Last night, I went to my husband’s company party at the Denver Art Museum. We were using it as an excuse to get out of the house, dress up nice and play in the museum for free! Since I had bought a super cute new cocktail dress, I figured I needed new shoes to go with it!
I have dropped a shoe size during my journey leaving me with not many shoe options. I hadn’t purchased any new heels and finally found an excuse to buy some. As a morbidly obese person, I owned heels but rarely wore them. If I did, it would have to be in nice weather to somewhere I knew I would be sitting. It seemed to defy the laws of physics that my nearly 300 pound body would even stay upright on heels.
Heels always caused all kinds of problems. They would always be severely uncomfortable and would often break before they had gotten all of their wear. I mean let’s be serious, is any 300 pound woman truly comfortable in heels? Most average weight women aren’t! So as a general rule in life, I tend to avoid heels. I can’t wear them to teach and we don’t go many places that would require them. I honestly didn’t even think about not having any heels until two days before the event.
Needless to say I went out and bought heels. ($19.99, thanks payless!) I wanted to look hot at this party. I wanted every man to be jealous of my man for having me on his arm. I wore the heels.
You would not believe how big of a difference losing 130 pounds makes when wearing heels. I feel like they fit and felt the way they were supposed to for the first time. Since it has been so long since I’ve wore any, I still sound like a Clydesdale in them, but I’m much much more comfortable. I wore them for the two block walk from the car, all through the museum and then back to the car with an extra block detour. Granted, they still hurt.
You look beautiful Kim! And yes, great heels! 🙂 Hurray for you woman. I am SO incredibly impressed. Your self-discipline is beyond imaginable. “Wow” isn’t sufficient!