Thar she blows

[caddyman]

Having kind of stopped paying attention to my efforts to lose tonnage for most of the past few months, it was no surprise, but a little dismaying to find, a fortnight or so ago, that I had managed to eradicate most of the gains I made during 2010 when I was paying closer attention. I was still less bulky than at my worst, but it was, nonetheless a retrograde step.

This weekend I ventured onto the scales again to find that with relatively little sacrifice, I had managed to lose 8lbs putting back to where had been. I had guessed as much; I am now in that annoying belt stage where one notch is too tight to be entirely comfortable, the next one along too loose for confidence.

I have been aided in my attempts to shrink by the fact that the supply of unsolicited cakes and biscuits in the office has dried up. I am notoriously weak willed when faced by anything chocolaty or biscuity in the office, though over all, I am better when faced with cakes (though I really do like doughnuts and yum yums and had to maintain tight mental control a couple of days last week when someone brought supplies in twice). Annoyance with work matter and overall boredom lower my defences and I find it hard to resist.

My initial target remains modest: I just want to be able to button up my jacket comfortably. Once that is achieved, I shall set another target – successfully wear a jumper under the jacket, then be able to button the jacket over the jumper, that sort of thing. But let’s just get to the point where I can button the damned thing up over a tee shirt, shall we?

On the plus side, it already hangs much better than it did 3 or 4 years ago, when I wore it during our wander around London Zoo. It no longer looks obviously too small around where the waist ought to be.

I suppose that in the long term, I ought to aim for a silhouette that tapers in toward the waist rather than out. First things first.

Comments

[changeling72.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to lose weight too, largely by eating better.

[caddyman.livejournal.com]

I misread that as 'by eating batter' and my immediate thought was 'best of British with that!' :-)

Seriously though, that's what we're trying to do; smaller portions of healthier food and cut down on the booze and snacks, without loosing them entirely (otherwise madness will ensue!).

[w00hoo.livejournal.com]

I'd read 'butter' and also felt that a 'good luck' was in order.

There seems to be less of me since I started walking part of the way to work which was an unexpected (although shouldn't have been I suppose) but nice surprise.

[karinmollberg.livejournal.com]

Another one for "butter"! Quite the right way (eating better) if you ask me who prefers concavity to convexity but currently supplies the former due to overeating because of the rain. A reasonable excuse, I find.