Where I am at.. And what I have been up to..
First a Big hello and I am sorry I haven’t been around much. I have many things on my plate at the moment so I thought I would catch everyone up in one shot.
First things first. And yes I am going to brag about it because I can and I am totally happy about it all. I have lost almost a full 80 pounds since my spinal surgery. Now I know to many people that’s a lot of weight but not to me. I was extremely heavy. But I am back on track and almost totally compulsive about it once again. I am not sure if that is a good thing or not. I count calories fat carbs everything I intake is counted. I have it down to 1400 calories a day and I am gradually shaving it down to 1000 a day. Once I get to 1000 I will maintain it for the most allowed which is 30 days then add 100 each week till I get back to 1500 that means for everyone reading that I basically no longer eat candy cake cookies or anything sweet other than fruit. This also means that I eat meat once a day. And all my food is portion controlled to an extreme. That means that before I eat anything I measure it. And I know that’s over board but it works for me. For the record. I can now fit into Brand Lolita but will I go and get any hell no. Not now at least till I get my trip to London paid off. Yes I am worried that I am going to go back to being anorexic. But I am not sure if what I am doing is wrong. I once weighed 115 pounds and I am 5’10. And I know that then I was extremely underweight but I know I looked damn good. Pictures don’t lie. So when I want to sit down and pig out or eat super fatty fried food all I have to do is look at picture from last year and see how horrible I looked and that’s a pretty good deterrent. I took measurements lately. Old 52-48-54 New 40-38-44. I still have a good 80 pounds to go. But here is the kicker my goal measurements are my old thin ones. 36-22-38 I may be lucky and get back there. But we will see. I may not see it for another year but I know that it will be well worth the wait. I have plans on continuing my weight loss just to see how low I can go but that might be sort of overboard. I have to keep fighting the battle of the bulge as much as possible for the sake of my back mainly and maybe for my pride.
Second thing that I am doing is I am now doing about 500 full reps of ab work outs a day. As well as am mastering my balance ball. All I need to do is find a good Pilates place and I am all good. Much work harder. Get more results faster.
Ok now that I have gone off about weight and my personal drama about weight on to the fun stuff.
I am working on 3 sewing projects. One is a dress for my friends daughter’s wedding. One is a secret Lolita Project think Historical Lolita. And that’s all I am saying about that project and it is for Halloween. My Final project that I am writing up is a new 18th century dress inspired from one of the dresses from Marie Antoinette. I have fabrics and it will be self-trimmed. This will be a Robe a la Polonaise. But before I can even start the dress I have 3 underpinnings to finish. My Chemise is 3/4ths of the way finished. I need a new 18th century Corset. I also need some Pockets. Pockets shouldn’t take more than a day or two at most. I have linen and I am going to embroider my initials on it along with a Rose in Silk. It’s sort of my trademark. So that’s going to take me a day to do. And then the sewing will take a day to do. Plenty of sewing to do and time is not on my side but if I don’t finish it’s not a big deal basically I am sewing to sew. And besides I want to see pretties.
Questions Comments Concerns?
First things first. And yes I am going to brag about it because I can and I am totally happy about it all. I have lost almost a full 80 pounds since my spinal surgery. Now I know to many people that’s a lot of weight but not to me. I was extremely heavy. But I am back on track and almost totally compulsive about it once again. I am not sure if that is a good thing or not. I count calories fat carbs everything I intake is counted. I have it down to 1400 calories a day and I am gradually shaving it down to 1000 a day. Once I get to 1000 I will maintain it for the most allowed which is 30 days then add 100 each week till I get back to 1500 that means for everyone reading that I basically no longer eat candy cake cookies or anything sweet other than fruit. This also means that I eat meat once a day. And all my food is portion controlled to an extreme. That means that before I eat anything I measure it. And I know that’s over board but it works for me. For the record. I can now fit into Brand Lolita but will I go and get any hell no. Not now at least till I get my trip to London paid off. Yes I am worried that I am going to go back to being anorexic. But I am not sure if what I am doing is wrong. I once weighed 115 pounds and I am 5’10. And I know that then I was extremely underweight but I know I looked damn good. Pictures don’t lie. So when I want to sit down and pig out or eat super fatty fried food all I have to do is look at picture from last year and see how horrible I looked and that’s a pretty good deterrent. I took measurements lately. Old 52-48-54 New 40-38-44. I still have a good 80 pounds to go. But here is the kicker my goal measurements are my old thin ones. 36-22-38 I may be lucky and get back there. But we will see. I may not see it for another year but I know that it will be well worth the wait. I have plans on continuing my weight loss just to see how low I can go but that might be sort of overboard. I have to keep fighting the battle of the bulge as much as possible for the sake of my back mainly and maybe for my pride.
Second thing that I am doing is I am now doing about 500 full reps of ab work outs a day. As well as am mastering my balance ball. All I need to do is find a good Pilates place and I am all good. Much work harder. Get more results faster.
Ok now that I have gone off about weight and my personal drama about weight on to the fun stuff.
I am working on 3 sewing projects. One is a dress for my friends daughter’s wedding. One is a secret Lolita Project think Historical Lolita. And that’s all I am saying about that project and it is for Halloween. My Final project that I am writing up is a new 18th century dress inspired from one of the dresses from Marie Antoinette. I have fabrics and it will be self-trimmed. This will be a Robe a la Polonaise. But before I can even start the dress I have 3 underpinnings to finish. My Chemise is 3/4ths of the way finished. I need a new 18th century Corset. I also need some Pockets. Pockets shouldn’t take more than a day or two at most. I have linen and I am going to embroider my initials on it along with a Rose in Silk. It’s sort of my trademark. So that’s going to take me a day to do. And then the sewing will take a day to do. Plenty of sewing to do and time is not on my side but if I don’t finish it’s not a big deal basically I am sewing to sew. And besides I want to see pretties.
Questions Comments Concerns?