Down another five lbs!
My pants won’t stay up. I dug out the next size down from the bags of clothes I have stashed away and found three pairs of jeans I must have bought about three years ago when I worked downtown and hadn’t eaten my way up past 200 lbs yet. They fit, but they stretch out after little while and then won’t stay up. This droopy drawer syndrome is part of having a too-fat tummy, as the thing pushes down as hard as I pull up.
My tummy is MUCH SMALLER than it was, but it is still a force to be reckoned with as far as clothing goes. Clothes just don’t fit well over fat. Ever. Jeans are designed to sit on the hips, but they can’t with this muffin spud gut spare tire pushing down on them. I will have to get back to the size 8-10 I should be to not have this stomach pooch problem I guess. My arms are smaller. All of me is smaller now, like the air is slowly being let out of a balloon. And I can wear bras again that have languished in the underwear drawer for at least three years!
I found a Facebook group for ADF, comprised of people from the UK and a few of us Americans. Everyone on the page is on a different fasting regimen and at different stages. They talk about new books about ADF coming out, and I’m finding that ADF is all over the map. I am sticking to my 3/4 as they call it, fasting three days and eating four days each week. I go by the day of the week, and marvel at some of these people that truly go every other day on their 3/4 plan. I couldn’t do that. I have to be able to eat on Fridays and Saturdays if I’m to have any semblance of a social life. And the Americans are debating what to do for the upcoming Holidays.
I find it inspiring to read how ADF has got several of these people down to and even below their goal weight! One guy has lost almost 300 lbs! (He uses the term “stones” because he’s a Brit, but I figured it out. He must have been HUGE and destined to be buried in a piano case until he tried ADF. Now he’s in maintenance mode a tad below his goal weight, fasting only two days a week. I can’t wait to reach goal and start modifying the regimen to maintain. The leaner and lighter I am, the longer I’ll live. Fat predisposes me to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, lung ailments, and just looking and feeling terrible. It also makes certain clothes never fit right, causing the tug of war with bras, jeans, swimsuits, and anything else that’s form fitting. Thank heavens for tee shirts, skirts,, and loose pants!
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