Results are in..well done everyone! I hope you are proud of the results you have achieved so far. As I said yesterday, it is not just your weight, measurements and body composition which are important factors in measuring your success, but also your results in how you are thinking and feeling now. When I first meet with someone interested in working with me to lose weight I ask them why they want to lose weight. The usual answer is "to be happy". My question is "does that mean that you think all slimmer people are happy?" I have met many people who have lost a lot of weight and really seem no happier than before. Before they were worrying about how, and if, they would lose weight, now they are worrying about how, and if, they can keep it off!
Today I invite you to share with us your results and your present happiness!!
"Why "weight" to be happy when you can choose to be happy today?!"
Sue x
Before and after photos:
APPLE - 16 WEEKS
PEAR -16 WEEKS
JAYNE - 9 WEEKS
MARA - 9 WEEKS
RESULTS to be added
DUSTY - 4 WEEKS
MANDY - 4 WEEKS
RESULTS TO BE ADDED
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Here are my 16 week results:
Upper Arm -5cm
Chest -12cm
Stomach -13cm
Hips -8cm
Upper Thigh -5.5cm
Calf -1.5cm
Start Weight 192lb
Weight after 16 weeks 167lb
Total weight loss -25lb
I'm thrilled with these results, especially as a slow steady weight loss so hopefully more likely to stay off! What can I say except I feel great for it. Loads more energy and I feel so much lighter and brighter!! Long may it continue. I still feel I have a long way to go but I'm well into my journey now and feel very comfortable on it.
Sue, to answer your question about happiness...
I have always found it interesting that people associate being thin with being happy. What is it about being thin that will make them happy? Does it come down to the perception that to be in control of our lives, to be attractive, to be loved, to be accepted we must be thin? If so then you could read that by being overweight we are not in control, not attractive, not loved and not accepted.
Unfortunately I do think the media is a lot to blame for this. They create an 'ideal' body shape and in doing so reject all others as unacceptable. We know of course that many celebrities who are thin, famous, beautiful, rich and seemingly have it 'all' are not happy. So why bother working hard to lose weight if it's not going to make us happy?
Well, I think we miss the point here. What does happiness actually mean to all of us? What makes us happy? Who can make us happy? Where does our happiness come from? From within. From nowhere and noone else.
Once we learn to accept ourselves, find ourselves attractive, love ourselves and realise that WE are in control of all this - only then can we understand true happiness.
So why bother to lose weight, why bother to be healthy if happiness does not come from being thin? Well because part of loving ourselves is nuturing ourselves. Eating the right foods, giving our body the activity it needs. If we love ourselves enough we will care about all this. It's our choice.
So I choose now to accept myself, to find myself attractive, to love and nurture myself and I take full responsibilty for this. And does this make me happy? Oh yeah!!!!
Here are my 9 week results
Upper arm -1.5cms
Chest -4cms
Stomach -2cms
Hips -2cms
Upper thigh -3cms
Calf -0.5cm
Total weight loss 8lbs
I have gained 2lbs, however, lost fat and cms. My flu gave me false results, however I acknowledge that I have drunk alcohol and stepped off the plan at times and not done 3 sessions each week, however my mindset is different and I am fitter and stronger.
I am feeling happier and different and know the feeling of now loving and nurturing myself.
I have set myself a personal goal for the next 4 weeks and it's not what is on the scales.
Food choices today
muesli with yogurt soya milk pear
2 felafal
1 Mediterranean burger rocket tomato olives lentil sprouts
2 Pieces fruit cake
Thai green curry and rice, spinach
I love and agree with your comments about happiness, Apple, thank you!
Interesting that both you and Jayne have not recorded your changes in body fat percentage, which is for me, the most important result! Perhaps this shows how much importance we are still putting on our weight even though we know that it is not a true indication of our results or perhaps our health and fitness. For me, I will consider all of you are a healthy "weight" when your body fat percentage is under 30 percent as you will no longer be considered obese! So please do focus on reducing your body fat percentage, the lower your body fat percentage, the more efficient your body is at burning body fat and the easier it will be to keep it from coming back!! x
So sorry Sue! I completely forgot BMI and I expect Jayne just followed my lead!!
Here's mine....
BMI at start : 30.9
BMI now : 26.9
Total change -4
I'm thrilled with this overall but know that this month my BMI did not change. I am certain that this was down to me not doing so much of the fat burning exercises that I had been doing previously. I still lost weight this month but now need to refocus my exercise to ensure that the weight I lose from now on is fat, not muscle.
Thanks for adding your BMI Apple. This is another measurement that can be taken into consideration as regards to a measurement of obesity but again, it is not always a true reflection of body fat. It is worked out by your weight and height and so does not take into account the weight of someones lean tissue, therefore someone who may be very lean and muscular might weigh heavy and so come out as obese on the BMI scale.
The body fat percentage I use it calcualted with the body composition analysis machine I use and gives a much more accurate picture of weight, body fat, lean tissue and water in the body.
Here go for my results after 1 month of FS:
I have gone from 106.2 Fat Weight to 102.3
Lean Body weight from 124.9 to 120.3
So a loss of both fat and muscle in an even balance.
I have lost 8.6 pounds. Happy as had a cream tea and not always on track!
The more noticeable measurements are:
Upper Thigh: -2 cms
Navel: -4 (oh yeay!)
Hips: -1.5
Calf: -1
Centre of chest (on bust line): -2.5
Under Bust Line: -3
Boobs and belly have lost cms, which I am really pleased about since they are the two biggest areas!! Will be nice to have a waist and bust size that aren't the upper end of every scale/sizing system!!
BMI from 37.2 to 35.9. Yehar!!
Thank you to Sue for her help, assistance, encouragement and 'get back on track' comments.
FSers I will see you in May for some classes. Btwn Sue being on hols and myself, I am going it alone in May. Need to see if I can focus and refer to Sue in June for a exercise mot!
Interesting comments about the if I am slim I must be happy.
I have been a hippo (big, camouflaged and I have stuck in the mud about my reflection, health and how I need to motivate myself!) for a while and now I am beginning to feel the stages of wanting to be like a gazelle (stream lined and with a spring in my step!). Because being big and lazy has meant I felt ungainly and unhappy, well the opposite - slim and spritely must therefore make me happy. Also having been slim, I know that I was happier being a standard size/weight. As humans we strive to fit in, having one less thing to worry about (size) and one less thing to make me stand out/alienate myself allows me to focus on other areas in my life.
For me now, it's maybe not so much about being slim, it's about feeling healther (and then you get slimmer as a by product!).
I am still well padded, but what is now making me happier is the fact that I am getting to grips with exercise! I am challenging myself in a variety of healthier ways, from food to going and doing some exercise. I hated exercise and haven't played sport since team games at Uni! Well I am learning to do it without a team and to do it for me! Like Jayne, with her challenge for this month mine also isn't weight - it's getting to grips with exercise!!
Oh Dusty, well done!! I'm so proud of your achievements so far and as you say this is all about feeling healthier and the weightloss is a by product. This is where so many other 'diets' get it wrong.
Wow Jayne! You seem to have really cracked it with changing the way you feel towards yourself - thats the really hard bit and the rest will come!
Mara, Pear and Mandy I know your results will be good too and I think we can all celebrate the fact that we are all heading in the right direction.
Best of luck everyone for this coming few weeks. Let's see how we get on managing ourselves! Whatever happens, I know we are all going to learn a lot!!
PEARS 16 WEEK RESULTS!
Weight -12.3lb
Body fat -5%
BMI -3
Upper arm -1cm
Chest -3.5cm
Navel -6.5cm
Hip -4cm
Upper thigh ?
Calf -1cm
Well done gorgeous Pear!!! You are looking so fab! Can't wait to see you in the gym again soon xxx
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