I HATE Shopping!

[Vanquisher]

With a burning fiery passion, I hate it! It makes me feel like complete crap, is totally demoralizing, and just sucks. I can't, for the life of me, understand why some of you whom I love so much could be so wacky in the head to enjoy this torture.

I give up. I am going to the Caribbean in t-shirts, capris, mandals, and a fanny pack! I just want to cry.



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[scrub-jay]

I loved it for about 10 minutes - when I reached my goal weight, looked and felt wonderful. However, that was soon replaced with morning sickness galore. Now I'm back to avoiding shopping at all costs.

[L.Jane]

I am with you. I hate shopping. Especially shoe shopping. Its a torture I wouldn't wish on anyone. I have size 4.5 feet with a funky arch and finding dressy shoes that fit me is next to impossible. OK if I wanted to wear Dora shoes, I would be all good. Plus I am short but busty, so clothes either fit in the bust, or the length, but rarely both. Its torture torture torture.

[houseelf]

I'm so sorry. It is really frustrating. I don't enjoy shopping for myself anymore. I channel it to my kids.

[Meenah]

Sign me up!

[Vanquisher]

I don't think a year-long fashion bootcamp could help me unless the first 9 months of that were spent undergoimg various plastic surgeries. My boobs are freaking enormous on top of my hippo body. Button up shirt? Never. Empire waist? Not enough fabric to cover 30% of what I got up top let alone trying to EVER go sans bra with spagetti straps or halter or strapless tops. I feel like a freaking stripper in most tops, if, and only if I can even get the top ON. Bigger sizes only look like tents everywhere else. And this is just the chest problems. I wont even go into my arms, ass, thighs, and dreaded stomach issues.


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[Sheherezade]

I'm with you, too, Heidi. I think it's when you don't have the body type that is currently in fashion -- or that the current fashions flatter. I have gained a lot of knowledge from the book "What Not To Wear" and I even bought the Lucky magazine shopping manual. It's pathetic, I know. I am not born to this at all. I can't choose what flatters me and I end up getting depressed when I try on totally inappropriate outfits. Then, I buy something I LOVE and have nothing to wear it with. It's not a skill every woman has.

Don't get down on you. Frankly, shopping used to be easier when clothing was made in more sizes and more accurate sizing systems. Even better, clothing was probably GREAT when it was custom made for each body. *sigh* Then, you'd never have the experience of trying on fifteen things that just don't fit right. You'd just have to avoid growing OUT of something.

[GrayMatterWife]

I hate shopping, too. Not just for clothes--pretty much for anything. Other than books. Shopping is a time-suck.

[ladymoreta]

I hate it, too. I usually try on a ridiculous number of things, end up feeling like a fat cow, and buying the one or two things that don't make me hate myself. Flattering, not a chance...

[L.Jane]

My biggest issue is, I try something on, think it looks great on me, am so excited. Then I go out, get a picture taken of me and think, omg I actually wore that. I hate those trick dressing room mirrors.

[medpedspouse]

I hear you! I like to shop but only when I am feeling good about how I look in the clothes which is usually winter. Winter clothes just seem so much more forgiving. I'm short and busty and I hate, hate getting stuff altered. I am an immediate gratification sort of gal. I buy and I want to wear....plus I am cheap. However, I will say that those few pieces that I have gotten altered, I love how I look in them. So, what I am trying to say Heidi is that since you have some time before the trip, buy a few staples such as jeans, khakis, a white shirt, a dress, etc. and get them altered to fit you. If you have a pair of capris you like, they could always be shortened to bermuda shorts.

ETA - This is your first vacation together since all the training hellishness. I so wish for this trip to be stress free and make you both feel recharged. I may be projecting....but there is nothing sadder than when I get back and look at myself in pics and think "why did I wear that?" and don't want to look at the pics again. I would hate for you to feel anything but the awesome person you are. The fanny pack can wait for the next vacay.

[JaneDoe]

Add me to the list of shopping haters! In some cases, like buying furniture, I actually find it stressful. When I do shop I'm more a surgical strike type shopper: go in, get what I need and get out.

[houseelf]

It's funny that you complain about the boob thing from the opposite end of the spectrum because I'm definitely not well endowed and find that too many clothes are just too "booby". I don't like things that are low cut and I feel like that most shirts are cut too low unless I buy petite. I don't necessarily need masectomy coverage, but I'm definitely not comfortable with most necklines. I don't want to be at the playground worrying whether the girls are falling out. It is very frustrating for me to find cute tops that are age appropriate.

One of the big issues with the boobs is that often times you end up buying a shirt 1 or 2 sizes bigger so that the girls will fit. Then the rest hangs off like a tent, which is definitely irritating when you've worked hard to lose weight. I've gone down 4 pant sizes over the past year, but only 2 shirt sizes, due in part to my boobs.

[mommax3]

I have the boob issue too and it is extremely frustrating. I am not a skinny girl, but my boobs are bigger than the rest of me (proportionately), and I barely have shoulders, which makes things even harder. Shopping is not really a fun thing for me, although I still manage to do a fair amount of it!