So, let's talk about our fat mirror. I wish I had taken a picture of it (but not of me in the mirror because let me tell you, 'twas a scary sight). The only picture I could find of it is one of the many pictures I took of our apartment when we first moved in.
Mark and I found this long mirror in our old apartment and hung it in the back of our bathroom door at our old place so you could see the back of your hair in the bathroom mirror (and your entire outfit). Anyway, we brought it to our new place and have had it hanging behind our closet door. It's been very convenient, as it's the only long mirror in the house where you can see your whole body. But what's not so convenient is that this mirror makes you look fat!!!
Mark and I found this long mirror in our old apartment and hung it in the back of our bathroom door at our old place so you could see the back of your hair in the bathroom mirror (and your entire outfit). Anyway, we brought it to our new place and have had it hanging behind our closet door. It's been very convenient, as it's the only long mirror in the house where you can see your whole body. But what's not so convenient is that this mirror makes you look fat!!!
We had no idea until a few weeks ago. Or it actually didn't even do this until a few weeks ago! I told Mark that I needed to lose some weight. My metabolism must be catching up to me, I said, because my hips had gotten huge! And my thighs! Mark, of course, denied this. Told me I look beautiful always and am so not fat. He tells me I have the perfect body almost every day :)
Well, I tried to believe him but every morning picking out an outfit and trying on skinny jeans in front of that mirror, I could just not believe he hadn't noticed I must have gained like 20 pounds!!! I didn't actually know if I'd gained any weight because we don't own a scale. But the mirror said it all.
So, one day after trying on 3 different pairs of skinny jeans and throwing each of them off I decided I had to go on a serious diet. Hence, the 10 Day Detox diet (for pre-diabetics lol!) After a few days on that diet, I nearly fainted from low blood sugar so I gave up and have been trying to eat super healthy and exercising but I still looked ridiculously fat!
Finally, last Friday night Mark and I were getting ready to go to the temple and I put on my dress. It's a really baggy dress that needs a belt to cinch it in but after I put my belt on, I just stared at myself in the mirror, feeling like the blueberry girl from Willy Wonka. I told Mark, "I look so fat! How can you tell me I don't look fat?!" He looked at me and said I was crazy. I looked in the mirror and wondered if that saying about anorexic girls looking in the mirror and literally seeing themselves completely different than they actually looked might apply to me. Or maybe my husband was so in love with me, he literally couldn't see I had gained weight! Well, Mark came up behind me and looked in the mirror. He then stood back and looked at me without the mirror and did a double take. He stood in front of me and looked at himself in the mirror. That's when we both saw skinny Mark with love handles and short stubby legs, hahaha. "This mirror is messed up!" Mark said and he took it off the hook. Sure enough, the mirror was bent at the bottom and tweaking the image like a fun house mirror making the bottom half of your body look fatter and shorter!! Hahaha, not to the extent of a fun house mirror but pretty noticeable! I was so relieved!!!! Mark bent the mirror the other way to make me look tall and skinny. I told him we should leave it like that. Hahah. But we just threw it. Oh shoot, hopefully it didn't break!! Well, it's St. Patrick's Day so the luck of the Irish would probably save us ;)
So we now no longer have a long mirror to see our entire body before we leave the house. And let me tell you, that is just fine with me... :)
