Thighs In Love

Let me start by saying that this is not your average post. This is nothing like my other blog posts, but I promise you the message is REAL! I apologize in advance if this makes anyone feel some type of way because that is not the purpose of this post at all! This absolutely just my way of dealing with my own personal obstacles. Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying and you have to make moves to ensure that you don’t stay in a place that you don’t want to be in.

My thighs are in love with each other! Yup, you read that right! My thighs are madly in love! They fight my jeans daily just to get to each other again. Lately, my jeans have been losing the battle against the lovebirds. I’ve always been used to maybe one or two pairs of jeans with wear and tear or holes in the inner thighs, but these days I’ve been doing the “Can you see the holes if I stand like this or bend like this” test in front of the mirror a little more than I would like! After a few wears and washes the holes seem to grow uncontrollably! I’m not talking about holes the size of quarters either! Some of my jeans have holes that I can literally fit my fist through! I was amazed! Like how the hell did that happen?!?!?! I was convinced that my favorite brand of jeans was obviously faulty, but that thought was shot down as soon as I noticed that it was three different brands of jeans that I was looking at! My thighs were the common denominator! Now if the holes were on the front of the jeans I would be set because that’s the style these days, but I don’t think it’s cute to have my inner thigh chub protruding out of my jeans. Even if that does become the latest trend at some point, I’ll pass.

Eventually, my jeans with holes pile exceeded my normal everyday jeans pile and that caught my attention! Not because I had obviously gained weight and my thighs were darn near causing a fire from rubbing together so much, but because I’m cheap and I was staring at all the money that I spent on jeans that I can no longer wear. (Don’t judge me!) I also started thinking about how much it was going to cost me to replace all of those jeans. It was then that I started thinking about what caused this to begin with because I didn’t want to waste any more money! Like I said, I’m cheap! I didn’t even have to think about it because it was very obvious that my issue was my weight. I stopped eating right, I stopped working out and I picked up all of the weight that I had lost plus a few extra pounds. Wasting my money was my own fault!

This didn’t happen overnight though and if I’m honest with myself I can say that I noticed the signs, but chose to ignore them. I blamed the type of denim I was wearing anytime I could hear the annoying sound as my thighs rubbed together when I walked down a quiet hall at work. I wasn’t wearing the infamous corduroys that are known for making that noise, but yet there it was LOUD and clear. I would always end up walking funny as I failed at my attempt to avoid the sound that’s ridiculously annoying like squeaky sneakers on a bathroom floor.

Let’s be clear, I don’t expect to ever have a thigh gap. In fact, I don’t remember ever having one.  However, I can definitely stand to lose some of the thickness in my thighs. Right now, it’s my jeans but by summer I’ll be in physical pain from even more chaffing than I’m used to or I’ll be investing in a lot of body glide! When ya’ll see me on the beach this summer with my cut-up denim shorts on with my bathing suit just know that it’s one of the many pairs of jeans that I had to cut because my thighs loved each other so much and I refused to throw them away!

I didn’t write this to body shame anyone or even myself for that matter. It’s simply my way of shining light on something that isn’t always talked about, but is very real! The thick thighs struggle is REAL!!!! I’m sure someone can relate to this in some way! Either you’ve been there, you are there or you know someone that has been there. It’s a part of life for a lot of us. Don’t be ashamed of who you are or how you look. You should always love yourself first and be happy in your own skin! However, if you see room for improvement do what you have to do for YOU! That’s what I plan to do!