A new start.
Here I am, 18 months after my hip replacement operation. I’m about 95% back to full strength and feel that the time is right to set about losing the remainder of my excess weight.
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Tag: 100lbs
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Paleo Weight-loss: Back to Basics
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How to lose 100lbs – going through a rocky patch
Does my bum look big in this? (such an odd shaped shadow). The sky was blue, the sun was warm, but when we got to the beach the wind was bitterly ice cold so I was glad of the old fleece jacket I keep in the car for such occasions. It’s only four sizes too big for me now!
Now, getting to the point of this post – do you remember my “Accountability” blog post? Well things didn’t go quite as planned. I enthusiastically started following my new exercise plan, only to hit a brick wall when I had to face up to the fact that my pain isn’t something that I can program into my life. It is too varied, too unpredictable, and sometimes much more painful and disabling than I allow myself to believe (or pamper to).
Added to that, life can just be downright unpredictable, you might have visitors to stay, or maybe you fall and hurt yourself… maybe you get a cold bug and just want to sleep all day. So, the last few weeks haven’t been easy.
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How to lose 100lbs – Accountability
I am going to start the habit of accountability here on the blog. Sometimes (like today) this will take up a whole blog post but, because I don’t want it to get too tedious, sometimes I will just add an ‘update’ paragraph or two at the end of other posts. -
How to lose 100lbs – part 2
When I first had the idea to start this blog I expected to write a lot about my weight-loss process. I thought that I would tell you the week by week story, so that you could follow along as it happened.
Apparently when you write a weight loss diary you need to tell your readers about all the successes and all the failures, however losing weight this way has been incredibly straightforward and uneventful for me. It hasn’t been anything like the roller coaster experience I have come to expect of a calorie counting diet. My family have simply changed our diet to one that is based on Paleo principles. That is all, it doesn’t even feel like dieting, yet the weight loss has happened anyway. All 70lbs of it so far!
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How to lose 100lbs
My Story – the beginning
Like many weight loss stories, mine is a story of many ‘ups’ and several ‘downs’. I struggled with my weight as a teenager, got it under control when at university… slipped a little… sorted myself out again, and then succeeded in getting down to a UK size 10/12 by the time I was married. Amazingly I returned to that size after the birth of my first child. However, two children later I measured as a UK size 18 and I haven’t measured less than a 18 since then – and that was 20 years ago.
The last 10 years have been a real struggle. Once the children got beyond the age where I was literally running around after them, I gradually began to put on weight. I wasn’t particularly overeating and I was still fit and reasonably active, but I started getting heavier anyway.
Then, about three years ago, I fell really badly down some stone steps and hurt my hip and back. It became very painful to move and since then I have only been able to walk for a short distance at a time.
Now I was moving even less. Before I knew it, if I wanted to get back to that size 10/12 weight, I would need to lose 100lbs.