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My pants are shrinking!!!!

sdwill
sdwill
Every day when I get up to get ready for work, my pants feel tighter. I don't dare get on the scales. I feel like a flubbery whale. I have spider veins so bad. Does anyone know anything I can do for these ugly things? I'm not that big 5'4 and 138 lbs., but I am so out of shape. I make myself sick when I look into the mirror naked.yuckyuckyuck.

HELP!!!!
Sandi
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deleted_user
Oh my God, what a coincidence! My pants are shrinking too! Must be a conspiracy or something, for sure! Maybe the government's putting "something" in our water, so that our clothes shrink, there we have to buy clothes requiring more material...and someone's making a profit. P.S.: Just a hunch, but I think there messing with our scales too!
sdwill
sdwill
Don't know, I'm too scared to look on the scales. Everyone at work says "oh, you're thin and could stand to put on a few pounds" yeah, right, they should see me naked. Major dunlap disease here. I HAVE GOT TO GET CONTROL!!!!
deleted_user
deleted_user
I know exactly what you mean. Its all around the waist. If I can get my pants shut they look awful, like the buttons and seams will fly apart at any time. Thank goodness they make stretch jeans. Haha and elastic waist bands. When I was younger I thought I would never wear those. I wear scrubs most of the time, but my strings are getting shorter lol.
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And the other day, I wore some knee high hose with my boots.That evening, I took the boots off, took the knee highs off, and there were indention marks...deep ones on my ankles from the tops of the hosiery. When the hell did I get KANKLES???????????
deleted_user
deleted_user
I am with you on the shrinking pants. Two years ago, I was a size 8 or 10. Now the 12's are too tight. I see pictures of myself and I cringe. It feels like the more I don't eat, the more I gain. Go figure...
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the only thing to do for the spider veins is go to the dermatologist and get them zapped.

I know what you mean about those darned shrinking pants lol. Mine have started too. I have started walking for 45 minutes a day in hopes it will keep my pants from getting any smaller.