This is the time
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felici
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I don't think I'm much more into shopping than you are! And I don't want to spend the money. And the last time I bought trousers I bought cotton, for my skin, and then all the smooth waists instantly stretched, even before I lost weight! So I have been adjusting them all summer. And the lacky waist pants make baggy bottoms....
Aaagh. I can't buy clothes without thinking about how I look.... Is this part of the mental stress adjustment component of weight loss? Is it compulsory?
Aaagh. I can't buy clothes without thinking about how I look.... Is this part of the mental stress adjustment component of weight loss? Is it compulsory?
M2M
New member
Honey...if *I* have to go through it...*YOU* should have to go through it too 
Sorry about that, it's compulsory!
And I agree - I'm not a shopping fan, but I have to say, I do like clothes that fit now much better then baggy ones. At first I liked the bagginess...almost as if to say, "Yeah, I have lost some weight." Now, I like clothes to fit - and I've gotten a lot pickier about how well they fit too!
Sorry about that, it's compulsory!
And I agree - I'm not a shopping fan, but I have to say, I do like clothes that fit now much better then baggy ones. At first I liked the bagginess...almost as if to say, "Yeah, I have lost some weight." Now, I like clothes to fit - and I've gotten a lot pickier about how well they fit too!
felici
Well-known member
Yes it is and I have a hard time too.
I go on-line to Aussie forums and half my friends are 2-3 hours in front of me time wise, and I go on-line here and you guys are more than half a day behind, mostly a different day, and yet all different times to each other anyway.
I'm usually ok at any given moment, but if I try to remember when anything on-line happened that was "yesterday" or "the day before"... I'm totally lost!!
I go on-line to Aussie forums and half my friends are 2-3 hours in front of me time wise, and I go on-line here and you guys are more than half a day behind, mostly a different day, and yet all different times to each other anyway.
I'm usually ok at any given moment, but if I try to remember when anything on-line happened that was "yesterday" or "the day before"... I'm totally lost!!
wishes
Coffee Addict
I totally second that. At first it was cool to have baggy clothse - like a badge of honor that 'wow ive lost <this> much weight'Honey...if *I* have to go through it...*YOU* should have to go through it too
Sorry about that, it's compulsory!
And I agree - I'm not a shopping fan, but I have to say, I do like clothes that fit now much better then baggy ones. At first I liked the bagginess...almost as if to say, "Yeah, I have lost some weight." Now, I like clothes to fit - and I've gotten a lot pickier about how well they fit too!
Then when you admit defeat and buy new clothes its WAY cooler
felici
Well-known member
I tried a little shopping and I didn't buy anything. But you're both right!!
I tried on some trousers in a normal clothes shop. I didn’t buy any because I was overcome with a sudden fussiness a la M2M, but I am definitely a size 16. So now I can buy clothes anywhere again. That's quite a bonus re: choice and price! I don’t know how to compare sizes well. A size 16 here is not slim. When I was young I was a size 10 with a size 8 waist, and the clothes go up 12, 14, 16. We don’t have women’s clothing smaller than an 8. I don’t know what I got up to because I know that I often bought clothes that were too big. I still some have shorts/trousers that are 20s and 22s.
While I was out I weighed myself too - 81 kg 178.2 lb. My loss for the week 2.1 kg or 4.6 lb.
I came home and checked out the loss and went back to weigh myself again (not in case I had changed, just in case I had made a mistake). I did weigh late in the day instead of early so maybe this is a bit of an aberration, though I see most people think they weigh more later on.
I have been waiting to weigh 82 kg which is a weight I hovered at for a long time on the way up – but I have skipped it! … I hope! I might not weigh myself next week just in case. My husband says he thinks I looked especially slimmer this week. My neck looks a bit older again too, so maybe it’s a real loss.
I don’t normally lose this much, and I don’t know what is different about this week. I unintentionally skipped lunch one day and I was a little more careful about my exercise but not much. It seemed pretty much the same as usual to me.
I have lost enough now to start feeling like I am a person in a before and after picture. Not ready to post. Just feeling a little weird like I am someone else, because on one level I don't think I ever thought it would be me, but in a way now it already is.
I got passport photos. I think I look like myself again, though a bit older than last time I looked like myself. I do feel a little uncomfortable about the way my weight loss is affecting my skin. I hope it doesn’t keep changing at this rate, however if it does I guess that’s a small price to pay for being able to move properly again.
You know I can already feel myself starting to fuss about how the way I actually would normally look, is not ideal. I really need to get over that. Far out. I thought I was over it years and years ago.
Breakfast ~9:30 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and marmalade. 1 boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Snack 6:00 ½ Salada cracker.
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Dinner 7:00 Fish and prawns in a cream sauce with mangoes and mushrooms on rice. And a nice clean little salad of lettuce, cucumber, capsicum and sugar snap peas.
I could not finish the fish and now an hour has passed and I still feel weighed down. Oh well, it was supposed to be something special for Easter. I would prefer special things that feel good afterwards but the occasional off meal has to happen sometimes I guess.
Edit:
Exercise 9:10 pm 1 hour local walk. Like last night. I think I should start going earlier on the weekends. This time I startled a couple standing in the shadows at my local park, and caused a pair, who had been reclining between the goal posts at the oval, to sit up and talk about school!
I tried on some trousers in a normal clothes shop. I didn’t buy any because I was overcome with a sudden fussiness a la M2M, but I am definitely a size 16. So now I can buy clothes anywhere again. That's quite a bonus re: choice and price! I don’t know how to compare sizes well. A size 16 here is not slim. When I was young I was a size 10 with a size 8 waist, and the clothes go up 12, 14, 16. We don’t have women’s clothing smaller than an 8. I don’t know what I got up to because I know that I often bought clothes that were too big. I still some have shorts/trousers that are 20s and 22s.
While I was out I weighed myself too - 81 kg 178.2 lb. My loss for the week 2.1 kg or 4.6 lb.
I came home and checked out the loss and went back to weigh myself again (not in case I had changed, just in case I had made a mistake). I did weigh late in the day instead of early so maybe this is a bit of an aberration, though I see most people think they weigh more later on.
I have been waiting to weigh 82 kg which is a weight I hovered at for a long time on the way up – but I have skipped it! … I hope! I might not weigh myself next week just in case. My husband says he thinks I looked especially slimmer this week. My neck looks a bit older again too, so maybe it’s a real loss.
I don’t normally lose this much, and I don’t know what is different about this week. I unintentionally skipped lunch one day and I was a little more careful about my exercise but not much. It seemed pretty much the same as usual to me.
I have lost enough now to start feeling like I am a person in a before and after picture. Not ready to post. Just feeling a little weird like I am someone else, because on one level I don't think I ever thought it would be me, but in a way now it already is.
I got passport photos. I think I look like myself again, though a bit older than last time I looked like myself. I do feel a little uncomfortable about the way my weight loss is affecting my skin. I hope it doesn’t keep changing at this rate, however if it does I guess that’s a small price to pay for being able to move properly again.
You know I can already feel myself starting to fuss about how the way I actually would normally look, is not ideal. I really need to get over that. Far out. I thought I was over it years and years ago.
Breakfast ~9:30 2 weetbix,. 1C lowfat soy milk. 1/3 C tinned peaches. 1 slice wholemeal toast with minimal margarine and marmalade. 1 boiled egg. 1 C coffee with 40 ml Hilo.
Snack 6:00 ½ Salada cracker.
.
Dinner 7:00 Fish and prawns in a cream sauce with mangoes and mushrooms on rice. And a nice clean little salad of lettuce, cucumber, capsicum and sugar snap peas.
I could not finish the fish and now an hour has passed and I still feel weighed down. Oh well, it was supposed to be something special for Easter. I would prefer special things that feel good afterwards but the occasional off meal has to happen sometimes I guess.
Edit:
Exercise 9:10 pm 1 hour local walk. Like last night. I think I should start going earlier on the weekends. This time I startled a couple standing in the shadows at my local park, and caused a pair, who had been reclining between the goal posts at the oval, to sit up and talk about school!
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be_gone_soon
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Have a great weekend!!
M2M
New member
That IS the most amazing thing isn't it? It boggles my mind!
As for the skin - I definitely notice more wrinkles - I feel I look older - but I'm ok with that, I AM older
And I'd rather have a fit body with the wrinkles then have my wrinkles stretched out over extra weight!Perfection is illusion
daiseeangel
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thanks for stopping in!
your avatar is beautiful!!
your avatar is beautiful!!
T2 Trucker
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Oye !! those weetbix sure make pretty women !!
Love the avatar and a great choice to show us your lovely face
*youtubes Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman"*
Love the avatar and a great choice to show us your lovely face
*youtubes Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman"*