Slimming Pants
Six months after giving birth to The Kid I accepted that I'd lost all the baby weight possible simply by having the child. It was time to think of diet and exercise... OR slimming pants!
This seemed like a much better option for a wedding that I was due to attend. I put them on ready for the big day, and skipped to the mirror expecting to see a svelte, shapely girl like the one pictured on the box. What I actually saw was a fat person squeezed into an oversized, beige, opaque sock. Not a pleasant sight.
I wore the 'fat sock' anyway hoping it might improve my fully clothed silhouette. It didn't. To add to my woes the fat sock began to roll down as the day wore on. By dinner time I had a large sausage shaped elastic band cutting off the circulation to anything below my rib cage.
Concerned that the top half of my body might snap off and topple onto the floor I went to the loo to jettison the fat sock.
After much banging around in the cubicle I emerged brandishing the offending pants; I was met by sympathetic comments from women who'd suffered similar problems - the general consensus was that said pants do very little: They never stay where they're put; roll up, roll down. Bits bulge out. Basically they don't work.
Not comfortable, not pretty and not a good idea. Gym it is then. Or maybe I'll try the expensive ones next time...
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Emma Deadman - is a first-time mum-to-be. She gives her take on life... from bump to beyond.
Losing weight, slimming, and keeping those unwanted pounds off are one of the hardest things that people have to deal with. But yours is not a bad idea to look slim. Good trick.