If I thought I was unclear as to what my style was before I embarked upon this diet I am now officially stupified! This week I went to a great clothing swap with lots of really good second hand apparel. I came home with a white t-shirt, a black sweater and a pair of blue jeans. More of the same. There were prints, velvets and fancy skirts, wrap-around-dresses and plenty of accessories and I got….a white t-shirt. I think I’m frozen now that I haven’t bought anything for a while. Clothing is simply not that interesting to me these days, especially if it takes some thinking to put an outfit together. Have I gotten lazy or just more confused. Not sure but I now have seven white t-shirts, over 11 black sweaters and more jeans than I can count. Someone, save me from myself.
O.K. I’m wrapping up the latest poll. And the results are in…more people think this diet is easy than hard. That said, it’s easier by a thin margin. 58% of you said it is relatively easy and 42% said it was hard. For me it all depends on the day. Today it’s hard, tomorrow it might be easier. I think about the pre diet era. There were days when I wasn’t feeling all that good e.g., bad hair day, ridiculous work meeting, argument with my seven year old. My immediate reaction, conscious or subconscious, was to go buy something for myself. Often times it was something completely wrong and poorly made and probably on sale (hence my closet full of crap). It was an emotional impulse.
So, a couple of months ago I bought a pair of cute sneakers – grey suede with pink shoe laces…not too crazy, but enough to be ‘fun’. Or so I thought…My 19 year old sees me walking into the living room the other day with my jeans, t-shirt and my ‘cute sneakers’ and says…”Mom, what are you thinking?” I say, “What?” She proceeds to tell me that from the knees up I look like a mature ‘acceptable’ 50 year old woman, but “what’s up with those sneakers? You look like a 10 year old!” Oh boy, was I surprised…and I felt like a dork. So now my cute grey and pink sneakers have a different meaning. Was I trying too hard to be young or was it REALLY how I felt? I didn’t think they were ‘young’, I just liked them – a lot. So, the question becomes this…how do we know when we’re trying too hard to be youthful when we’re not feeling old in the first place? All I can say is that I’m so glad I don’t have to think about clothes right now since I apparently can’t even get the shoes right!
Rebecca Kotch…these rings are for you! The company is called 
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