Waist encirclers

Talking to my friend Steffi this morning got me in the mood for shopping (it's not hard these days, since I don't have any money to go shopping with).

She wants to get a belt.

When I got home, I noticed a hoard of belts hanging from hooks in the back of my closet. I don't wear any of them. Ever.

I used to wear belts frequently--back in my senior year of high school (when everyone was wearing belts, really--even some with ginormous buckles since Willcox is a country town), and a lot during my freshman year of undergrad.

That was when I was pretty thin. I lost 20 pounds my senior year of high school and 15 pounds my freshman year of college.

Now I've gained part of that weight back and I don't wear belts anymore. I sense a correlation.

I think I wore belts when I was thinner mostly to keep my pants up. As an added bonus, some of those belts were fashionable.

Now I have a ton of gorgeous belts and I don't wear them. I buy them usually when I'm with my mom because she tells me they'll be slenderizing. And then I get home and try pairing them with things, decide they all make me look thicker in the middle, and hang them up to become breeding grounds for dust.

This is probably a mindset I should change. And if you have similar neuroses, you should think about changing them, too.

I don't think I'm going to buy a belt next time I go shopping, but I should probably think about buying things I can wear with the belts I have. I guess that would be the smart thing to do.