Motivational stillettos
It’s been a while since I’ve had time to blog. I’ve been busy with the new job which has kept me too busy to binge. That’s a plus but the minus is CANKLES! That’s right CANKLES, ugly, swollen, purple hued, hang over your shoe Cankles.
For those of you too young or too thin to know what cankles are I’ll explain: Cankles are where your calf and foot meet. It’s the spot on your body where your ankles should be. However instead of a thin, bony area connecting calf and foot you have a puffy, bulging, purplish, pillow of fat with a consistency slightly firmer than marshmallow. The only thin and delicate part of my body I had left is gone.
I’m on my feet for 8 hours a day working my make-up magic and skin care savy. I’m there to help people feel and look beautiful and sell wonderful Origins products. I’m a licensed aesthetician, experienced and expert. I should inspire confidence not horror. When you need beauty advice do you want it from a woman wobbling around on swollen inner tubes of purple flesh?
The worst part of cankles on a fat girl is shoes. As a fat girl fashion is limited. In clothing Versace does not make size 18, you will not find Marc Jacobs in XXL or Donna Karen large enough to contain jello thighs. In shoes though, you can wear any designer you want (you may not be able to pay your mortgage after buying designer shoes but they do come in your size).
My point is shoes are the even playing field of fat and thin girls. Example, skinny bitch might be wearing size 0 jeans but I’m wearing Manolo Blahniks so I don’t feel fashion disabled. In the Sex & The City movie I could never imagine wearing any of the clothes, but the shoes. O yeah baby I could totally rock the shoes! Until now.
Now I’m unable to cram my swollen trotters into a pair of stilettos and wobble precariously around. I’ve tried every pair of looks good and good for you shoes there are to no avail. This is it girls if I do not lose weight I am doomed to ugly shoes and support hose. Everytime I want a cheeseburger I will think of my beautiful leopard print Steve Madden stilettos gathering dust in my closet.
I’m back editing this blog cause I had a brilliant idea. I just took my favorite pair of high heels and put them on top of my refrigerator. Then I hung my jeans from my skinny days (which was about a month in 1999) on the front with magnets. I won’t rumage for snacks in there if I have to look at what I can’t wear anymore. Do you think my local McDonalds will let me hang my old bikini on their front door?
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You are tooo funny! I can just see your bikini hanging from the golden arches. lol Now every time I pass McDonalds (small town, we only have one) I will think of you.
You have a great sense of humor!! But honey, you need to be NICE to yourself! Think of your mind as the boss, and your body an employee. Would you really want to perform to your utmost for a boss that verbally abused you? You just seem like way too great of a person to be talking about yourself that way! Focus on what you DO have - A great soul, beauty and talent! My gosh, what a triple threat!! I’ll bet there are many a gal out there, thin as a pin, that would give anything for an ounce of what you fail to appreciate about yourself… I like the shoes on top of the fridge, but if those jeans on the front start hurting your feelings, you’d better take them down or so help me!!!… Big hug, you gorgeous woman!!
I want beauty advice from a woman that FEELS beautiful, no matter what she looks like! That is what will convince me that I can be beautiful, too! That, and only that! Because if real beauty is about a clothing size, the name on a label, or the fit of a shoe…then I don’t stand a chance!
May I offer up a little perspective? I have battled low self esteem all my life, and am the queen of self-depracating humor. It took me a long time to realize that my coping strategy was just perpetuating things, it was a way of beating myself up before anyone else could.
Think of your mind as the boss, and your body an employee. If you were an employee, would you really want to do your very, very best for a verbally abusive boss?
Would you want a friend that told you you inspired horror?? With friends like that, honey…
I commend you for your pursuit of good health and the dream body we all want. But please don’t forget to stop and appreciate the things about yourself that you wouldn’t change. I mean, come on - great soul, beauty, talent - You’re a triple threat!!!
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I know what you mean about that bastion of fashion left to us big girls. I have fat wide feet and can’t wear designer shoes, so I buy designer handbags…. for now. =+)
hahahaha, I can totally relate! I have the ankles of an overweight elderly fat woman wearing those burkenstocks. Noooooooo!!!! I don’t think I can even get into a pair of stillettos anymore. Sad.