Body Shape 1

I probably could have said that yesterday was a “catch” but I didn’t move except to walk from the car to the grocery store.  I did park at the furthest space from the doors but I didn’t quite manage to work up a sweat by the time I got to potatoes.  Which I suppose I should count as a bonus.

As for food, it was easy because I’d cooked the night before.  (Every once in a little wee while I manage to get organised.)  It was hard because I wanted more.  Not more of a particular anything – just more.  It’s that time of night when the Man is out of town and I know I can eat whatever I want and no one will ever know.  Except me.  And you if I choose to be honest.

But here’s the big new:  I got out the tape measure.

My weight is pretty steady these days and I think in terms of a handful of pounds to my goal.  But I feel “squidgy” from lack of exercise and wanted to know why.

After almost 3 months away from the gym and depending only on walking and a bit of running, the change is as follows:

• Bust: was 38 – now 39.5
• Waist: was 32.4 – now 34
• Hips: was 39 – still 39

The Inverted Triangle Returns!

So it’s back to the gym three times per week. That’s all it takes to change the shape of my upper body and it’s worth it.  (Cue fantasy of my own Concept2 rower- not outrageous but would need a new house to accommodate.)

The miraculous element of all of this is that I don’t feel like a failure, or like eating ice-cream, or like crying into my morning coffee as I write (all things I may have done in my food-insanity past).  Instead, I just feel like going to the gym.  Which is where I’m headed now.  Interesting.