. I’ve isolated myself for so long I’m just not sure where to go from here. But I’m trying.

All that being said, Hunny left an antisocial, out of shape wife with a decent body shape buried under baggy hoodies…when he comes back I want him to see a bombshell wife, that leaves the house and can be social without being scared and awkward.

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