I just read Sally’s post on jeans. In particular, her comment about the evil fit model who causes her to pay to have the extra foot of fabric removed after spending WAY to much money already.
For any of you who have ever wondered who that tall, skinny (bitch) fit model is, it’s my friend Maureen Gannon. Sadly, despite being the industry’s “perfect” size eight, she is a lovely, hilarious, quick witted and wonderful person.
Maureen was born under a lucky star it seems. There is this little thing called genetics that has kept her employed lo these twenty plus years. This is a gal whose mom filled in for her at work while she was on her honeymoon-need I say more?!
At 5′9″ and less than my weight (I am 5′4″, that’s embarassing!) she manages to drink only whole milk. Honestly, I look at homogenized milk and my jeans get tighter!! I don’t think Maureen has ever been on a diet in her life! In fact, after her daughter was born 18 months ago, a few of us had to get after her to gain a bit of weight back. Can I hear a shout out from all of the other moms that has ever happened to?? Didn’t think so.
During the many years of our friendship, I have learned a little something about Maureen’s relationship with food. The funny thing is, it is the same lesson that I am learning about clothes through TGAAD. Don’t eat/buy unless you are truly hungry. Buy/eat only the perfect thing that will satisfy your craving for taste and need. Dessert and over-consumption in the shopping department are both overrated. Buying/eating things we don’t need will not bring you happiness. Eating/buying to mask a problem won’t make the problem go away–you’ll just end up broke or fat or both.
In fact, even with the apparel diet, I find myself thinking about shopping less than I normally do though the time I have spent thinking about it has not been rife with images of lost opportunities but rather, reflective thinking about what all of that spending got me to begin with! As for the food side of all of this, my other diet has finally stuck and I managed to ditch 8 pounds. I am hoping that they don’t try to find me!!
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O.K. Maureen? She was probably a pig in a past life, right? I love to mee a beautiful funny woman, e.g. Tina Fey. But more importantly and pertinent to my afternoon…how’d you lose that eight pounds?