General Chat

When Fred came out of hospital and the stress was huge, I remember saying to the doctor that I knew I was going to go up a size in jeans, and I did. That was a size up from the one I had worn for twenty-odd years. As I got used to what I was dealing with, I was back wearing my usual size and, when he died, I bought two more pairs with the insurance money.

These two pairs have become pretty threadbare and I have been hoisting them for a long time but I don't go out much so that didn't matter.

With the sales being on, I thought i might buy some a size smaller but they fell down as well and I was not going to buy hoisters so I went down again and, blow me down, they slipped down too so I now have a pair a size smaller than I was wearing forty years ago, although there was no Lycra in jeans then.

Don't get the idea that I have been dieting and exercising because I haven't. I am not ill but I do feel I am vindicated in my long held belief that it was strss making me fat.

Since my OH went into hospital and then sadly died I have put on four pounds that is in three and a half months. Stress and eating too much chocolate. (And goodness knowS what it has done to my blood sugar.

But great to have lost weight without really trying well done.

I lost close to 25lbs in between July 2019 and July 2020 ..... all I did was start eating gluten-free bread, and more lactose free cheese and canned tuna, instead of meat

I didn't intend to lose weight, just to feel better without gluten and not get sick with lactose ....................... but the bread slices were about 1/3 to 1/2 the size of the wheat bread slices ............

so I was actually eating less, by accident!

I have since stayed more-or-less stable ..... which is good because maybe the doctor won't remember next time I see him face-to-face that he was thinking I might need to go for tests "in case ....." :-0

That last time was in January 2020, except for my flu shot. when they only did that.

I appear to have lost a stone in 6 weeks :-S

Possibly due to moving - with 2 weeks notice - and going up and down the stairs at my last place, moving stuff about, far too many times.

I noticed it when I only had to undo the button on my jeans, and not the zip, to take my jeans off, so found my scales, and had a weigh-in!

I'm now thinking of all those clothes I threw out, believing I'd never fit into them again :-(

I've always struggled to put on weight. All the years my children were young I consistantly weighed 7st 2lbs. I would always wear a cardigan, even on the hottest day, because I was so embarrassed by my skinny arms. For the past few years I weighed spot on 11 stone which I was happy with. After going into hospital last July I lost 1 stone, but now I'm 10st 7lbs , so it's slowly going back on again. My trouble is that when I'm stressed or worried I just can't eat. My throat just seems to "close up".

Kay, I too sort of struggled to put on weight. As a child I hardly ate anything I was under 7 stone when I had my first child, in my mid 20's.
I now happily eat 3 meals a day
Over the years, I've I realised, I actually put on just under stone a decade!
However, I wasn't happy at the thought of being 11stone, and overweight (for shorthouse me) in my 70's, so the weight loss is very welcome :-D

I was quite surprised because I don't ever weigh and have told my doctor I have no intention of getting into that frame of mind.

Don't even look in the mirror much, apart from when I walk past the one in the front room and did think I looked a bit different but didn't think much about it.

A for the hoisting up, that was, I thought, just for an inch or so. Certainly would never have bothered with the intermediate sizes had I known which one I needed now.

Am envious cos I have put on weight being In lockdown

Not eaten extras but too much sitting around hasn’t consumed the calories

Plus too have taken too much rose wine ! :-(

Don't suppose I would have noticed.

All the time I could get my jeans done up, then all was well.

Had the big ones not become a bit threadbare, I should have just carried on wearing and hoisting, although, going upstairs was getting a bit dodgy because I was treading on them.

Maggiewinchester, I'm pretty sure it must have been the exercise involved in your house move that made you lose weight. Still, as long as you're happy with the weight you are now that's all that matters. :-)

Weirdly, Kay, my diverticular disease symptoms have lessened, and the bloating I had (because of the disease) has gone down! I now have a waist :-D

Also, about a month before I moved, George (cat) acquired a very bloated tummy, and would have episodes of wheezing. He's 14, and initially I thought it was age, but also wormed him - though he had no signs of worms. This did nothing.

I was contemplating taking him to the vet, when we got the call to move.
Since moving here, he's stopped wheezing, and the bloating has gone.
He (and Betty) are eating a lot - but, apparently, it's not unusual in elderly cats - they need extra energy - which they've got, as is evident by my avatar of 14 year old Betty! :-D

Perhaps we'd become allergic to the old house (and the neighbours, on one side) :-)

Although the avatar is tiny I guessed it might be one of your cats. He's certainly very agile, bless him.

I'm really pleased you found your waist in the house move!! ;-)