Three dress sizes down in 4 months
Before I start; I’ve never posted anything on Reddit before so if there’s anything wrong with what I’m in regard to formatting or spelling you’ll have to forgive me. Anyway, I’ve started to get fed up with being fat at the beginning of August and thought I’d do my meal replacement diet again with a low carb evening meal. It soon became low carb and low calorie consumption or what is sometimes listed as CICO. It worked pretty well. I’ve lost 39lbs (from 191lbs) and certainly felt better for it. However, I also wanted my plan to work long term so I had low carb weekends with alcohol when I went to see my partner every other week. It worked and I’d still loose weight. In addition my friend got me into body pump, which I do twice a week in addition to one class of HIIT. I’ve been pretty disheartened lately as I didn’t loose any weight. I attributed it to too many weekends of alcohol with low carb eating. However, today I went into a Ted Baker shop and tried on a size 1 dress, which had such a titchy waist on the hanger that I’d never thought it could possibly get passed my thighs...but you’d never guess what, it did go past my thighs and zipped up too. It was still a tad tight but I wore it proudly. It had made me realise that what the number on the scales says is one thing; but your overall measurements are also important. When I got back home and dug my tape measure out, I found the that I’m circumference wise much smaller than I was at an even lower weight last year. This has lead me to the likely conclusion that I’ve put on more muscle than I had last year. It made me feel certainly more proud of my overall achievement and consider the bigger picture rather than just the number shown on the scales.
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