ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
(This is a long thread so I can't remember if we have covered this before ...!)
I have lost a lot of weight quickly in the past and my mind never really got used to it. I felt as though I was too skinny and subconsciously, I was feeling a desire to put weight back on. It wasn't really a big surprise, therefore, when I did!
This time round, my initial weight loss was rapid due to serious illness (~2 stone in a month!), but it has taken another 3 years to get the other 2.5 stone off. I have had time to adapt to my changing size so my body does not feel alien to me. In fact, I sometimes even think that I have put weight back on, but the scales and tape measure do not lie - I have hit a plateau, but I am not getting bigger.
I can see how anorexia could develop. My size is now constant, but it doesn't feel like that.
From a cycling point of view, I'd like to lose another stone. I would still be a stone heavier than Chris Froome, who is about the same height as me. I will probably make do with losing half a stone and put up with the last inch or two of flab round the waist. (If I were to get rid of the flab, then I'd only end up with loose skin which wouldn't really look great either!)
I have lost a lot of weight quickly in the past and my mind never really got used to it. I felt as though I was too skinny and subconsciously, I was feeling a desire to put weight back on. It wasn't really a big surprise, therefore, when I did!
This time round, my initial weight loss was rapid due to serious illness (~2 stone in a month!), but it has taken another 3 years to get the other 2.5 stone off. I have had time to adapt to my changing size so my body does not feel alien to me. In fact, I sometimes even think that I have put weight back on, but the scales and tape measure do not lie - I have hit a plateau, but I am not getting bigger.
I can see how anorexia could develop. My size is now constant, but it doesn't feel like that.
From a cycling point of view, I'd like to lose another stone. I would still be a stone heavier than Chris Froome, who is about the same height as me. I will probably make do with losing half a stone and put up with the last inch or two of flab round the waist. (If I were to get rid of the flab, then I'd only end up with loose skin which wouldn't really look great either!)
but that's 46lbs shifted by healthier eating
, riding my bike
and doing some gym stuff 
. 6 months. I've been hovering around that last half a stone or so for about 3 months now, 
