My knickers have shrunk in the wash…

A strange thing has been happening in my household of late. Somehow, all my knickers have shrunk in the wash. Stranger still, my jeans and my tops and my shirts all seem to have done the same.

Surely, there cannot be any other reason why virtually all my clothes no longer seem to fit me?

It’s difficult with my current back problems to get dressed at the best of times, but when you have to try on several items of clothing, while wracked with pain before finding something that actually fits, it’s no joke.

As for my back pain, it doesn’t seem to want to subside in a hurry. I have just tried to have a lie down and really it is not worth my doing it. Even in bed, it is difficult and then when I get up the pain in simply getting out of bed is incredible.

We had to go out today and buy me some new knickers and PJ’s. I won’t tell you what size! Hopefully, now I won’t struggle so much in finding knickers that fit in the mornings.

I know it can’t possibly be my fault that these items don’t fit? Surely not! Just because I have been making new lemon cake every couple of days it can’t be down to that? We only have a small piece at lunch, another for afternoon tea and another for dessert. Such a small piece of cake can’t possibly be making me so ‘Rubenesque’? Rubens would delight in my curviness perhaps…. he certainly painted ladies who were fuller figured!

Just in case, I think I might need to adjust my diet and get those curves under control, before I go so far off the scale that I can’t get any knickers that fit. Comfort eating is all very well at the time and can feel like it is well worth the calories, but if I continue to blossom in this way I will perhaps need to find someone to specially make my clothing from my knickers upwards.

Just in case my eating has something to do with my gaining such a full figured physique, I think I’d best cut back on the eating and see if I can recover enough to fit some of the ‘one day I hope to fit these’ section in my wardrobe. It seems like this section has become larger in my wardrobe than the clothes I can fit right now. If I’m not careful, my new PJ’s and underwear will be all that I can fit and I won’t be able to be decently clad enough to leave the house and go out in public.

I’ll report back about my progress down the scale and hopefully I will soon be recovering my more slender physique.

I can but try!