fair, fat & forty - HELP!

Terrylw1

Blimey V Moneysaver - fair play if she's lost weight but at that height and weight she surely must be in the middle of losing more???

Twist n step machines work like rollerblading. They will work your legs, bum & abs. Any twisting motion forces your side ab muscles to contract to stabilize you. It's the same as doing crunches and twisting in the motion or at the top of the motion.

virgin_moneysaver

Terrylw1 wrote: »

Blimey V Moneysaver - fair play if she's lost weight but at that height and weight she surely must be in the middle of losing more???

Twist n step machines work like rollerblading. They will work your legs, bum & abs. Any twisting motion forces your side ab muscles to contract to stabilize you. It's the same as doing crunches and twisting in the motion or at the top of the motion.

thanx for the heads up on the twist & sculpt

my point about the lady, fair play to her on losing so far, but my point was I'm a stone lighter & 6" taller & I can't get nowhere near a size 12 - mind a pair of 36DD gets in the way - you know my point ladies, you find a nice shirt, it fits you across the shoulders & the waist but pulls across the buttons - & I've tried the advice with the empire line cut to emphasize the bust & minimize the hips - nice smock thingy from Marks & Sparks - I just looked 6 months pregnant

and my husband wonders why I hate clothes shopping & live in joggers when I'm not in work

Terrylw1

virgin_moneysaver wrote: »

thanx for the heads up on the twist & sculpt

my point about the lady, fair play to her on losing so far, but my point was I'm a stone lighter & 6" taller & I can't get nowhere near a size 12 - mind a pair of 36DD gets in the way - you know my point ladies, you find a nice shirt, it fits you across the shoulders & the waist but pulls across the buttons - & I've tried the advice with the empire line cut to emphasize the bust & minimize the hips - nice smock thingy from Marks & Sparks - I just looked 6 months pregnant

and my husband wonders why I hate clothes shopping & live in joggers when I'm not in work

Well, all I can say is that my GF is about 12 stone (5ft 8inches) and needs to lose 2 stone per her GP. She's closer to a size 16 so I really don't see how someone 5ft 2inches could possibly be a size 12 without a medieval contraption of some sort to get her in to it!!!

Clothes fit on some ways but she always has trouble with the shoulders. I'm a bloke and I can easily see that a lot of women's clothes makers go for a very typical fit which doesn't actually reflect the true bodyshape of a woman who is a couple of stone over where she wants to be.

Although, I don't always believe GP's since one told a previous GF that at 8.5 stone at a height of 5ft 7inches that she needed to lose 2 stone!!!

BTW - a tip. Work on your abs and get them toned up. Poor abs contribute to poor posture and make you slump forward as well as leave your stomach looser than normal. So, if you strengthen those muscles, you will get a posture correction and will feel less of a hang in that area. Always works for me if I've been off the weights for a few months, since as soon as I start again my stomach flattens without losing any fat in the area.

shoequeen

WEighs more than me - shorter than me - claiming to be a smaller dress sizxe than me. It always connfused & irritated me too. Until I figured it out. "Claiming"...!

It's a little white lie. And if they have one size 12 skirt that does up, even if they cant sit down - well good luck to em. I weaned myself off womens mags (saving £3 ish per week) and it stopped worrying me!

Depending on which bit of my body it covers, which shop it comes from & what the fit is I can be any dress size from an 8 to a 16. I doubt I'm alone.

If you're healthy dont worry about a bit of wobble in the right places. If you're unhealthy its not your dress size thats the problem. Tackle the hrealth & the clothes come next.

BigMummaF

Unfortunately I have always been over-weight, so have had nothing to 'get back to'. OK, not as bad as I am now, but the smallest I've been in adult life was after suffering from Jaundice for six months & living on nothing more than boiled chicken [retch!]& poached white fish.
I've never aspired to be athletic in any way, apart from a little badminton at school & dancing down the disco, always preferring my books for sciences & maths. Little thought has been put into how those of us who have a natural calling to intellectual over physical persuits can address the balance.
The family have generations of folk who would be classed "obese", and annoyingly always dismissed as an excuse. But seeing as it is in my genetic make-up isn't that like saying I can change my eye colour or facial features?

"Experts" are quick enough to tell us it's easy to lose excess baggage, but until they've lived a life-time in an obstinate body, how the hell do they know!

virgin_moneysaver

BTW - a tip. Work on your abs and get them toned up. Poor abs contribute to poor posture and make you slump forward as well as leave your stomach looser than normal. So, if you strengthen those muscles, you will get a posture correction and will feel less of a hang in that area. Always works for me if I've been off the weights for a few months, since as soon as I start again my stomach flattens without losing any fat in the area.


well I will try my twist & sculpt as an earlier poster said it could help the abs - my history with my belly though isn't due to excessive overeating but having had 2 ceaserian sections its a totally different shape to a fat belly

apparently there is such a thing now as a mummy tuck where they deliver the baby by c-section & give you a tummy tuck before stitching you up! - my uncle did say after the 2nd one they should have inserted a zip, just in case

HannaB

I have bought one of those "twist and step" thingys from Argos yesterday(about £35, cheapest I've found). I am just wondering how long it takes to see results? I'm trying to lose the spare tyre I've gained since I've quit smoking (c. 1 stone, eek!)

I do ten minutes three times a day at the moment.

Terrylw1

Well, with most exercise you see the real benefits 3-4 weeks in terms of fitness & cardiovascular health. Being an ex smoke, that will greatly help you lungs so well done.

I think if you are eating heathily as well and if you increase it as you feel more able, you should see results week on week. You need to be doing 20-30 mins 3-4 weeks but you shouldn't push it after the smoking until you feel ready as you will have a lesser lung capacity to a non smoker at the moment.

CLA is supposed to help smokers not put the weight on when they quit. CLA is also supposed to work well for the mid section.

That added weight will soon come off though.

Fizog

I suppose the size 12 shorter than you but weighing more could be like me a size 16 UK but oh size 12 US.....sizing.!!!
I must admit I always think no way when I see those women but saying 'Shona has lost 10 stone and now weighs 11 stone 7 and is a slim size 16' doesn't sound right does it. A bit like the tabloids the 'beautiful' Tara posh girl double barrelled surname I don't work but go to parties and spend Daddies money wouldn't look so good in print as the 'average looking bit dim' Tara.....