A minor milestone
Mar. 17th, 2003 04:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitanziDiets are still boring to everyone who isn't on one - but I'll take my minor triumphs where I can get them, I guess!
I really don't feel like I'm getting anywhere very fast, especially with having a very hard time getting strictly back on diet after the trip to England, but I did get a bit of a boost the other day.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ladyat has lost quite a bit of weight herself, and passed on an assortment of jeans and pants that she had undergrown. I found this weekend that I can fit into all of them quite comfortably except for the very smallest, which will fit but pinches. Considering that's a size 14, and I started this whole diet when I literally burst a seam on a size 18, I am feeling rather pleased at the moment.
Guess I am a bit shallow on this, but my creeping weight - and volume! - is something I've been working on for months and concerned about for years. There are a lot of benefits in how healthy I feel as well, but I have to admit there's a certain satisfaction in zipping up those smaller jeans.
I really don't feel like I'm getting anywhere very fast, especially with having a very hard time getting strictly back on diet after the trip to England, but I did get a bit of a boost the other day.
ladyat has lost quite a bit of weight herself, and passed on an assortment of jeans and pants that she had undergrown. I found this weekend that I can fit into all of them quite comfortably except for the very smallest, which will fit but pinches. Considering that's a size 14, and I started this whole diet when I literally burst a seam on a size 18, I am feeling rather pleased at the moment. Guess I am a bit shallow on this, but my creeping weight - and volume! - is something I've been working on for months and concerned about for years. There are a lot of benefits in how healthy I feel as well, but I have to admit there's a certain satisfaction in zipping up those smaller jeans.
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Date: 2003-03-17 01:35 pm (UTC)Me? My watch strap nearly rotates freely on my wrist, and my belt on my jeans is 4 holes tighter than it was in August.
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Date: 2003-03-17 02:23 pm (UTC)I always was a competitive soul; maybe you will serve as inspiration for me to keep making progress?
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Date: 2003-03-17 02:15 pm (UTC)Excellently done!
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Date: 2003-03-17 03:05 pm (UTC)Of course I got to see you in a bathing suit. Mmmmm mmmm! Looking good, Girl! ;-)
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Date: 2003-03-17 03:40 pm (UTC)As I get older I see more and more wisdom in thinking we humans are to a great extent our bodies. Nothing shallow in that.
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Date: 2003-03-17 06:53 pm (UTC)(The leap of logic there was that the aim of yoga is the unification of mind, body, and spirit. I haven't been known for my coherence lately. *grins*)
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Date: 2003-03-17 04:21 pm (UTC)Now THERE'S something to whistle at!
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Date: 2003-03-17 04:23 pm (UTC)That she wore at the...
Ouch! Owww! Help!
Ann Onynous [eg].
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Date: 2003-03-17 05:10 pm (UTC)1) How do you know what I wore?
b) If you do know, you know it wasn't a bikini.
iii) You're beyond help, dear!
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Date: 2003-03-17 11:20 pm (UTC)came up with two pictures of you - one on The Wheel and one with two other blonde
filker babes. No bathing suit in evidence (unless it was under your coat on The Wheel).
I must regretfully admit I don't know what you wore. May I dream?
56.2246575342466) I was flashing back to a day on a lake beach in Sharon before a
MASSFILC meeting one summer. You *did* wear a red and black besplotched, er,
swimsuit then. And my ankle is almost recovered. :)
8.306623862918) That's a basic posit.
Ann O. (numerically meaningful).
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Date: 2003-03-18 04:30 am (UTC)3$5^7) Scuse, we had that conversation then - it's not a bikini. Repeat after me. Bikini's are uncomfortable, pinch, and slide in unfortunate directions.
square root of 57) Yep!
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Date: 2003-03-17 03:10 pm (UTC)*HUGS*
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Date: 2003-03-17 04:24 pm (UTC)I sound like an ad, and that's awful, I apologize. I really am psyched about it, though.
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Date: 2003-03-17 06:05 pm (UTC)1) Out of curiosity, were any of your earlier diets shared by a SO? Maybe having
A'd Doc also on Atkins is helping. Or maybe just A'd Doc being A'd Doc helps.
PS - I can be inconsistent too! Phbbbbt! ;)
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Date: 2003-03-17 06:09 pm (UTC)37.5) Nope, and that's also a good point.
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Date: 2003-03-17 04:41 pm (UTC)Hmmm. I'm still alive! OK...
Glad to hear you got back on the diet after Quinze. I was wondering how it was
going, but a flurry of pre Con Comm meeting activity allowed me to procrastinate on
our e-mail, so the question didn't get asked.
I'm not too sure what the difference is between a size 18 and a 14, but Bravo!
"there's a certain satisfaction in zipping up those smaller jeans."
And going the other direction, too, I should imagine. [EG]
Ann Onynous (pressing the Luck of the Irish).
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Date: 2003-03-17 05:17 pm (UTC)It's closer to the difference between a 20 and a 14, considering how I was stretching the seams. Poundwise, it appears to be roughly 30 lbs.
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Date: 2003-03-17 05:52 pm (UTC)I've also been a size 28. I've spent years coming to terms with loving myself no matter what my weight (although I admit that one reason I'm back on weight watchers is that I'm skirting the dangerous edge of hating the way I look). I've come to terms with the idea that I have a problem with food the way some people have a problem with alcohol or any other addiction. I'm not in a 12 step program but hey, I know I eat for stress, sometimes for boredom, and definitely for consolation.
SO - is it shallow to rejoice in having the comittment to stick to a plan to take care of yourself and get healthier? I sure hope not!
Gotta run but wanted to say "YAY! for you!" WIsh me luck back on Weight Watchers. (btw - I don't care what "religion" you use to lose weight! ;-) (grin)
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Date: 2003-03-18 08:28 am (UTC)the taste, smell, look of food, and there is some correlation between eating and needing to eat I think that's entertainment but appropriate. Foods just too sensuous to ignore. :-) It's when the entertainment is to fill a gap left by boredom or to sublimate frustration/stress etc - then that's a problem. (at least that's my take on it! ;-)
I really loved the Geneen Roth books on eating. I did some of her exercises and found them *very* interesting.
HUGS! We have to be gentle to ourselves
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Date: 2003-03-17 08:36 pm (UTC)Here's a gauge of how skinny you really are: I'm a size 14. I'm not tiny, but I'm not huge either. I can still get away with most of my skimpy clothes.
Love,
LMG
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Date: 2003-03-17 11:01 pm (UTC)14 is the same size as me!
congrats!
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Date: 2003-03-18 04:27 am (UTC)Um, are we talking equivilent sizes? I'm looking at american jeans.
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Date: 2003-03-18 03:39 pm (UTC)lass. With forty Comments (and counting), they just ain't true, it seems.
Ann Onynous.
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Date: 2003-03-20 07:20 pm (UTC)I've managed to hold onto my loss of one belt notch myself, but with my recent bout of prednisone I'm fighting tooth and nail to not gain.