Fetchie Flab Fighters
80 watchers
Nov 2024
7:11am, 13 Nov 2024
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RevBarbaraG
Well, persistence pays off. I weighed in this morning at 13st 13.7 - which is the lowest I have been in 30 years!! OK, so I’m going to IKEA later, and there will be meatballs and CHIPS, and quite possibly cake. So there will probably be a carb-based water retention rebound. And we know that weight fluctuates day to day, and it could be another week or two before I am reliably underneath 14st every single day. But it will come. Because the fat is (slowly, gradually) leaving me. I can see the remodelling happening, I can feel more muscle/bone underneath the flabbiness which is left. I got annoyed with someone at church on Sunday - she came up behind me and said “Has anyone ever told you you look skinny?”. No, no they haven’t - because I am NOT skinny. Skinny means not only slim, but very slim - possibly even underweight. Skinny means visible cheekbones and collar bones and a very narrow waist. I am not underweight, I am not skinny. I wouldn’t even say I was slim. But I am starting to look…. normalish! Mind you, I happened to bump into someone else from church yesterday when I was out walking. She said she’d wanted to speak to me on Sunday to say how good I was looking. Turns out she is the same height as me, and the same weight - and she’d been for a Well Woman check recently and been told she was bordering on obese. She was upset by that, because “I don’t think of myself as obese”. She then said she wouldn’t have said *I* was obese, even before (when I was between 18 and 19 stone, wearing size 22-24). Have people become so used to obesity they can’t see it any more? I do know, of course, that weight/BMI are not the important indicators. But by waist/height ratio and body fat percentage, I still have work to do. That’s what matters. That, and how I feel. I feel great! But I’m aware of areas of potential improvement! |
Nov 2024
7:23am, 13 Nov 2024
4,832 posts
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Shades
RevB - congratulations, another significant milestone reached and very well deserved. I do think there's something in your comment that perhaps people have become so used to obesity they don't see it. My neighbour who is gaining weight quickly and now diagnosed as diabetic stopped for a chat the other day. When I said I was off to the gym, he said, 'why are you going to the gym, you don't need it, you're not fat'. I replied that was why I was going to the gym, to stay healthy. |
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Nov 2024
8:03am, 13 Nov 2024
3,848 posts
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RevBarbaraG
So true, @Shades There are habits which make us healthy and habits which make us sick. The habits which make us a certain way are the same habits which keep us that way. |
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Nov 2024
8:04am, 13 Nov 2024
3,849 posts
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RevBarbaraG
What did you say to your neighbour, @Shades ?
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Nov 2024
8:10am, 13 Nov 2024
25,122 posts
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geordiegirl
Your post makes me so happy Rev you have totally turned hour life and health around most magnificently you are truly inspiring and shows what the right will and acceptance to change brings. Bloody well done. On obese I personally feel it’s outdated, not the metrics but where it came from is based on people in a totally different world to know. I feel it needs to be rebaselined. I had a friend very slim size 10 but made of muscle who was told she was obese because her weight tripped into the band. That is another good point shades, if you’re perceived as healthy due to your size you don’t need to do exercise or watch what you eat - totally missing the point that you are where you are because you look after you and your health. It’s a lifestyle not a diet! And moreover I love your outlook knowing your weight will likely increase after a treat meal today but also the confidence it will come back as it’s here now and that’s the start of the sub 14 journey! Me well lost the plot totally post covid, reduction in training, increase in work stress. I am totally convinced that cortisol has an impact on weight (& the medic teaching us on resilience at the conference explained why) and that with loss of focus due to the above has stalled my weight loss. Also I’ve got my big run event this weekend so trying to cut down these last couple of weeks hasn’t been done but I’ve been trying to eat well (and when at home it’s all good home cooked packed with veg meals) In the past I’d have beat myself up but I’m accepting that I’m not going to make any great shakes before my holiday next Thursday so I’m going to go away my husband and friends love me (& my extra few lbs) and it is only a few lbs, I’d like to lose 7 but any more would be a bonus. I’ll reset when I get back. |
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Nov 2024
8:24am, 13 Nov 2024
4,833 posts
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Shades
@RevBarbaraG - I told him I was going to the gym to try and maintain my good health, but my reply was wasted on him. I've tried to mildly lecture him on improving his eating habits as he's recently diagnosed with diabetes. He freely admits he lives off ready meals. He seems to think that diabetes medication is all he needs. He's a really nice guy, but incredibly naïve. @geordiegirl that's a great post, I endorse everything you are saying. Pre ultra is not a time to try and cut down, you need full glycogen stores. |
Nov 2024
8:24am, 13 Nov 2024
28,792 posts
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Lizzie W
Fantastic work, RevBG. Finding my old work clothes at my parents' house, I was not skinny then but I can't imagine ever being able to wear them again. We've been looking through old photos, too, and everyone is slim, even the "plump" granny wasn't "obese" (1968) |
Nov 2024
8:31am, 13 Nov 2024
59,196 posts
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EvilPixie
Great work Rev! Shades my dad was type 2, thought he had to eat biscuits to maintain the sugar levels that his drugs were aligned to! GG cortisol 100% affects weight and is proven to. I really went off the rails Sunday (mother induced) but hope to escape tomorrow and try and return to a normal life and reset |
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Nov 2024
8:45am, 13 Nov 2024
25,123 posts
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geordiegirl
We sadly live in a world where the majority of people are happy to pop a pill to fix their problems, I've always been averse to taking pills of any kind. Massive issues with endometriosis all my pubescent life meant I was constantly given painkillers but all it did was mask the problem. I want to fix the problem not hide behind a pill. Re cortisol I've proven it to myself too currently I'm not eating any differently but weight is being stubborn to shift (and slight increase) and it is the work stress that is keeping it there. It was nice having a medic explain it. |
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Nov 2024
8:56am, 13 Nov 2024
59,198 posts
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EvilPixie
Also on bmi … international rugby players are all muscle and morbidly obese We totally have normalised being overweight and clothes don’t help. I have size 10 jeans when I am 100% not size 10! If you hold together clothes from now and even 20 year ago they are bigger now Shops want to flatter us and so we think we’re ok really |
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