In days of chaos, it's nice to rely on a lunch you know you like and isn't going to surprise you.

I tend to eat the same meal all the time until I get sick of it, and then I never eat it again. Since cutting carbs, I don't really have a fall back meal (pasta with butter or pasta with eggs). Right now I am really into low carb Kung pao chicken and beef. I might try pork and shrimp. For awhile it was cream cheese and sausage stuffed hot peppers. Before that steak salad. I was like this even before low carb with fancier meals, but I had go too easy things.

Also, where do you buy your underpants? I lost weight, but have been buying Lane Bryant for years. I like a high waisted brief that is tight and cotton, and I am now to small for LB. Hanes is not doing it for me- they bag weirdly, but if I get them smaller the leg holes are uncomfortable. Do I try me undies? Jockey?

I am also looking for a unicorn, which is a skirt suit where my waist/hips are in a 12 petite, my bust more a 16 , and my shoulders more a ten. I think I might just need to suck it up and either never wear a real suit, get a minimized bra, or make my own, because the idea of doing a shoulder alteration to accommodate my bust seems not like a thing I want to do.

I think my most comfortable cotton underwear is Joe Boxer brand. Trying on clothes that don't fit right is super annoying. I know my SIL is often wearing tops where the shoulders are too big to accommodate her bust. I should ask her if she has found any brand that works better.

I should send you my menu calendar, Sophia! I have recipes for everything listed too. Although I know lots of people that eat the same things repeatedly that way. I just enjoy trying new things and cooking.

Sophia, my favorite cotton underwear are Bali - not sure they still make what I have, but here is a page of options (not all are cotton) [link]

I would love your menu calendar! I like trying new things too, but somehow I try them, fall in love, and then eat them until I am sick of them!

I will check out Joe Boxer. I am sick of a saggy bottom.

I feel bad complaining about how clothes fit me when I have lost weight, but when I was heavier, my bust was more proportional, so easier to actually fit. I was a perfect 18 petite in Talbots and I was happy. I did not want to lose weight, but getting my blood sugar under control means it is a side effect and since I am a costume person, I feel like I need to be well-dressed. Now it is like my bust is the same size but the rest of me isn't and nothing is right except t-shirts/ turtlenecks and skirts

Also, thanks me belle- these seem great! I want to be all tucked in, and also have some breathing ability!

My most recent underwear purchased, Fit for Me from Fruit of the Loom.

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This version has a big enough leg hole. The Fit for Mes with the striped waistband cut into my inner thigh.

I wish I could eat the same thing for lunch every day. I hear about people who do that and it just sounds so, idk, restful. I'm pretty into variety, though.

I have had surprisingly good luck with suits from consignment shops that a previous owner had altered to fit something like my body. A total crapshoot, but I've gotten a couple that way that I was happy with.

Crazy thing- my tailor shop which had one of the last elderly Italian tailors in town (which is right across the street from me and has the same landlord) had a horrible fire last night! I don't even know anyone I trust with alterations anymore!

I'm very glad I'm in tech, where so long as you're clean, covered, and not wearing an obscene/provocative t-shirt, you're pretty much good to go.