The size on the tag is all relative.

I walked into one of my favorite consignment stores for the millionth time. I’ve been shopping there since college. Fleetwood Mac was playing loudly, which immediately put me in a great mood. I was stunned when an associate welcomed me in and said “don’t bother with the sizes.” I’d never heard a sales person say that. You certainly do not hear that in the real world marketing campaigns for anything, except maybe a fast food chain pushing you to make it a combo.

I left the store with a medium that day. I usually wear xxs-small (don’t judge-this is a safe space). It literally never occurred to me that a specific style that “doesn’t look right” might fit me in a different size because of the way it was cut.

I speak to health coaching clients all day about every BODY being different. I don’t talk about the number on the scale with the clients unless they really really want to. Instead I like to ask how their current clothes are fitting compared to when we began working together. It’s nice a nice baseline or starting point. I suppose I now have to lean into the idea that its size doesn’t matter, because as I learned, the size on the tag is all relative.