I didn’t check in this week as I stayed the same.
Thanks to @MagnoliaTreePetals for sharing Zoe podcast. The past couple of months I appear to have plateaued almost maintaining, even though I still have many more pounds too lose. The podcast was most interesting and I am hoping that having a better understanding and trying a different approach will kick start things for me.
However, if it doesn’t, even although I still weigh more than most or our groups starting weight . I feel amazing. I have more confidence in all areas. My swollen ankles have gone and my psoriasis has 95% improved.
With respect to clothes shopping, on reflection, for 30 years or so, I have very rarely bought an item of clothing because I liked it. I have bought it because it fitted. If I found something that fitted, I would buy more of the same but in different colours, again not because I liked it, but because it fitted.
If I saw an item of clothing that I thought looked lovely, clicked on the sizes available, you simple don’t get beautiful clothes in a size 24. You get material that is shaped to cover a huge body!
However, now that I am down to a size 18 which I haven’t been for over 30 years, I went into M & S and I tried on a pair of straight legged cords which fitted beautifully and a jumper that stopped above the hips. It was like an optical illusion! Instead of a wee fat dumpy hunched image, my legs looked elongated and went on for ever and with my improved posture, holding myself straighter, I felt taller. . I am no longer hunched over because of the weight of my breasts.
So I bought myself, not 1 pair of cords, but 4 pairs, in different colours and I didn’t buy them because they fitted, for the first time in years, I bought them because I looked and felt fabulous in them.
Last night, I was browsing online for tops and jumpers. It really is a total different experience when you can buy clothes you like. Although, I don’t actually know what image/look to go for.
Finally, this year I might get myself my first ever Christmas jumper.