Fat Day Rescue Outfit!

So you’re having a fat day? Don’t worry we all feel this way sometimes, increasingly during the times of our period. Well, we should all have some rules for dressing to help us look and feel thinner.

Wear darker colors such as black, gray and navy blue. This will create a longer silhouette and help from drawing attention to bulges and heavy areas.

Wear support hoses and body shapers. Wear these under your clothes to make you feel tucked in tight. It makes you feel slimmer and it really does help to control those areas that need taming.

Avoid bulky materials. This is not the time to wear a lot of bulk choose simple and light fabrics and concentrate on layering rather than wearing one enormous sweater.

Draw attention to your best feature. Do you have nice shapely long legs, then wear skinny jeans or a nice skirt. Have a nice chest wear a shirt that accentuates your bust.  You can choose to add color to help accentuate your feature.

Supersize your accessories. Wear big earrings, a scarf, and carry an oversized bag. Don’t forget your Nicole Richie sunglasses.

Make sure to spend extra time taking care of your hair and make-up to help you feel better. Take a look at the outfit we put together for our fat day!

BUT WHY ARE YOU HAVING A FAT DAY?

I have heard time and time again that when you are feeling fat (as in having a Fat Day - not as in the emotional sense because we all know fat is not a feeling), there is something else that is bothering you that is making you feel that way. And while this may be true part of the time even the majority of the time, I personally believe it is possible to have a Fat Day for no good reason. Here are some of my theories and beliefs as to why Fat Days happen:

1. Ok,let's start with the therapists' favorite reason. You are worried, upset, anxious, (add the emotion of your choice to the list) and because it is too difficult, painful, frustrating (you get the idea) to deal with the actual cause of your distress, you instead subconciously choose to focus all your negativity on your body. The theory here is that focusing on weight and your body gives you a tangible enemy for which the solution is simple - lose weight, feel better, problem solved. Who wants to look at and deal with problems that may be beyond our control? Why not "invent" a problem such as suddenly being fat to distract ourselves from the real issues at hand.

2. Perhaps this next scenario has happened to you. You get up, feeling fine, having a good day, get on the scale and boom .... Fat Day. The scale says you have gained weight.Now it could be only a fraction of a pound that you gained, but you suddenly feel you have tripled in size.Had you not stepped on the scale,you would have been none the wiser but by knowing that there was some fluctuation in your weight, you are doomed to have a Fat Day.Now knowing that you've gained weight is all you can think about.It really is amazing how much power a number can have.

3.Maybe you woke up a little bloated this morning. I said a l i t t l e bloated. I'm not talking about 36 lbs. of water retention, but a little puffiness for whatever reason. We tend to be highly sensitive to changes in our bodies' size. Even a small bit of bloating can be enough to sound the alarms. Although it is not noticeable to anyone else, we can *see* our puffiness...in fact we see it magnified by a hundred times at least(!!!).This distortion along with our hypersensitivity to any change in our size, shape, or the way our clothes fit has Fat Day written all over it.

Don't worry too much about it, just look your best that day and try to do something fun!