Normally I HATE clothes shopping, overheated cubicles trying to squeeze into clothes and I avoid it whenever possible. Exactly a month ago my mum came to visit and dragged me around the shops, I spotted a pair of jeans that I fell in love with, tried them on in my usual size 20 and felt really awful when I had to really struggle to get them over my hips and they wouldn't anywhere near fasten I put them back and walked out.

Went shopping with mum again today and she dragged me into the same shop - there they were my heavenly jeans - and in the sale half-price, she bundled me into the changing room and with great trepidation I pulled my stomach in, stepping into them pulled them up ....... and fastened them, then even better I realised they felt ...... too loose, I ended up buying them in an 18 which were a really comfortable fit, the last time I was in a size 18 was 8 years ago and I'd got used to the feeling that I'd never get back there again.

YIPPPEEEEEE