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  • bmeadows380
    bmeadows380 Posts: 2,981 Member
    28Haveitall2020 wrote: »
    What is the concept of fat brain?? Trying to get a grap from reading the comments please.

    Thanks

    another big example would be in buying clothes as I'm still fighting this one. I wore between a size 26W to a 32W and 5xL for over 20 years of my life. I've lost enough weight that I am now wearing 18W's and am in a XL. However, whenever I buy clothing, my first inclination is to grab at least the size 24W's off the rack. Even the clothes that I have in my closet still look to small to me. I washed my jeans and hung them out to dry the other day, and marveled as I pinned them to the clothes line on how tiny they looked to me :)

    Course to someone wearing a size 2, a size 18W would look huge, but for someone who started out in a 32W, 18W is teeny lol


    Then there's the chair and booth. I hated sitting in booths in restaurants because there was never enough room between me and the table. Now, my brain's first thought when I come to a booth space is to think I won't fit, even though I now have plenty of clearance between me and the table.

    Fat brain strikes in all sorts of situations - will this chair hold me? Can I fit through that turnstile? Can I do this activity? Its a mental distortion of current reality based upon your past lifestyle.
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    bmeadows380 wrote: »
    28Haveitall2020 wrote: »
    What is the concept of fat brain?? Trying to get a grap from reading the comments please.

    Thanks

    another big example would be in buying clothes as I'm still fighting this one. I wore between a size 26W to a 32W and 5xL for over 20 years of my life. I've lost enough weight that I am now wearing 18W's and am in a XL. However, whenever I buy clothing, my first inclination is to grab at least the size 24W's off the rack. Even the clothes that I have in my closet still look to small to me. I washed my jeans and hung them out to dry the other day, and marveled as I pinned them to the clothes line on how tiny they looked to me :)

    Course to someone wearing a size 2, a size 18W would look huge, but for someone who started out in a 32W, 18W is teeny lol


    Then there's the chair and booth. I hated sitting in booths in restaurants because there was never enough room between me and the table. Now, my brain's first thought when I come to a booth space is to think I won't fit, even though I now have plenty of clearance between me and the table.

    Fat brain strikes in all sorts of situations - will this chair hold me? Can I fit through that turnstile? Can I do this activity? Its a mental distortion of current reality based upon your past lifestyle.

    The clothing thing is partial fat brain and partial INCONSISTENT SIZING. Just when I think I am doing well I run into a shirt that would normally be my size that is too small or outerwear that I want to be one size up and it feels more like 2 sizes up.

    Who can win?!?

    However, my clothing fat brain is better than it once was. I was, by the accounts of my wife and mother, looking ridiculous in my 'tent' shirts.
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    This may not be true of anyone else but Lee shirts/jeans are all snug on me at the same size of Wrangler that fit comfortably.
  • bmeadows380
    bmeadows380 Posts: 2,981 Member
    same thing I've noticed in the women's sizes, too. Lee is snugger than others. Walmart's Rider's Jeans for women are as well.

    The Levi's I've gotten at Walmart are fine in the waist, but they seem to be narrow in the thighs which makes it rather frustrating because I have to buy a size up which then makes the waist too big. Belts have become an absolute necessary fashion accessory for me.....

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