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Non Scale Victories

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Here's an odd one I've just noticed... I've always had just the one visible side vein in the crook of my left elbow, which was forever being stabbed by evil nurses and phlebotomists. :( Not only can I now see the right one, but the central (bigger) veins in both arms are visible! Blood donation and testing will be so much easier in future. :D
 
LeeLee said:
Here's an odd one I've just noticed... I've always had just the one visible side vein in the crook of my left elbow, which was forever being stabbed by evil nurses and phlebotomists. :( Not only can I now see the right one, but the central (bigger) veins in both arms are visible! Blood donation and testing will be so much easier in future. :D
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That is a strange one, but good! 🙂
 
Yay! I hope that happens to me too eventually! I have no visible veins, so whenever it comes to blood tests I have to point and go, really do it there and it'll be fine, it's where everyone does it :D Not sure what will happen if it ever gets a scar or too much use! :D
 
My daughter has just been to the charity shop and picked up a pair of Jasper Conran jeans for ?1. She has just rejoined Slimming World to lose her baby fat, which this time has accumulated around her hips, so the jeans will be baggy before long. I started to say I'll have them when they're too big... forgetting that right now I'm a stone LIGHTER than she is! I'll have to find my own bargain jeans.
 
LeeLee said:
My daughter has just been to the charity shop and picked up a pair of Jasper Conran jeans for ?1. She has just rejoined Slimming World to lose her baby fat, which this time has accumulated around her hips, so the jeans will be baggy before long. I started to say I'll have them when they're too big... forgetting that right now I'm a stone LIGHTER than she is! I'll have to find my own bargain jeans.
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Hope you can find some more appropriate to your new dimensions! 🙂
 
Things are definitely looking good Lee Lee 🙂
 
Well done LeeLee. Happy bargain hunting 🙂
 
Being able to cut, file and paint toenails... and breathe at the same time! :D
 
Ha ha, you two have put a smile on my face! 🙂
 
Just thought I'd share something my doctor said to me yesterday. On congratulating me for my weight loss and unexpectedly good HbA1c, the doc asked (jokingly) if I could tell all his overweight T2 patients that they too can lose weight instead of just giving excuses for why it's impossible. 🙂
 
LeeLee said:
Just thought I'd share something my doctor said to me yesterday. On congratulating me for my weight loss and unexpectedly good HbA1c, the doc asked (jokingly) if I could tell all his overweight T2 patients that they too can lose weight instead of just giving excuses for why it's impossible. 🙂
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What a lovely compliment. You should be very proud 🙂
 
The scales have been playing mind games with me for the last couple of weeks, with two unexpected (and undeserved) half-pound gains. However, when I did up my belt this morning, it settled nicely at a notch further than it has done for the last 4 months. 🙂
 
LeeLee said:
The scales have been playing mind games with me for the last couple of weeks, with two unexpected (and undeserved) half-pound gains. However, when I did up my belt this morning, it settled nicely at a notch further than it has done for the last 4 months. 🙂
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Good news LeeLee! 🙂 I have also noticed that my waist is more closely matching the stated circumference of my trousers! 🙂
 
That's good news you two! I'm afraid mine seems to be going the other way, but now I've finished at the shop and things are back to 'normal', whatever that is, I hope to get back on track before I loose it completely at Christmas!
 
Having to take the elastic in on my work trousers...again !

I can't see my weight loss really...but I know it's coming off as I'm tripping over my hems !!

HelenHanfe
 
HelenHanfe said:
Having to take the elastic in on my work trousers...again !

I can't see my weight loss really...but I know it's coming off as I'm tripping over my hems !!

HelenHanfe
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Great news Helen! 🙂 New wardrobe in the offing? 🙂
 
Well, Northerner, I'm on my way to a new-ish wardrobe - the various things I've grown out of, over the last few years !

I've resolutely decided not to spend any money on new clothes, all the while I have a cupboard full of ones I just don't fit in any more....

It's part of my 'goal' - if I continue with the weightloss, I hope to be wearing these things in 2014 🙂

Helen
 
Hopefully this counts.....after 3 months of testing - with readings in the 20's to start with - absolutely thrilled to get my first 5-something today !!

Am now registering 6 out of 6 readings, under 10, in a day - and if over, I know what's caused it....

So excited to get a 5 ! Hopefully the first of many.... !

HelenHanfe
 
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