I was away on the long weekend so didn't post for a few days. However, I DID lose weight. OMG... I was not expecting anything good this week as I ate CRAP on the weekend. Not 100% crap as I brought my smoothie making equipment along, but crap as in packets of chips, fried chips, potato cakes, lollies... the sort of stuff that should prevent weight loss. So, this week I must commit 100% to 100% eating (Sat night is my High School Reunion, and even though I have lost weight since the start of the year and am no longer obese, I am still overweight... sad but true).
Well, I will not let my weight get me down, as I HAVE lost 8kg since the start of Feb. No, it's not an amazing weight loss. But it IS loss... and if I keep going the way I am, the weight will keep dropping off. I mean, it's not even 1kg a week, but if I continue to lose approximately 8kg every three months, by the start of August I'll be around 58kg and by the start of December I'll be 50kg, which is my initial goal. Beyond that, I can't say what I'll do ;) It depends on a couple of factors.
Okay, well for today due to the rain outside, I won't be going for a ride. This is fine as I am stuck doing this annoying work that I need to slog through! I have to do at least 5000 words today and send it in to get it approved. Blah. Boring! I don't like missing my exercise, but the weather isn't great for it, and as my eyes are still too poor to go anywhere without glasses, it's sort of difficult to function well in the rain!
Well, I am currently 1800 words down. When I hit the 2000 mark, I'll do my eye exercises, then it will be back to the grind! ARGH...not much fun!
I have read about the "loose skin" problem and ways of dealing with it without plastic surgery. Now, I've never been massively overweight, so I don't have a total body loose skin problem, BUT my belly skin has been loose and saggy since having kids. I have believed for a long time that even if I lost all my excess weight, I'd STILL have saggy skin. However, I have read something that suggests that as long as I lose ALL the excess fat, the skin will tighten up. Now, I don't know about this 100%, my belly has a LOT of stretchmarks which helps account for some of the issue, and I'm not sure that skin is as elastic as normal skin. Anyway, where am I going with this? I don't know if I will have to drop my fat loss further than what it is at 50kg in order to lose the fat I need to get rid of the saggy skin. I did read at one place that "people with less than 10% fat just don't have saggy skin", and I'm not sure I want to actually drop to 10% fat hehe. However, as a woman maybe I wouldn't have to. Still, I imagine that my fat will be closer to 20% when I'm 50kg. I have also been in the low 50s before and still had the saggy skin. So, I may have to drop lower to get rid of it! I am hoping, however, that if I were to put on fat again after losing it, that the saggy skin wouldn't happen, as the fat would re-pad in the correct area. If that makes sense?! As in, if I lose the fat and the skin tightens, and regain a bit of fat, it shouldn't immediately sag. There is the assumption here that when I was pregnant it was the fat cells that distended and ended up in the "wrong" place causing the sagging, and the skin sagged as a consequence of that.
Anyway, the question is an interesting one and I am hoping that I will get first hand evidence of whether it is true or not that when your fat drops below a certain point, all saggy skin vanishes. If not, I will just need to generate enough income for a tummy tuck lol.
Now, for the rest of the day... I have this stupid ebook thing to start writing :( I want to get at least 5000 words done, as the entire book will be 15,000 and it needs to be done by the end of the week. ARGH. I have sooo many other things I want to accomplish this week, and writing this ebook will get in the way of them severely. However, it's $150... problem is, I won't get PAID for another month probably... so I still need to generate some shorter term income. There are a couple of IM things I want to get stuck straight into. One involves article marketing, and the other involves setting up a main site with a network of supporting sites for the main site. So, it is kinda annoying to have a big job this week that will pay peanuts! Ahh well...I just have to get some REAL income generation happening so I can dump the poorly paid freelance work! 2c a word I can handle, but 1c a word is beyond ridiculous as payment. I am not sure why I got this job in the first place, except I was looking for some work! I don't know how or why people would do it for even less. Unless they're doing it for extra pocket money. Maybe as a high school student or even a uni student without a job it would have seemed like great money for me. Now, it kinda sucks.
Anyway, gotta go sort myself out and get ready. It's 9:30 and I'm still in my PJs! I've got to do some riding, some housework, and this stupid 5000 words, plus try and get a bit more work done on my website, and actually start setting up this new article marketing thingy.
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