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First my 9 year old son asked me if I'd "got taller or something". I hadn't, obviously!
Then I met a friend who wanted to know what I'd done with my hair 'cos I looked great. I hadn't done a thing.
Then another friend started madly admiring a coat I know she has seen me wear before - telling me how much it suited me and how slimming it was!! No, it's just that the buttons close without a stretch now!
I've lost 21lbs in 4 weeks. I threw out a pair of jeans to-day cos they are way too big and I will NEVER, EVER need them again! I'm walking every evening and loving it, rather than dreading even walking around town. My skinny ankles have reappeared and I've dropped a shoe size. I've tightened my watch strap a notch - and it's still loose!
I have eaten better and more delciious food in the last month than at any time I can remember, including twice eating out in good (aka very tempting) restaurants and keeping on plan - and I'm still only on the first rung of OWL.
I'm so thrilled with all of this that I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I feel like I have emerged from a cloud into wonderful clear light.
I want to thank all of you here - I KNOW with certainty that without checking in here every day and reading, reading, reading, it would have been much harder and less smooth a ride. I am actually looking forward to the rest of the journey, not dreading it as I always was with low fat diets.
I feel incredibly secure in the knowledge that when the going gets tough, when it's less easy than it has been so far there is a place I can come where people have been there and seen that and are generous enough to continue sharing their knowledge and experience.
Thank you all SO much for being here.
Then I met a friend who wanted to know what I'd done with my hair 'cos I looked great. I hadn't done a thing.
Then another friend started madly admiring a coat I know she has seen me wear before - telling me how much it suited me and how slimming it was!! No, it's just that the buttons close without a stretch now!
I've lost 21lbs in 4 weeks. I threw out a pair of jeans to-day cos they are way too big and I will NEVER, EVER need them again! I'm walking every evening and loving it, rather than dreading even walking around town. My skinny ankles have reappeared and I've dropped a shoe size. I've tightened my watch strap a notch - and it's still loose!
I have eaten better and more delciious food in the last month than at any time I can remember, including twice eating out in good (aka very tempting) restaurants and keeping on plan - and I'm still only on the first rung of OWL.
I'm so thrilled with all of this that I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I feel like I have emerged from a cloud into wonderful clear light.
I want to thank all of you here - I KNOW with certainty that without checking in here every day and reading, reading, reading, it would have been much harder and less smooth a ride. I am actually looking forward to the rest of the journey, not dreading it as I always was with low fat diets.
I feel incredibly secure in the knowledge that when the going gets tough, when it's less easy than it has been so far there is a place I can come where people have been there and seen that and are generous enough to continue sharing their knowledge and experience.
Thank you all SO much for being here.
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