Knocking me out with those American thighs

[gwendally]

That's it, I need to lose weight.  I just realized that I do not have a single pair of shorts I can wear in public, and the two pairs of capris I can wear (having burst the seam in the third) are disturbingly tight, obviously because the fabric shrank in the drawer.  I went shopping yesterday with the thought of buying a fresh pair of capris

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[admnaismith]

Yeah, Nordictrack, even daily, isn't enough by itself. (sigh)

[_evalution]

ugh. i feel you. i tend to put on weight in my legs and thighs, and having not lost all the baby weight yet, have zero shorts and two pairs of capris to wear for the summer. luna is quite interested in the giant pool that opened next to her favorite park, and has been begging to go swimming constantly. there is no way my fat white legs are going anywhere near a bathing suit in their current state. got to seriously take action if i don't want to spend all summer sweltering in jeans and feeling as unattractive as i do uncomfortable.

[kuangning]

Y'know, it is utterly illogical and kind of sad that someone would feel the need to exercise down to a certain size before they ... go do another, better form of exercise. (And yet, it's so common...) Grab a swimsuit that fits and go swim. Anyone who's looking should be minding their own business instead, and you'll be out there actually getting the exercise you want instead of staying home and putting it off because you think you have to slog through something else as a prerequisite.

[_luaineach]

+1

Additionally, if "Luna" is a child, then it's monstrously sad that 'fat white legs' would be the bar to spending the summer in the pool with your child ... because this time goes past and never comes back and it's tragic to waste it due to appearance fear.

[gwendally]

Evalution just came out of a horrible marriage where her husband denigrated her for not being movie-star-anorexic. She's actually a beautiful woman who is so beaten down that she doesn't know it. :-(

She's healing. Let's not pounce on her.

[likethewatch]

Or you could get some dental work. I need a new belt.

[gwendally]

:-(

I hope your mouth gets better soon!

As it happens, I'm trying that method, too. I'm scheduled for a root canal on Wednesday.

[thatgirljj]

I feel ya. Oh how I feel ya. I need to somehow get my head back where it was the two years before I had Derek, when I was fit & slim and staying that way was fun and enjoyable. I at least have my husband on the wagon of eating non-fucktardedly (thank you south beach diet), so I need to just get myself in line and get back to the weight room already.

[gwendally]

I still look back with awe at how amazingly stupid I was to accept that I needed larger pants after pregnancy. It was such a discontinuity in my wardrobe that it sort of makes sense that I wouldn't be *zap* back into my pre-pregnancy clothes, but here's the really weird part: I KEPT having to buy larger clothes. It wasn't just that I entered pregnancy a size 14 and left it a size 22, I kept moving up through the years. How did I not think this was a problem? Did I think I needed larger clothes every six months like my children did? Why didn't this cause a WTF moment?

Never again. I will never blithely need a larger pant size again. OMG, I was under some sort of Stupid spell or something not to take a hint to look at my diet and exercising if I needed larger clothes. OMG, it's embarrassing.

[thatgirljj]

Yeah, I'm working hard to avoid that very drift. Shirts are always weird, and dresses are flexible, but pants don't lie.

[seidhr]

I'm with you. I've had to quit doing lower body work outs due to a knee issue (maybe my knees know I'm unhappy having to be at the club so much, so they're responding to it), which makes me lazy so I haven't done the upper body stuff in a couple weeks either.

May I suggest barley? I know that sounds weird, but I've been eating beef barley soup for the last week and a half. I never eat more than a pint at a time (4 cups a day max, plus a snack or two), and it keeps me full for hours (even after a shift, I'm still not hungry). I've noticed I've lost more fat on the barley thing than I did exercising 5 days a week for 6 weeks.

[gwendally]

All the barley I've got is pearlized, i.e., lacking in fiber. Are you eating something different

[seidhr]

Uhm... I don't know what kind of barley I have, because I don't speak Russian (I know that sounds weird, but the label is in Russian except the word "barley"). I've also heard of some people preparing it like risotto, though that takes a while

[_luaineach]

I find frozen fruit chunks -- particularly strawberry slices and grape halves -- to be a great "desert" or snack. Already low in carbs (depending on the fruit)/calories and because they are frozen you can't just chow them down so they are orally satisfying for a much longer time than munching fresh fruit is. And I make fruit protein popsicles: a couple of peaches (or watermelon or raspberries or whatever) in the cuisinart along with some water and a couple scoops of vanilla protein powder - into popsicle molds and magic high protein meals desert thingies that can be consumed in those moments when you are actually too lazy to even just make yourself a protein smoothy (which, I find, I have become all too often in the recent past).