Favorite Secret Pleasure of being Slim

 like so many, it's the clothes. knowing there are an endless amount of clothes that will both FIT and look good.

no need to settle!!!

Here is a really mean one... Asking my older sister if she wants my clothes that don't fit me anymore (because they're too big). 

Disclaimer: She was always super thin and always ate total crap/ never exercised a minute in her life.  It never mattered... until recently.  Being over 30 and the stress of a divorce is starting to catch up with her right about the same time I'm looking better than I ever have.  I always felt like I "drew the short straw" in our gene pool since I was always the kid who loved fruits and veggies, playes sports, and loved to be active, yet I was the fat one.  

So, the mean girl in me takes secret pleasure in being smaller than her for the first time since we were toddlers! 

tee hee, love this response..   I take some secret glee in being around my friends from a zillion years ago who were always skinny and now are a little heavy. I dont say a word. But I feel it. They probably look at me and wonder how I got so wrinkled.  who cares. diane

This might sound like a stupid secret pleasure but....

Crossing my legs at the knee instead of the ankle.

Come on. You women know what I mean!

Slipping into a dress and heels and having it hang just right.. looking tall and lean. Any excuse to put on a nice dress, I'm there. I was so not a dress person before.

Having fun in the bedroom with my skinny husband.. I'm bendy again! 

Being one of the leanest in my group of friends, bad I know.. but after years of being the biggest, damn it, it's nice to have the roles reversed.. On top of that, I no longer just want to sit in the lawn chairs and drink & eat, so I'm up running around, playing with the kids, helping out with the supplies.. just generally acting and feeling vital, energetic, and happy- that's the biggie!

Sitting on the ground and comfortably hugging my knees to my chest, I could never do that before..

Mirrors. I can't pass one without looking.

Have to agree with the "catch a glimpse" thing.  I, too, look tall and slim, it's so much fun!  The next-best thing is being thought of as "normal" I guess - not sticking out in a crowd by being the fattest one.  I love that!

ok here's another one. today I was walking the dog with the sun at my back. to my shadow was cast in front of me. so i see this sillouette of a perfectly normal female shape with slim hips, no saddle bags, and a shape that gives no indication of age other than being a normal adult woman. I had been so used to seeing big fat shadows of myself that i ceased to notice them. I think this is the first time i really noticed my shadow and that it had a nice shape. whoo hoo!  diane