Planning a last minute business trip to Orlando has me scrambling for summer clothes that fit.  Instead of spending Friday traveling, I'm going to spend it at the pool and travel on Saturday.  The only problem is that I don't fit into last summer's cute crop pants, shorts or tops. 

I thought about using the Kohl's gift certificate I received for Christmas to buy a new pair of shorts, but I'd really like to save that for a reward when I reach my goal weight.

So, I dug through all of my summer clothes and found one pair of shorts that still fit.  Funny, I almost gave them to Goodwill when I cleaned out my closet, because they were way too big, but I hung onto them for some reason.

But, the tight clothes panic gave me a renewed enthusiasm for getting back on the treadmill and sticking to my diet!

Okay, size 10 isn't really thin in "Hollywood" terms.  But, for me it's the smallest size I've gotten down to in many years.

I'm not a size 10 now, but hopefully, by summertime, I will be again.  Right now I'm a size 14 (OMG... I went from a 10 to a 14 in six months).  Buying clothes right now isn't fun.  My clothes-buying goal seems to be finding pants that don't make by hind end look huge and finding tops that hang low enough to hide my bulging belly. 

The best clothes I've found for my super curves are:

• Lee Plain Front Slacks from Kohl's or JCPenney.  Not sure what's so special about their cut, but they fit great and are a bit roomier than other slacks of the same size
• Just about anything from Christopher and Banks.  If you're a size 14 anywhere else, at C&B you're a 12.  That's fun!

This past spring and even through July, I was wearing size 10 and sometimes 12, depending on the brand.  I could go into any store and pick up anything from any rack and try it on and it would fit.  So, instead of buying things because they'd hide my lumps, I'd buy things that actually looked good.

No more panic shopping for special events... trying to find something in which I didn't look like a whale.  Instead, I could focus on finding something cute.

More than anything else, I miss shopping for cute clothes.  I'm sure that, by this summer, I'll be able to do it again!