Omega's journey

My question may sounds dumb but is there a real problem with chocolate in general? I thought with little quantity it was rather healthy just like red wine.

Myself I never eat any chocolate except at some occasion, but I still like it from time to time.
 
I havent been making too many postings anywhere recently though...
The dull things in life have been quite busy - and then I have been spending a heck of a lot of time doing my zumba and salsa...

On top of my daily walking - my exercise program has been as follows:
Monday - 1 hr aerobics, 1 hr zumba
Tuesday - 3 salsa classes plus social salsa dancing
Wednesday - 1 hr zumba
Thursday - 2 salsa classes
Friday - 1 hr zumba
Saturday - 1 hr salsa lesson, 1 hr zumba
Sunday - nothing extra - just the walking

Sometimes we do some extra salsa maybe on the Friday or Saturday if there is a salsa party anywhere... A lot of our friends are avid salsa / zumba dancers... There is a strong intersection of both communities and a lot of people do both... Dance is very much alive in our clubs and a lot of professional dancers and dance teachers (of different forms of dancing from ballet to freestyle) seem to come to the clubs to hang out...

I actually did a lot of dance exams in my childhood and got well on the way to qualifying as a dance teacher in my teenage years (in old time and latin american) so really felt at home in this community and it is a brilliant form of exercise... A lot of things jump back into my head from 40 years ago - and it seems that I havent forgotten nearly as much as I thought...

Anything that encourages me to do a lot of exercise has to be good.

Luckily - our teacher gets on well with Rod and has an excellent encouraging manner... He has really brought Rod's dancing on well which is wonderful because it means that Rod is enjoying dancing too.
 
Benny Bent said:
My question may sounds dumb but is there a real problem with chocolate in general? I thought with little quantity it was rather healthy just like red wine.

Myself I never eat any chocolate except at some occasion, but I still like it from time to time.
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A lot of people find chocolate to be quite addictive


I should actually eat in a pretty controlled manner and if I am trying to hit nutritional targets there isnt a lot of room for unnecessary stuff...
 
You look amazing :D

I think that you need to make allowances for your boobs when thinking about your goal weight, they probably weigh quite a bit :D ;)

I do agree with you that you look slimmer now than when you were 2.2 pounds heavier.

It is good to eat a lot of fruit, but if your eating, say 15 bananas a day, that's still 1500 calories.
 
Thanks for the compliment.

My boobs are enormous. I wear a size 32JJ bra. My boobs are basically the same size as when I took my weight right down to 9 stone - although I will admit that some people told me that I was too thin at that weight... I don't really have any photos of me less than about 10 stone... My bra is full of such a lot of loose skin - that can never be dieted away... When I was at goal weight - I got letters from breast consultants who said that I "clearly need" breast reduction surgery.

LOL I am actually 2.2 pounds heavier now than at the 147 picture - but it seems that I look thinner now... I must have been making muscle...

I am currently eating a lot of apricots... I get fashions where I want to eat a lot of a certain kind of fruit. Eating tinned fruit can actually help me keep a track of quantities and encourage me to not eat 15 tins of fruit!!!!!!!
 
Thanks for popping by Angel. :Angel_anim:

Its official - I am the luckiest lady alive because I have the sweetest husband - still after all these years.

Keep in mind in the following story that dance is very important to me... I was taught to dance by a national champion from a young age and got a number of dance qualifications - and in my teens came very close to qualifying as a dance teacher in more than one type dancing before I decided to focus on a more academic career...

I still loved to dance - but had to stop when my weight dramatically increased... When I was big I often itched to dance - but could only manage a few minutes and the pleasure was limited...

I started with aerobics - but now either do zumba or salsa (same teacher so a lot of people do both and it is a very friendly crowd) on six days out of seven... I go to lots of events where dance lives and in addition to people that dance as a hobby like myself - there are lots of professional dancers and dance teachers that are addicted to dancing - just socially dancing like crazy...

Friday was our 27th wedding anniversary...

Rod took Friday and Monday off work. As you will be aware - we are having beautiful weather at the minute... (I'm not implying that Rod controls the weather)... :)

Anyway - on Friday we went to Paxton House and did our walking in the grounds which were beautiful...


We managed to get back in time to see our friends and do an hour of zumba...

Saturday
We started with our normal 1 hour private salsa lesson followed by an hour and a half (specially long) zumba in our local church hall... This was very special to us because we got married at the church and had our wedding reception in the church hall...
When it came time to do the cool down - a romantic song from over 30 years ago that was special to us when we were young started playing...
Rod had been in touch with Chris and Chris had done some special romantic choreography to it... It was wonderful and included tons of dance symbolism (arm caresses, beating hearts, crossed hearts and LOL some occasional sneaky little pelvic thrusts to hint at that side too)...
It was so nice...
Lovely of Rod to think of the idea.
Lovely of Chris to make such lovely choreography just for me...

At the end he announced about it being special for us and why...

We had a rest for a few hours in the afternoon and went to SalSabado at night - which is a regular monthly salsa party that we go to...


It was tons of fun with a cha cha class and tons of social dancing...

Sunday
We went to Floors Castle and walked in the grounds...


Monday
We went to Raby Castle and walked in the grounds...


We got back in time to do two hours of zumba - and Chris did the lovely special cool down at the end of the second class...

I was really pleased with the anniversary weekend.
I had no naughty food (apart from sugar free sweets that I am not counting as naughty) - and in fact had undressed salad with lean protein on my main meals and fruit with yoghurt on my other meals...
I did tons of exercise - with a heap of walking, zumba and salsa...

I stayed on track and had a wonderful special time...
 
Hi,

There are so many pages in this thread so I'm not completely up to date with your progress but from your signature I can see you're almost half way.
Not sure if this is the 13 months you referred to about getting half way or if that was from your 2007 project.

Anyway from what I've seen you seem focused and doing well :)
 
Aww that is so sweet of Rod. Made me smile. I love the walks especially floors castle. I'm a fan of period dramas and it it reminds me of something from one of them. I cant believe you've been married 27years. Can only imagine that number. I'm coming to 4yrs in august. And you did really well with exercise and eating even on a celebration weekend. :hurray:.
 
Thanks for visiting Nostalgic...

My weight story is one of the longest and most complicated ones on the forum - and this diary gets abandoned all the time...

A quick catch up follows:

I had a dramatic weight gain in my 20s and spent the next 20 years as a very big person.

Joined the forum in 2007 and at age 47 managed to half my bodyweight in the next 13 months taking my weight down to 147.

I then spent the next 13 months taking my weight down to 126 pounds that I set as goal...

People told me at the time that I was losing too much weight - but I didnt really feel comfortable at any weight...

I picked 126 as a fairly arbitrary number (9 stone) and agreed to stop there...

I managed to maintain that well for the next couple of years.

I did however begin to understand that I might have dropped too much weight...
I am not built like a normal person of my height and weight because I carry a lot of loose skin.
I have had a lot of problems with feeling the cold and also the skin on my hands splitting along the fingerprint lines because my doctor thinks that I have dieted away some of the essential oils and fat layer that belongs in skin...

I was examined for the UK Biobank project (which is a UK initiative where a large number of people donate their ongoing medical records to scientific research - and are monitored for this research. The baseline stats are scanned into my album here...

Basically - at 132 pounds my body fat percent was properly calculated by researchers as being 21.7%.

I was told that this was particularly low for a woman of age 50.



2011 and 2012 were really horrible years (very stressful) and I gained a bit of weight...

I really do not know what weight is right for me... I know that I have been lower in the past and can be lower - but do not really know what is best...

I came back to the forum at the start of the year and set my ticker up with my same old goal weight of 126... It was easier than working out anything new at that stage...

I have taken off about half the weight that I had put on - but I am far from certain about how much more weight I should lose...

I am basically addressing things by keeping a high exercise level and eating healthily and seeing how I go... Silly things like which clothes that I like fit me may well be part of the decision process about when to stop. I have been building muscle so I look thinner now than I did at 147 pounds back in 2008...
 
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Wow, sounds like you have had some real struggles :hugs:
Thank you taking the time to recap it for me.
I think its great you lost the weight and are at it again, being overweight is not healthy but hope you are consulting a doctor and monitoring your body fat % regularly as that can get dangerous?
Are there things that can be done for the loose skin?
 
The loose skin will have to be surgery...

I have letters from two breast consultants who say that I "clearly need an envelope reduction and mastopexy" but that I need PCT approval to get it done on the NHS... They have told me that I have a very strong case...

Tummy tucks and similar surgery where not worth submitting to my old PCT as they would not approve any - but we have moved to a new area and I am hoping that things might get moving when we get a new GP...

We are still with the old GP because one of the major stresses was that Rod had five operations in 2011... We really do not want to risk Rod having to get a new kidney consultant until we really have to so we havent told the doctors that we have moved yet... We will do so soon... In the next month or two...

I know that I am ok yet at my current weight - but am getting a bit bony looking around my neck and shoulders - so am keeping an eye on things...
 
Yes, I saw that. Cup size jj, I really can't imagine. I'm a d/dd which fits me proportianally even at my slimest so they dont look overly large but pregancy has given me some f cups. It must cause stress on your back. I would opt for a reduction also.
I'm not a fan of cosmetic surgery like implants and nose jobs etc but I am all for surgery regarding medical concerns. Like reductions or an implant due to cancer, loose skin removal, reconstruction from accidents etc.

5 operations, I can understand staying with the same GP because he knows the history and details.

You're smart about it and are keeping an eye on things,
 
32JJ is one of the stupidest bra sizes known to man...

It is all the loose skin that I carry... It all has to be bundled up together in there... The specialist told me that I'll be flat chested - but I can live with that (so can my husband)... My boobs were so very big and when the fat inside disappeared the skin couldnt shrink nearly enough... apparently when they cut all the skin away - they would often want to put in an implant on someone that would become as flat as me - but that my skin is so thin with all the stretching that it would never manage to carry an implant...

I was at zumba tonight - wearing a very well fitting sports bra (only had the fitting checked yesterday when I bought a new bra) but the shoulder straps were digging in during some of the jumps... The back and shoulders are the main problem areas - all that I can do is make sure that I am wearing the best bra that I can and that it still fits...
 
It is a huge size,
Being flat chested will be better for you by the sounds of things.

As for sports bras. I find them hard to find in general. Even as a d cup its hard to find the perfect fit that is comfortable and supportive.
Most shops stop selling pretty supportive everyday bras and good sports bras at a c cup.
Don't get me started on finding maternity bras in an f cup grrr!

Online seems to be a good selection but I'm one who has to try these things on because it may sound fitting by measurements but not so good when on.
 
I gave up on a lot of shops because their ranges simply did not really go high enough...

Luckily there is a branch of Bravissimo in Newcastle and I go there... it is really good because their range does not stop at bras... for instance - I had to get my bathing costume from there because (with boobs like mine) you need one with a bra built in and obviously the bra has to be the right size... Sending off for bras never worked too well for me... It was a lady who worked in another shop (where I had a fitting) that had nothing to offer me that would fit who first told me about them - and I have shopped there ever since...
 
You're lucky to have found a great shop. I have issues with swimmers also.
If its not supportive then running around a beach or jumping in the waves is just not practical. Most I find, I think we're invented just for sunbathing purposes.
I tend to stock up on bras when I visit home. The shops in nz have limited d cups but they can be found. Here they are harder to find
 
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