Story: Extra Extra

How was it then?

I hated shopping for clothes because nothing ever fit. It was humiliating and disheartening to try on item after item and have them not fit. The clothing that is made for large people is usually not shapely or fashionable, and it usually looks like it was made for someone twice my age.

I hated having to buy things that were XXL or XXXL. Or even bigger. Just before I started my recovery, I had some 4XL and 5XL shirts. On the one hand, I was happy that I could buy clothes that actually fit on my body, but looking at those sizes was so depressing.

~ A Food Addict

How is it now?

I went shopping the other day and bought a shirt that was sized as “medium”. This blew my mind. And there were so many shirts in the store that fit me. I had an actual choice of what to buy, instead of being forced to buy the only thing in the store that both fit me and didn’t make me look like I had zero sense of how to dress myself.

~ A Recovering Food Addict