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Lyman · 07-26-07, 12:16 PM

Well it's been a long time since an update due to most of June being engulfed in ridiculous amounts of work and most of July seeing me in an internetless Laurentian forest, but I'm back in the flooded civilisation that is the UK and ready to become a shut-in again!
While my weight loss itself has slowed to a crawl again, I've found that my clothes get baggier and my belts demand extra holes punched into them periodically. Furthermore, I've gone from a US XL to a UK XL (for whatever reason XL is a smaller size in the UK) without the material clinging to my body and making me look like an oversized gastropod. I imagine this is due to more muscle being built up now that my activity levels are far higher. I've nearly lost all that pillowcaseyness to my upper arms and, while my thighs aren't all that 'mastered' there's definitely an increase in actual solid muscle beneath the remaining flab.
In an odd psychological thingamebob, I've found myself getting more self-conscious of my appearance as I incrementally slim down than I ever was when I was at my largest. My graduallly receding gut just seems to make my unsavoury conical man-boobs look bigger, and instead of unearthing a smouldering lothario beneath my head-fat I'm more and more concerned that my face will wind up gaunt and goofy-looking. Plus I recently saw some video footage of myself which was very disheartening:
That it's taken a year and a half of work to wind up still looking like this is quite sobering. A lot of words of congratulations from people I haven't seen in a while have perhaps gone to my head, and in a case of reverse-body dysmorphia I think I'd convinced myself I was far slimmer. Still, it's all fuel for the fire.
So all in all, that August deadline ain't gonna happen, but if I can show up to the wedding sporting a chin (singular) and a suit small enough so that it doesn't make me look like a hitman I'll be happy.
Am thinking of compiling some of my food 'recipes' and posting them up here at some point if they're of any interest
Good to be back
-L

07-26-07, 12:16 PM	#14 (permalink)
Lyman Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 59 Weight Statistics 01/20/2006 Start Date: 322 lb Start Weight: 206 lb Current Weight: 175 lb Goal Weight: -116 lb Weight Loss: 08/25/2007 Goal Date:	Re: So here we go... Well it's been a long time since an update due to most of June being engulfed in ridiculous amounts of work and most of July seeing me in an internetless Laurentian forest, but I'm back in the flooded civilisation that is the UK and ready to become a shut-in again! While my weight loss itself has slowed to a crawl again, I've found that my clothes get baggier and my belts demand extra holes punched into them periodically. Furthermore, I've gone from a US XL to a UK XL (for whatever reason XL is a smaller size in the UK) without the material clinging to my body and making me look like an oversized gastropod. I imagine this is due to more muscle being built up now that my activity levels are far higher. I've nearly lost all that pillowcaseyness to my upper arms and, while my thighs aren't all that 'mastered' there's definitely an increase in actual solid muscle beneath the remaining flab. In an odd psychological thingamebob, I've found myself getting more self-conscious of my appearance as I incrementally slim down than I ever was when I was at my largest. My graduallly receding gut just seems to make my unsavoury conical man-boobs look bigger, and instead of unearthing a smouldering lothario beneath my head-fat I'm more and more concerned that my face will wind up gaunt and goofy-looking. Plus I recently saw some video footage of myself which was very disheartening: That it's taken a year and a half of work to wind up still looking like this is quite sobering. A lot of words of congratulations from people I haven't seen in a while have perhaps gone to my head, and in a case of reverse-body dysmorphia I think I'd convinced myself I was far slimmer. Still, it's all fuel for the fire. So all in all, that August deadline ain't gonna happen, but if I can show up to the wedding sporting a chin (singular) and a suit small enough so that it doesn't make me look like a hitman I'll be happy. Am thinking of compiling some of my food 'recipes' and posting them up here at some point if they're of any interest Good to be back -L __________________