Hi girls
Sorry I have been MIA for so long, but I don't seem to have missed much does no one post their weight on the weekly weigh in thread anymore?
I've had not too bad a time over the past couple of weeks well the week before last TOM made a surprise appearance after only 9 days and I gained a pound, but I still lost another 2 inches so I wasn't too depressed about it and last week I lost another 2 lbs so I was very happy with that .
I am just back from a session at the gym and a long long chat with my personal trainer.
I said right at the start of this journey that I was setting my target weight at 10 stone 2 lbs because that was what was recommended from all the slimming magazines and the club I attended years ago, but that I would not go that far if I didn't think I needed to just because someone somewhere said that is what I should weigh for my height.
The one thing my trainer pointed out was that these weights recommended by the magazines and clubs only go off your height, they do not take into account muscle mass and tone and as we all know muscle weighs more than fat so you could look really good but be heavier than the charts say you should be. Well on his recommendation I have readjusted my final goal to 11 stone because he really does think that will be enough. Something in the back of my mind keeps telling me that it wont be enough and I think it is probably pshycological because of the recommended weight, but we have reached a compromise...I am now setting 11 stone as my final target, but when I reach that we will look at it again and if I am not happy then I can lose a little more, but I will definitely take his advice when I get there because I don't think my own feelings would be unbiased, I am sure I will always think I look fatter than I am and his opinion will be totally neutral. I am already getting people telling me that I have done great but that I should stop now because I am looking too thin...lol
I know that isn't true yet, but I can understand why they would be saying it...some people it will be jealousy, but others it will be because they remember what I looked like before, when they saw me then, they saw my size first and then my face...now they see my face first and that does look a whole lot different than it did before. I will defintely have to rely on the opinions of people I trust when I reach that 11 stone target because I really don't want to make the mistake of going too far.
I was interested in your comments about regaining weight after you had got to your targets...
Carol you said you kidded yourself that you could eat whatever you wanted because you weren't on a diet anymore...does that mean you went back to eating more or less the same food as you ate before you started to lose the weight...or did you just eat more of the things that you had become used to eating?
I have found that I just don't like the things I used to eat before I started, with the exception of chocolate of course, but even that, now I will have a small bar and I am quite satisfied with it, these days when I get the munchies I am much happier having raw veg or fruit than anything sweet, my palate has definitely changed which can only be a good thing
My child bearing years are over too, so I wont have to worry about that
I agree with the advice about setting yourself a weight that when you reach it is back on the diet for a couple of weeks and I do think that so long as you keep a check on your weight and take care of the few pounds that you may gain as soon as you gain them instead of letting them build up will make maintaining a lot easier.
Nicky well done on your loss so far and those 11lbs to reach your goal will soon be gone you must feel so much better I know I do. I can't wait to see just 11lbs left to go on my sig
Hope everyone is hanging in there, I'm off to catch up on all the posts I have missed while I've been away now.
Ali
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