A photo to remember me by...

Reasons for not doing this...

Well firstly there is the jumpsuit.  Silly, I know, but I have a horror of jumpsuits that started when they were fashionable in the 1980s.  Mad things.  I never wore them then, and I certainly don't pull off the supermodel look now...

Made even the most svelte of figures look frumpy, like a reject from a bond-movie-villain’s-hideout/factory/space-station/science-lab.  Or a Hazmat worker, and those baddies in ET when they wrap the house in plastic and experiment on the unsuspecting alien…

Thanks to Pat Patrick for the photo of Bosworth 2285 - the Zombie Nerf Wars

I don't think that I will have to wear a dayglo yellow one.  Which is good.  It's not that I don't like dayglo yellow (in it's own environment), but I suspect I would look like a giant lemon, thrown out of a plane for not being suitable for the first class cabin's G&T.   No, a subtle blue or grey seems the norm from the photos I've seen. 

I did pull it off a few years back in khaki, when paintballing.  That one was fine, so I guess that they will have all sizes.  I just have a slight worry that I'll be the one who is in danger of splittage... not a nice thought.  Oh well, I better wear something decent underneath just in case.  That's the specially bought lacies out of the question then...

I'm the one in the camo.... take your pick...  the subtle pattern does hide lumps and bumps a bit - but we're not style icons now are we.  We're about to be shot with bullets of paint.  Painful bullets of paint, if I recall correctly.  My legs looked like a dalmation afterwards - although I have to say it was great fun - even if I was rubbbbbbbish at it.


In any case, I know that I’m not going to do much about the boiler suit in just a few weeks. The pound losing frenzy will help a little, but  I’d need to spend a lot longer than that to make much of a difference to the whole 'let's look good in the boiler suit' thing.  But it’s psychological.  If I’m smaller, I will look better.  There.  That’s honesty for you.  (or delusion, take your pick). 

I'll just have to be selective about which photos I post on Facebook.... Is that vanity or is it pride?  Both probably.  Or I could be doing a service to all those unsuspecting friends out there, who really don't need the sight of me in a one-piece.  There - my Pride is doing the world a service. Now on with the other 6 Deadly Sins....

Post Script:  Actually, having seen 6 rather brave ladies on a stage at the weekend, who I was informed by my son were bigger than me, flaunting rather a lot of flesh, I think I can do this, covered up, and with only an audience of some of my closest friends.  Bring on the Boiler Suit!

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