It's really great how this sort of support is helping us with our health in general.
Sharon/LDM, if you can do some water exercises during difficult child's swim class, you will still get a lot of benefit. And 35.8 down - that's pounds, I take it? That's really good.
Sharon/WO, it's very difficult to stick to a diet when you have to resort to fast food. Just remember that it's summer and you CAN make do with fresh fruit & vegetables instead of buying a burger or a pizza. It's also cheaper, to make your own fresh salad on the road than to buy fat-laden, salt-laden, carb-laden junk. And don't worry too much about a big breakfast - it's a lot easier to exercise off what you eat in the morning.
Kate, I hope the holiday is healthy for you with the exercises and the fresh seafood. Have you tried steamed teriyaki fish? Very easy to do. PM if you want the recipe.
1DAAT, even maintaining a weight can be a triumph in itself.
And for exercise - I still swear by Wii Fit. WE LOVE IT!! With my torn muscle now much better, I can do step aerobics again.
I'm measuring the time on my diet by the pills I take each day. Each pack has 30 pills and I'm now halfway through the fifth pack. That means I have six weeks to go for a total of six months on this. From what I read, these pills only work for about 6-12 months at most. Then you gain back some of the weight you lost, but by no means all or even most. And for the pills to work, you HAVE to diet as well.
So that means I've been on this diet for 20 weeks now. I started on 97 Kg by both my scales at home and the doctor's scales. I would have said, had I been asked, that my weight was 95 Kg. The 97 Kg was a bit of a surprise to me but I did double-check at home, naked in the morning on my bathroom scales.
This morning on my scales I weighed 81 Kg. Last week on the doctors scales (clothed) I weighed 80.5 Kg. I would love to get below 80 Kg. I REALLY would love to get down to 75 Kg or lower, but as the weight loss seems to have tapered off almost to a halt, I doubt I'll get much below 80 Kg, if that. Not in six weeks.
Mind you, I'm happy to be feeling a lot better and looking a lot better. It's been years since I bought clothes from off the rack in the main fashion shops. I've been restricted to the maternity sections, or the specialty fat shops. Mind you, at the fat shops I've been the smallest size there, but it's still been a problem trying to look good.
Last week easy child 2/difficult child 2 nagged me into going into one of those teen fashion stores and trying on a jacket. She was cross with me for having a figure at last, but still wearing my shapeless bomber jacket. So I bought a warm cardigan which was fitted nicely to my waist. It looks good! And I bought it off the rack! And it wasn't the largest size in the store!
I keep getting new clothes (not "new" new, but mostly second-hand new) and rapidly shrinking to the point that they don't fit.
At difficult child 3's drama class about three weeks ago I was given some skirts. They were from one of difficult child 3's classmates, a fifteen-year-old girl with Downs Syndrome. That makes the skirts hand-me-ups, I guess. And I wore one of those skirts again yesterday (I've worn them a lot over the last few weeks) and found it kept slipping round my waist. It is now too loose! I won't buy more stuff, can't afford it. But I WILL take the skirt in. With a longer stitch of course, so if/when I gain weight, I can let it out again.
Six weeks to do. The downhill run. Whatever I lose from here will probably go back on, but if I can stop my weight going too far above 80 Kg, I will be very happy. And so will my doctors, I think.
Marg