Sizes and quantities
While Mick and I were travelling round the world, I lost very little weight but I certainly lost size: I had to keep altering my sturdy pair of travel trousers and I bought one or two pairs of lightweight trousers (which didn't last long) to increase my options. We did a lot of walking in that trip, quite often 7-8 km a day, but we also enjoyed a lot of lovely food, so I suppose that balanced out!
During the next 18 months or so, I started to follow a calorie-controlled diet and eventually lost around 12kg, which I have kept off. Then I hit the proverbial wall and stopped losing.
Lockdown provided the opportunity to look again at what I was eating. No meetings, no travelling, no visits with family or friends and, initially, no take-outs either. What I have been eating has almost all been under my control! So, after some thought, I went back to the diet. It hasn't been difficult. I was already used to it and I hardly ever feel hungry on it.
So far, I have barely lost a gramme! But what has been changing is my size. Most of my trousers now hang off me, even with a belt. The smaller ones I bought "just in case" as lockdown loomed are fine - for now. I'm doing some alterations, but only to make them the right length.
During the covid era, I have hardly needed to think about what I wear. The main criterion has been "Can I wear it to do gardening?" The iron has very rarely been used on any of them!
I have two main worries now. One is that I have been doing very little exercise, mainly because I have been rather depressed and have found it hard to focus. So if I do try harder, am I going to run out of clothes even faster?
The other is, what happens if life becomes more normal and I start having to go to events which require me to be dressed more smartly. Presumably, most of those clothes are now rather big on me....
During the next 18 months or so, I started to follow a calorie-controlled diet and eventually lost around 12kg, which I have kept off. Then I hit the proverbial wall and stopped losing.
Lockdown provided the opportunity to look again at what I was eating. No meetings, no travelling, no visits with family or friends and, initially, no take-outs either. What I have been eating has almost all been under my control! So, after some thought, I went back to the diet. It hasn't been difficult. I was already used to it and I hardly ever feel hungry on it.
So far, I have barely lost a gramme! But what has been changing is my size. Most of my trousers now hang off me, even with a belt. The smaller ones I bought "just in case" as lockdown loomed are fine - for now. I'm doing some alterations, but only to make them the right length.
During the covid era, I have hardly needed to think about what I wear. The main criterion has been "Can I wear it to do gardening?" The iron has very rarely been used on any of them!
I have two main worries now. One is that I have been doing very little exercise, mainly because I have been rather depressed and have found it hard to focus. So if I do try harder, am I going to run out of clothes even faster?
The other is, what happens if life becomes more normal and I start having to go to events which require me to be dressed more smartly. Presumably, most of those clothes are now rather big on me....