When I started the GAAD, I wrote myself a little get out of jail card. Since I will be relocating to Hawaii for next three years, I wanted to make sure I would be guaranteed a big shopping spree to buy more summer clothes. But it was supposed to be ONE shopping trip for summer clothes. Not two, or three, which is what I have done this week. If there were streets named “the Great American Apparel Cheaters Road,” I will be walking on it right now. I am ashamed.
There is an excuse for everything, of course. My initial trip to Marshalls was purely to just do my ONE summer clothes trip. But once the gate was wide open (in this case the doors of Marshalls), I could not stop myself. I ended up buying four summer dresses, one t-shirt and one pair of shorts. I tried on many, many more. I even skipped lunch so I could try more clothes. So I should have stopped there, then I thought..well, my sister gave me a LOFT card for my birthday, I better not let it go to waste! So the next day, I headed to the mall and went to LOFT. Then I bought two Navy work dresses with gift card. I am not sure if this counts as cheating or not since I did not really spend my own money. Hm, maybe Sally can clarify the rules on gift cards for clothing stores. Oops! I digressed. Anyway, back to my cheating story. My last cheating happened on a leisure Sunday afternoon at a store I am not usually attempted to buy any clothes. This place wasn’t Marshalls nor LOFT where their clothes attract me like bee to copious amount of honey. Where was it?
It was WALMART. Yes, I cheated in Walmart. I bought the below shirt I am wearing under black blazer.
Why did I do it? One, this was Miley Cyrus/Max Azria product. Miley, I do not care for so much (sorry girl!) but Max Azria? The guy who is responsible for BCBG Azria clothing? I was hooked. Then the shirt was on sale for $3. I couldn’t help it. Ka-ching.
After my three deliberate failures, I almost gave this diet up completely. I even wrote to Sally that I should quit. I have weird “all of nothing” obsession with many things in life so I felt so ashamed at my failure at this diet. And I know why I did it. I have been very stressed lately. My family and I are getting ready to move to Hawaii and the process has been little more complicated than we would have liked. It’s been nerve wrecking. I know I sound like a big whiner when moving to a tropical island but trust me, relocating your entire family as well as yourself in less than two months from Maryland to Hawaii or anywhere for that matter, is not that easy. So anyway, that was my poor excuse for the three different cheats. When I used to be heavier, I would have just eaten more. But now it seems I just buy more new clothes. My clothes are my new food.
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