Hello guys < waves>
Well done everyone for KOKO!
I popped in to the section to see if there is another bootcamp coming up. I am still plodding on, as BIWI says I see it was a "way of eating" rather than a "diet" so I want to be like this from now on.
I bought trousers in a size smaller a couple of weeks ago and they are now ridiculously large on the waist and look stupid. However I think that the next size down might be too tight on the hips/arse... it's interesting to note that clothes seem to be sized for the big stomach, caused by sugar.
When I was young the complaint you often heard when people were overweight was being "pear shaped," it was a common English thing and people would say "I'm the classic British pear."
I am old enough to remember when the Hip and Thigh Diet came out.
The idea behind it, Rosemary Conley said, was that women always want to lose weight from their hips and thighs most of all, but when they diet it goes from elsewhere and stays on their hips and thighs, however dietitians always say you can't "spot reduce." She disagreed and developed the hip and thigh diet to be low fat to target that area, and it worked! My memory is that the Low Fat movement sprung from this although it could be wrong. (I am not blaming RC, as her diet was for a specific reason.)
But now you don't seem to see many pear shaped people, people seem to be apple shaped, because of all the extra sugar.
Oh dear I have rambled on!
As an aside I have been going to my exercise class and feeling pleased because I have been managing so much better. I am getting fitter! - I said to myself. Then I thought maybe it's just getting easier as there is 10lb less of me to cart around . . . 