25 years and younger (pre-children days) I couldn’t put on weight if I tried.  If I topped at 130 pounds that was a bad year.  Eating anything I wanted, drinking anything I wanted, and exercise what’s that?  I could just walk into any store I wanted and pick something off of the rack or shelf.  If I liked it…it was mine.  No trying anything on.  That was a waste of time.  I knew what my sizes were.

Now I’m 29 years old with two children under my belt.  Do I know what my sizes are?  Of course!  Can I just buy something without trying it on?  Oh hell no!  Even after I spend 3 hours looking for clothes in the Misses or Women’s section that I may actually want to wear…my next problem is finding the XL /XXL top or the size 14/16 pants!  That’s right, I’m exposing myself!  I’m not ashamed of my new bigger body.  My husband and my children love me as much as I love myself.  What I DON’T love is that there are hardly any clothes for me to wear and that I actually look good in!

Even if I was still my size 7 self as I said before I’m 29 years old now.  I shouldn’t be shopping in the Juniors section any longer.  But good God…does that really mean I have to graduate into old fucking lady looking clothes?  Size Medium/7 or XL/14 there is hardly anything I find in the departments I should be shopping in that I would even consider buying!  Ah ha then comes the extremely hard part!  I actually locate a shirt or pants or whatever that I like.  Small, small, XS, mediums galore, a couple large, and if I’m lucky the one XL or XXL.  Then off to try on my new findings (which took 2 hours of rack searching to locate)…and son of a bitch!  It looks like shit on me!  Dammit I’m back to square one!

Come on people!!!  Hate to bring out the statistics but according to the CDC in 2007:

Percent of adults age 20 years and over who are overweight or obese: 66.3

That’s ALOT of people who are not wearing smalls and mediums!  Not to say there shouldn’t be plenty of those still available to people who can wear them.  But could you start accommodating the rest of us as well?