WTF Was Wrong With Those Adults?

In her late elementary and early middle school years, there was nothing like her hearing it's time for "back-to-school clothes shopping."

After dragging out in the August heat, her thighs rubbing against the in-seams of her polyester shorts, Lil' Hilde entered THE PRETTY PLUS SECTION in Sears, located by the Mall exit and right across from the THE HUSKY SECTION for boys.

It was a tiny section; four or five carousels with a range of drab-colored blue or black polyester pants, polyester striped shirts, and a few polyester dresses. Lil' Hilde and her mother would circle the carousels like they were wandering the desert, dying and looking for water. Will we find any?

Sometimes, Lil' Hilde would find a shirt she kinda sorta liked, hold it up and her mother would immediately check the size, shake her head, and continue to swish swish swish at the clothes on the carousel. Her mother might find something (aka: anything) that would fit and relegated Lil' Hilde to the dressing room. With sweat pouring off her, she'd twist, push and pull in an attempt to slide an inevitably too-small scratchy wool sweater over her flubs. So much for the signs that said, "PERFECT FOR YOUR CHUBETTE."

To Hilde, it was apparent that nothing in THE PRETTY PLUS SECTION felt pretty, OR comfortable OR felt plus-sized. It's probably why she lives for cotton everything and freaks out at the slightest pinch of too-tight clothing.

Plus, she's been wondering since starting the GLP-1 and journaling. Why TF did Sears and other stores even have the "YOUR KID IS FATTER THAN AVERAGE SO SEND THEM INTO THIS CORNER OF THE STORE" department instead of just incorporating all the kids clothes into one department?

The 70s and 80s Diet Culture Slogans

Diet culture was pretty intense back in the 70s and 80s and you learned the sh*tty diet phrases young.

By 12 years old, Lil' Hilde had memorized her mother's two diet magnets that adorned the refrigerator. The fat smiling pig told Lil' Hilde to "Don't be a Pig." The other slogan warned her that if she let anything fattening touch her mouth...she was doomed to keep it on her hip area foreeeeevvvver.

By the time she turned 13, Lil' Hilde was a member of a weight loss program (now out of business), eating their restrictive 1200 calorie teen diet and lost 50lbs in 6 months.

The day she hit goal weight she promptly went home and ate two packaged brownies from her father's "secret" sweet stash as a reward for reaching her goal.

Hilde Has a Before Brain and an After Brain.

Hilde is convinced that unless someone has been plagued by food noise, they have no idea what it feels like to have relief from it. An entire afternoon went by before Hilde realized she hadn't thought about food at all. She actually got more WORK done.

With food noise, there's this torturous process where a food thought pops into the brain. BOING-it's there and it pokes, pokes, pokes. Hildes noise rarely went away unless she gave in to the food thought with eating something (anything, really).

On the GLP, she's noticed a huge difference. It's just not there right now. Will it last? Who knows. But even if it doesn't go away to this level today, it's a welcome relief!