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I try to be honest on here as I know most people probably think or feel the same as me but daren't say anything, whereas I'm the kind of person who speaks her mind, and generally gets into trouble because of it, but is saying what everyone else is thinking anyway. Oh well, everyone needs someone like me in their life I guess
So, today's journey. I've stuck to my squats, sit ups and press ups for a few days now. My stomach muscles are letting me know they aren't quite as enthusiastic about this as I am. I've found the easiest way for me to do sit ups it with my legs up in the air forming like a V shape then lower my legs halfway at he same time as my torso, as I can't do traditional sit-ups. I reckon those who can store their weight in their feet as mine will not stay on he floor and I end up flailing about like a dying bird. Being as I have to hold my iPad across my chest to record the sit-ups I find it's far easier, but I do have to sit on a rolled up towel as my ass hurts on the carpet and I also don't want carpet burn there to boot. I already feel hard done to enough as it is without a pain ON my ass as well. I think the pain bit must be a sign I'm loosing fat off there too as I noticed when I was in the bath earlier that it felt uncomfortable sitting in certain positions. I'm hoping to be able to firm my bum & legs up and maybe shave a few inches off my thighs so my jeans fit better. I'll explain more below.
The OH may or may not be pleased with his shakes this week. He told me he likes Strawberry the best out of the 3 flavours, which is just a s well as some dummy at the chemist ordered him vanilla and no chocolate, despite he fact he told them he hates vanilla. Now either he's upset one of them or they didn't listen. Being as they have no chocolate in stock I've bought back 14 strawberry. Well, he said he likes it. Now he's probably going to hate it within a week. Ah well, at least it gives him something else to whinge about. I reckon he's read somewhere that moaning burns calories. Along with this stupid person who claimed they were eating and losing weight and has given him silly ideas.
Speaking of burning calories, he's on about starting at the gym. Now I've heard this promise(/threat?) a few times and so far nothing has come to fruition, so I'm not holding my breath, but I see a few people on here have different opinions on here about exercising whilst on LT. Some say they go running or some other rather active pastime that makes me tired just thinking about it, and others say not to do anything as you can send your body into starvation mode by burning too many calories. Now, I'm not suggesting for one moment he's going to turn into some athlete over night, Infact far from it. I'll give it a month and 3 visits if he actually even joins up and even then I reckon he'll be mucking about with weights as he doesn't even run for the bus these days. I'd like to go back to the gym as I quite miss my time there and enjoyed Zumba and swimming, spinning and all the ore things I used to do to pass the time when I really couldn't find anything better to do with myself.
This weeks loss has come in at 3 lbs. not as good as I'd hoped being as I've been 100% again this week. But I am a day early and it's averaging about 1/2lb a day so I can't complain as long as it's still going down. I have the odd day where it goes up by 2 lbs or something daft but generally I loose it again over the day or even the next day. My ap that predicts the date I meet goal is slowly moving backwards. I've gained another 3 days on its first prediction, so unless I loose half a stone over night somewhere then I guess I'm going to have to accept that I might need an extra week of dieting. The chemist told me I've not got too much further to go and told me they have my goal down as 10.1 I've told her I've moved it and I intend to loose another half a stone off that figure, so by my estimates that's going to take me til the end of Nov, so about another 3 weeks. That's do able. I'm on leave from work next week, so that's 1 week down, then 2 weeks left, which I'm sure I can keep busy throughout and get through it. I plan to go on to S&S maybe end of next week and start on their 4 meal a day plan. By the time I've done that for 2 weeks I should be at target.
Tried some more of my "too tight but not parting with them" jeans on. They are now actually too big on the waist but still tight on the thighs. I didn't think I have huge legs, but this is making me wonder. Who exactly do they model clothes on these days?
I'm in 2 minds whether to have them taken in at the waist or wait til I'm down a bit more and see if my thighs thin up a bit first to get a proper idea where they sit on me and adjust accordingly. Still, I'm pleased to report no camel toe. That means even that bit is shrinking. I had no idea that you could actually put weight on there until I realised I had an inverted bit between the bottom of my stomach and the top of my bikini area. The 2 were totally separate lumps of fat. I'm hoping that soon they will merge into one flat bit and that dent will disappear as it's that awkward place where pants and trousers like to sit and it causes an overhang. Whilst I'm in the subject of bikini areas and such likes (this is your cue to stop reading btw if you have an issue with bodily functions), did anyone else notice that the bigger they got the more prone they became to getting pee on their legs when on the loo? I thought it was weird when it first started happening and eventually grew to accept I now had a bigger area to wipe, but now I'm loosing weight it's stopping again. It can't just be me that has experienced this and it would certainly explain how public toilet seats always seem to be covered in pee.
When I was at the hospital yesterday I became aware, as you do when people watching in a waiting room, of how many people are really over weight. The amount that were having trouble walking and breathing at the same time was quite worrying. A lot of my friends are very over weight (like over 40 stone) and all have health problems mostly relating to their knees and hips giving up. As we are getting older more and more of them seem to be having surgery to repair bits of them or becoming another one of those fat people in a mobility scooter. I look at them and think "if I carry on, that could be me in 10 years time". I wish that someone would do more for them such as getting to the bottom of why they are the size they are and helping them to solve that problem (if they want to ofc as one of my friends states although he can't run around with his son, go on any rides at a theme park, get on a plane or anything he is still happy being big and people should accept him for that) instead of just patching up bits that break. I'm sure one of my friends might have done far better if he had been given more support and maybe even sponsored for LT by his doctor. He was told he could have a gastric band if he lost X amount of weight and for a few weeks did quite well, but then he failed somewhere and went back up so they dropped him from the list. It's a shame as I don't want any more of my friends to die young because of their weight causing health problems. I've already lost one, and he was one of the lightest (but still over weight) of the group. I'm not sure if he would have the will power to drop to 2 shakes a day, or if he can even afford to go on LT without it being paid for by a doctor as he is unemployed (again, can't stand or walk far, always got knee problems so doesn't last long before he gets sacked or kinda forced out. He is a bit limited as to what jobs he can get as he isn't much of an office type person and tends to get warehouse work but again it always requires mobility). I'm hoping that he will follow my good example and try it and get down to his goal weight for his gastric band surgery and then maybe our other friends will join in.
Mind you, one always claims to be on a diet and intermittently posts on facebook "lost 5lbs this week" followed half an hour later by a check at the local all you can eat Chinese. She's the only person I know who goes to an all you can eat several times a week and thinks she's on a diet. And if she is still loosing weight eating Chinese all week, I'll find out what diet plan it is and post it on here for us all to join.
