Lessons from Lisa: Don’t Take Your Shirt Off in the Middle of the Street
If you’ve been following along on my quest to get healthy (and hopefully doing your own plan!) then you know I am walking/exercising down my road every morning.
For some reason that I can’t identify I have not lost any weight for the past few weeks. I am stuck in a rut. It’s hard to be doing everything right and not lose weight. If I were on “The Biggest Loser” I would be voted OUT.
The good news is that I have lost 43# so far. Not too shabby I know. But with 50 more to go I am not ready to call it quits. There is still a lot of work left to do.
Since the weather has cooled down and it’s dark when I leave, I got myself a brightly colored Long Sleeve T-Shirt
This morning I put it on and then added a lightweight, short sleeved t-shirt over it so I wouldn’t get cold. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but about half a mile down the road I started to sweat. It wasn’t as cold as I thought. I don’t like to sweat and knew I would be miserable if I had to wear these 2 shirts, so I decided to take off the short sleeved outer layer. That should cool me off, right? No. I was still hot and realized I needed the long sleeves OFF as soon as possible.
But how could I do that? I couldn’t just take my shirt off in the middle of the road. Or could I? As I rounded a bend where I never, ever see a car, I decided there would be no harm in slipping it off quickly and putting the short sleeved shirt back on. I leaned against a thick tree, popped out my earbuds, tucked my ipod between my knees, readied my short sleeved shirt to put back on quickly. Then I went for it. I started taking off the long sleeved, glow-in-the-dark shirt. Right there by the road where, I thought, no one would ever see.
But…..
Here’s where it all went very wrong.
I forgot that I was wearing my new, light up, armband and the long sleeve got stuck halfway to my elbow. I wriggled and pulled and reached under the sleeve to slip off the light (which was shining like a glow stick through my sleeve) when what do you think happened? Yep. I saw the headlights of a car coming around the curve.
ACK!
I started trying to rip off my shirt the rest of the way because it was too tangled to put back over my head. But it was all twisted and the short sleeved t-shirt had gotten all wadded up and I went into full panic mode. The car was coming too fast for me to be able to get either shirt back on in time.
So I ducked behind the tree as much as I could (which wasn’t much because it is against a fence). I could either concentrate my efforts on holding the t-shirt in front of my mostly naked torso or use the t-shirt to cover up the bright light that was coming from my tangled sleeve calling out, “Look over here!”. I went with the torso coverage and hoped for the best.
The car sped past and if they saw me I couldn’t tell. Then, as has never once happened in the entire three months I have been walking down that road, another car was coming right behind.
More panic. I crouched this time, willing myself to sink into a non existent hole in the ground.
After the second car passed I managed to pull myself together and get the bright shirt off and slip back into the short sleeved t-shirt. I thought about calling it quits and going home with with my tail between my legs. But then I remembered that I am on a weight loss plateau and have to keep forging ahead. No quitting for me no matter what kind of humiliation I have to face.
So I walked on thinking about how I won’t be able to share about modesty with my neighbors anymore. Or anything for that matter because I plan to go into hiding.
Nah. I will just keep on sharing. Who hasn’t been caught in a mess every once in a while. Or is it just me?
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This cracks me up. I can just see you ducking for cover.
Oh Lisa! Too funny! I had similar incident trying to put on pantyhose in the backseat of my car, in a parking lot.
Keep walking. Keep eating right. You get over the plateau! Great story.
On the bright side… you may have raised your heart rate enough to bust through that plateau. And yes… it’s just you (and of course, Lucy Ricardo).
Toooo hilarious! Why is that incidents like this always happen to those of us that are “always” extremely particular about modesty? LOL…
On a weight loss note, I was bemoaning to my mom yesterday that, while I’ve lost 39 pounds so far (thanks to the Trim Healthy Mama plan), I still have at least 41 pounds to go to reach even my initial goal. She didn’t seem to hear the last part though, because she was busy exclaiming, “39 pounds? That’s a whole small child! You’ve lost a small child!” Which made me laugh… till I realized that my (almost-too-heavy-to-pick-up) 6-year-old son weighs 40 pounds,which means I’ve managed to lose his entire weight! So as overwhelming as “50 more pounds to lose” seems, a 43-pound loss is a HUGE weight off your body! So you go, girl! 😉 And don’t give up! You may need to tweak a few things to find out what works for your body, but DON’T GIVE UP!!! 🙂
I am so happy for you! Keep up the good work.
Didn’t you once have your skirt fly up or fall down in the middle of the parking lot too? So much for modesty!! Ha, ha!
Yep! I’ve been there. I pulled off a sweater set, only I didn’t have the little shirt on underneath. There I was in my bra. I thought about acting like I was after bee, but just threw my sweater back on and didn’t look up. Yea. Kinda like when I’ve tripped and fallen and gotten right back up like no one noticed. *sigh*
This was HILARIOUS!!!! I was just trying to imagine your tucking yourself to hide. I would be so, so scared and humiliated, and embarrassed, and…and…well, you get my point.
Congrats on the huge weight loss! You are doing AMAZING!!!
43lbs is great! Don’t think how far you have to go, think how much you have achieved already!! Loved your story. I walk everyday outside as well, never had that to happen. Good thing, because there’s no trees to hide behind either. LOL…just give you’re neighbors something to talk about!
Oh my goodness, that is so funny! Trials and tribulations along the way but they are all worth it girly. Great job on your weight loss.
Now I’ll tell you (because my husband will never know) once he went for his morning run. When he came home there was no sleeve on his shirt. Guess why? Uh huh.
Ha ha!
Great job losing the weight so far!
Brilliant, made me smile! We are heading into spring here, so the opposite! However I am peeling my clothes off too, Pilates class is my new beginning at the moment…..my pelvic floor is in pain!!! Never mind all things work together for good, even pain and humiliation!!
Lisa you always make me smile–I love you and miss you lady!
I just love your crazy predicaments! What a hoot! Obviously, you were never a ballerina or swimmer who was too shy to change in front of the other girls. My darling has learned to put on and take off her clothes without any skin exposure – of course, she’s a bit of a contortionist to be able to do it!
Hilarious! I can only say, “I’m glad it was you and not me!”
Haha! We’ve all been in messes. But you seem to have a knack for finding them! Thanks for another good laugh! I always figure the messes are okay if I’ve learned something from my mess. You WILL be layering the other way around from now on, I assume? 😉
oh my goodness – isn’t that how it ALWAYS goes!?!? for me at least yes – lol! hopefully since there is never a car on that road they didn’t pay attention either not expecting to see a person at that time. if they did act as tho you have NO idea what they are talking about! but I totally understand that immediate need for extraction out of clothes, I would have done EXACTLY the same thing girl!
Dear Erma,
You’re at it again. Snowing down south to … um… topless? You never fail to cause uncontrollable laughter.
Thanks for “lesson!”
Kelley~
Lisa, I just love you!! Thank you for being willing to do crazy things and then share them with us when the crazy gets crazier. I miss you and cannot wait to see you next week!
Had something similar but more public – was at my christen meeting and had a (silkier) tank top under a lower cut sweater, completely unaware to me the tank top road up showing my bra , I walked up to talk to one of my spiritual sisters who was in another room – who then told me my bra was showing – Ahhhhh I was so humiliated and wanted to crawl under a rock. All I could do is say I’m sorry to my friend and to God, and now make sure that everything is in place before I get up form my seat.
Funny!!! this is TOTALLY something that would happen to ME! I so relate to you it’s almost scary. No offense intended. It’s been fun to search your blog. I have seven children and was actually in search of an orginizational fix when I found you through pinterest search on someone else’s blog. Can’t wait to show on my blog what I came up with through the inspiration. Thanks for sharing all your personal trial, errors, fun and successes!
*hugs*
I clicked over here from your “Best Of” post. This story is hilarious! I’m so glad it wasn’t me! But it could have been me . . . so I shouldn’t gloat. 🙂 And though I don’t comment often, I do read an enjoy your modesty posts. I think they are important and inspiring.