Annette, remember fat doesn’t make you fat; excess carbs do. I think you’re going to be okay.
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Annette, was this on a fast day? You know you can always trade a day if you bump on a fast day. Why not make Tuesday a fast day, if Monday was the original day? You can always switch them back the next week.
Beating yourself up is useless and besides, I know some thugs over in West Oakland that’ll rob and beat you for the low, low price of $39.99.
What say ye?
Me again
Am sure you’ve picked yourself up again, Annette, after ‘Nutgate’.
I weighed myself on Tuesday – first time since early November. I had lost a further 6lb.
Can you believe it? My initial reaction was slight disappointment, because the rate of loss has, unsurprisingly, slowed. I realised it was the part of me which wants overnight success which had reacted like that. I had to do quite a lot of work on myself not to get into that awful diet mentality which might tell myself; “Well, not as good as Id hoped so now I’ll REALLY blow it”, while heading off to the chocolate shop!
In the end, I decided my glass was half full, not half empty. I was even more cheered when I reread in the book that the average weight loss for a woman is ‘just under 1 pound a week’ – making me bang on target!
I haven’t measured myself yet, to match with the weigh-in, although I did so in early Jan and those numbers were smaller, too.
I have a question: where is ‘The Waist’? !!! Is it the part which curves in the most (which has got smaller since last September) or is it the circumference which includes the bellybutton? If it’s the latter, that is definitely my most stubborn area for reduction. I’m asking because of the 0.5 waist measurement to height ratio, which really is my ultimate goal.
Take good care y’all
BB
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Annette,
I’m an almond eater also.
I understand that with raw nuts there is a disconnect between the calories listed and the calories that are actually available to you (a proportion of the fat and calories goes straight through and is ‘excreted’).
So yes, they’re calorific, but you can’t absorb all those calories!
BB I was having a bad morning, after 3 Fasts this week my weight hasn’t moved, the closer I get to being a normal BMI the slower it gets, and I was disappointed not to have lost this week at all. Then I read your post about getting over that feeling and looked further back, Through the month of January as a whole, where I actually lost 4lbs so I too am bang on target.
Thanks for making me think about the bigger picture.
I love that I can get reassurance and supportat the low moments from reading back through the threads
Weebil
Hi
Glad my thoughts helped, Weebil. Getting closer to a normal BMI sounds exciting (and inspiring).
etherial, you are probably too young to remember this 1980s song by Madness:
“Baggy trousers, lots of fun …” Am humming it now in your honour.
Annette, good luck with the fasting in this ‘bracing’ January weather. Yesterday evening I counted that I was wearing 17 garments (inc slippers). Plus a blanket when I was on the sofa watching telly. I just kept layering up!
Have a good weekend, All.
Hi etherial They were a bunch of cheeky chappie London lads in the 1980s who had a string of hits this side of the pond – but not sure they ‘broke’ the USA.
Meant to say thanks for the info about exact location of waist, Annette. Hmm, wish it was a couple of inches higher: it seems to be shrinking nicely up there. The navel area, however, is still rather, shall we say, expansive 😉 Good luck with your 10k.
Annette, sorry me again! Thread interloper…
You got me thinking with the whole waist thing. And despite it being brass monkeys at the mo, I braved lifting my clothes to inspect my waist (I live in Cumbria and sewed myself into my clothes for winter 🙂 ).
It turns out that my belly button is pretty much on a level with the top of my hip bones, and the circumference there is 4 – 5 inches greater than my narrowest point.
If my waist is my belly button, at 32 inches, I’m unhealthy (going into a decline as I type…). If my waist is my narrowest point, at 26 – 27 inches I’m OK (starting to rally round…)
My waist is where a waistband would sit, and that is most definitely my narrowest point! Gravity has stolen my belly button…
Thanks Annette,
Re: your measurements. Well I have been you! I am at maintenance now, and have been since last June, so I’m your future!
I always was a pear, not an apple, and the weight definitely came off my top half first. I have managed to shift it from my bottom half (although I still have chubby knees 🙁 ), but at the expense of my chest! I don’t fill a bra now…on the plus side, running is a much more pleasant experience!
Annette congrats on the 8lbs I am impressed that you ran a 10k! I am in South Berwick, Maine USA where it has been between 10F to -10F and we are expecting our 2nd blizzard of the week tomorrow. Already 2′ on the ground and another 1 1/2′ tomorrow….sigh….
I am off to the gym while I can still get there and that is my plan for February. Its just impossible outside. The tape measure made me rather happy this morning but I am annoyed with the scale. 1 1/2″ gone I reminded myself that I got rid of the holiday lbs so I am really back at Nov weight. The trick for me is to not keep losing the same 2lbs over and over again.
Hey everyone…i started 5:2 6 weeks ago….well,im actually doing 4:3.Feel heaps better/more energy /feel slimmer.
In the first week i lost 3 lbs and then regained 1 lb when i had the flu.
I determind not to weigh myself til i had completed 8 weeks.
This morning i thought i would measure myself…in preparation for weigh in in 2 weeks.
I have lost NO inches at all….bust/waist/hips/thighs/knees…i am really fearful about getting on the scales in 2 weeks.
I have had an obsessive relationship with food and scales since i was 14.
I started at 13stone 7 lbs.
Im looking at small goals but want to reach those!eg…psychologically…i just want to get back under 13 stone.
im not “giving up” as this is a new way of life and not a diet.
But i cant understand how my inchs havent budged…and so i am afraid the lbs wont have either.
Hello lil tattoed lady and welcome
I can feel your frustration about apparent lack of shrinkage in measurements. I’m glad you started your post with 3 positives you’ve felt so far. Well done with thinking of this as a new way of life, rather than a diet. I think you are wise not to weigh yourself more often.
As you can see, I can’t give you any ‘answers’ but I can and do give you my support. Bodies are very individual, so stick with yours and the way it is doing things! I do like this thread because I, too, had an obsessive relationship with weight in my teens. (I have written about it in my profile for this site, if you can access that.) However, I do sometimes wonder, with the measuring tape, whether I am measuring in exactly the same place as I did before. Eg I found my neck size had increased by half an inch – but I’m sure I just measured 2 different places on each occasion.
I would say ‘have faith’ and keep working to your short term goals – but be flexible too. For instance, I dropped a dress size fairly quickly and presumed the 2nd drop would come as quickly. Two months after my hoped-for date, my clothes are looser; but still I’m not quite at that 2nd size down. Meanwhile, though, I’m loving the greater energy and sense of control around food (still learning!) which 5:2 is giving me.
I hope you find something helpful in this. Keep in touch with us!
Bootsy
oae – I feel a bit embarrassed moaning about the little cold snap in England, when you are enduring ‘permafrost’! Hope you enjoy the gym.
Annette – we are almost neighbours then, as I am in Bristol. Yes, Bath sure is hilly! Great self-talk about the ST pud, sounds like it is losing its allure.
etherial – I know I need to increase my activity level too; get more consistent with it.
My February aims:
Fast every monday and thursday.
Keep to my TDEE on 2 other days a week.
(When I tried ‘dieting’ with cal counting, many years ago, it seemed oppressive; but since using it on fasting days, I’m coming to see it as a helpful structure.) The long-term aim is to eat to my TDEE on most days.
I have ordered the Fast Exercise book. Well, it’s a start!
Hi Bootsy B, Ah yes, the waist line conundrum… where exactly is it??? I just measure at my belly button merely to have a consistent landmark! As for the neck measure, I don’t know how but I seemed to have gained a 1/2″ last month! I’m with you, I think dress size is the best measure anyway.
Am trying 5/2 weeks, Mon/Thurs with an occasional 3/4 week Mon/Wed/Fri. I think I need to keep my calories at the TDEE for the weight that I want to BECOME. After all why would I want to eat to my current weight TDEE, I already know how that happened!
Well, keeping it real, I did not keep to my fast today. I could not stand feeling so cold, so emotionally depleted. I had retreated to bed by 8 pm but got up again and ate some stodge and drank a milky coffee. That’s how it is: I am trying not to give myself a hard time but just accept it. I acknowledged to myself that much of the motivation was ’emotional eating’.
I am sure I will get into a better place sooner or later and my motivation for fasting will flow from that. I feel confident I’ll still be able to keep to my TDEE plan and not sabotage everything. @oae – I’m keeping to my ‘goal weight’ tdee, too, rather than my present one. It still seems plenty.
Thanks for being there, all
x
I am the best that I’ve been for ages!
Unshiftable chest/cough thingy for weeks and too many hours at work made fasting too difficult for me.
Today i can truly say that I feel healthy – first time in yonks.
But got on scales this morning, first time in a couple of months, 2 fast days so far this week and there was a massive drop in my weight.
Has kept me buoyed up all day.
Even don’t mind that my moobs ache from yesterday’s gym.
Right, I’m off to the pub – you can all come too if you like.
Hi Annette,
Long time no speak – I’ve been following your progress, just been very very busy with work – although things are calming down a lot now.
I’ve kind of stabilised around 11st 1lb – my lowest in Nov was 10st 12.5lb but a combination of Xmas, going on holiday and being really busy at work in January has meant that although I’ve lost some holiday pounds, I am still trying to regain my all time low measurement.
This week I finally got time to get to the gym – and although it was hard it was OK. I am aiming for a 2nd visit tomorrow. I still think of your interval training advice from last year and do my own version of this on the cross trainer. It was definitely working towards the end of last year so I need to get back in the swing.
Done 2 fast days this week and 1 low-ish calorie day, but I am not very hopeful of any kind of loss when I weigh in tomorrow. I’m determined to make a better effort next week and hopefully get back into the 10s.
Hope all is well with you and those waistbands are loosening!
Cath xx
@etherial I think that there is a song about that?
Somebody quick! Snatch me! I haven’t had a glass of wine all week because I think it may be a culprit in my slow weight loss and I received some exciting news today, (don’t want to say just yet, but will keep you apprised)and want to celebrate with a glass of my merlot/cab blend, but I keep telling myself to have a good cup of Peets Black Tea w/splenda. I do love that tea.
WHAM! Okay, felt that and it was a good snatch. I’m going to go make some tea now. Talk at you later.
Bootsy Badger (cute moniker): Try eating an ounce of macadamia nuts and a full glass of water. It will kill your appetite; seriously. Tastes good, too.
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