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By Groovybabe • Sep 1st, 2007 • Category: being motivated, diet management, eating healthily, exercise, health, life, weightloss rulesWith each and every day that passes I become more and more impressed with my weightloss efforts. Not so much because I am watching everything I put into my mouth, not even so much seeing the numbers on the scales dwindling. But the changes in my body, both externally and internally, and in my mind. Changes that money cannot buy.
It’s the little changes I see day by day that mean the most to me. This morning in the shower I bent down to clean my legs and noticed (really NOTICED) how much slender they are. They are so much more straight up and down than they ever were. I’m sure my instructor measured my thigh wrong because she didn’t see much of a loss, but actually looking, I am starting to develop shape that I thought out of my grasp.
I have also found myself going on 15 minute walks (each way) just to window shop whereas beforeit would take me a week to muster up the energy to contemplate such a walk. I now do this most days. I walk that 15 minutes to get the bus because there are more buses there and less waiting time outside my road. If I have no money for buses, I walk to the gym. Physically I couldn’t have done this before and now I look forward to it.
I am also noticing a real change in my jawline. When I was at my highest weight one of my biggest problem areas, something I was more self conscious about, was my double chin. I hated it. My paternal grandmother (RIP) had a really bad chicken neck and I have been so scared of inheriting it but my double chin is disappearing. I don’t have a defined jawline yet but I don’t have to pull my skin back far to see what I would look like with a defined jawline, and I like it a lot.
All this is why, when I get bored from not being able to sleep at night and my mind turns to food, I am able to fight the urge to eat. I have lost 35lbs/2.7stones/15.9kg and seen so much change already. I am only a quarter of the wayto my final goal but all these changes make going the rest of the way so much easier. I still get down and depressed and want to turn to food but if those kinds of thoughts crop into my mind then I give myself a stern talking to. The only good I ever got from binge eating was the immediate rush at feeling saited. It never lasted more than 20 minutes. Then I felt rubbish for giving in to food and the food itself was so bad that it left my insides feeling dirty and the chemicals just made me want to keep impulse eating. I was under the illusion that I needed to eat like this but I didn’t. What I needed was to eat healthy meals, take regular exercise and cut junk out of my life - I see that now. That is why I know I won’t fall off the wagon completely ever again. There will be days when I have a bit more to eat than I planned but they will be what they are, nothing important. Weighing 16 and a half stones was a DREAM three months ago and now look, I am living my dream after JUST three months. All I have to do is keep up what I am doing for another 9 months to reach goal. In the time it takes for a baby to be conceived and born, I can have my body and my life back. Nine months is not really a big ask at all.
Who is in with me?
Groovybabe is 14.9 stones today and has lost 2lbs at her last weigh in.
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You are doing FANTASTICALLY with the weightloss and I am so pleased for you, despite not commenting very often on it. I do read everything you post. It’s lovely to start to see the changes for yourself and be able to recognise them.
You are brilliant and are showing determination I dream about. Keep it up! You should be so proud xx
15 kilos is so incredibly much! Wow, I admire your progress. Prompted by your observations and weight loss, I have started to pay more attention to what I eat because during the summer I gained about 12 pounds–and became a weight I had not been since high school! This shocked me, especially as I had just started exercising more.
Now I started a completely different diet to make sure I eat all the good things in correct proportion. Let’s see how it goes. So I’m definitely rooting here for you
Let’s start the countdown on 9 months!
In 9 onths time i will be back to fitting in my size 10 stuff again, and would have been - hopefully - for a few months before that.
Bring it on!
me me me! I have been really having a problem getting my head in the right place but I want to recommit. I am through with despising myself. I have realized the void I have been trying to fill. I will fill it with the proper thing now. No longer food. I know that I can do this!!! I really appreciate your words. You always seem to say the thing I need most to hear.
Rosabel
It’s so good to hear that someone else is inspired. I hear your pain about that extra weight, I really do. It can be the last 12 pounds or so that are the worst, I know my self esteem really plummetted with my last stone. I’ll be rooting for you too, keep me updated!
Jo
We can do it! You will do it way before 9 months time, I am sure of it!
Rachel B
I’m glad you find some use for my words. As well as using this journal to give myself a talking to, I’m really impressed that it works for others. Keep us updated on your progress.
I’m with you, girl! Keep up the good work! You can do it! We can do it! And congrats on the changes that you’ve been noticing. That is just great!!!
It IS the little things, aye….
I should get a “What Would C Do?” bracelet! ha ha
Chubby Chick
Thanks. Good luck to you!
Betz
You don’t need one! You can just read my blog instead, lol! Anyway you know what to do already and you’re doing it!
Feels great, doesn’t it? I’m in! I was going to say I’ve got a couple of years to go because that is how long I plan it to take for me to get to target but the reality is I can’t think that way. It isn’t 2 years, a gold watch and I am done. It’s the rest of my life.
Great work! I’m definitely in it for the rest of my life too.
John
I was talking to my gym instructor about this the other day. I said that I understand that I will need to exercise for the rest of my life now, not just to lose weight. She agreed and said if she doesn’t exercise for a few days she loses tone and its really noticable…and she has a lovely body. Its about losing and then maintaining. And caring about our health while we are around to care.
R.E.
Yay!