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Boobage!
20 Apr 2016 92 Comments
in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Boobage, Weight Loss
I am seriously shocked!
Got on the scales, (never a good thing!) to see what the damage was. I have purposely been avoiding them because I knew that the number I saw on them was never going to please.
The mummy tummy, well, that has become a good excuse for what is really not doing more exercise, and for slipping the extra biscuit or 10 into my snacking schedule!
And I am ashamed to say that we have succumbed to rather a lot of takeaways in the last couple of months since the in-laws were away.
Struggling to fit into my Indian outfits the other days was embarrassing enough, but the icing on the cake was Monday evening. My in-laws flew back on the weekend, and mum in law had unpacked her cases. In there were 5 beautiful new outfits for me!
Really gorgeous ones, ideal for the family wedding we have in a month.
Only they didn’t fit. Not one of them!
Not one of them!
It was the dreaded boobage area again!
The tailor has my old measurements there, and I had said to her to not bother getting clothes this time as I have too many anyway, but the horror on my face must have been apparent as she told me she had requested the guy to take the clothes seams IN!
Wow! Mum must see me with really slimming rose tinted glasses!
Anyway, lucky for me, as these have been taken in, that can be reversed, and they can be let out again too.
But that was the straw that broke the camel’s back.
I decided I need to diet, lose weight, do something, as this was ridiculous!
At the moment, I weigh more than I have ever weighed in my life, apart from when I was pregnant, and even then I wasn’t much more than I am right now! How bad is that!
I loaded my shopping trolley with fruit and veg, and salad, and dutifully informed Hubby Dearest that takeaway was not on the menu now!
Smoothies for breakfast, not as much tea, more water, salads at lunch, a balanced dinner… that is what I am doing now.
But can someone please inform my inner sweet-toothed fattie (who is more the outer me at the moment) that I cannot get cravings at 9pm, then demolish ice creams or chocolates!
My aim is 10 stone… It won’t be a fast process by any means… I need to find time, and energy, in the day to exercise too!
Wish me luck please!
FLASH IN A FLASH – WRITESPIRATION #87
20 Apr 2016 10 Comments
in Challenges, Fiction, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: #Writespiration, Armour, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Flash Fiction, Sacha Black
I have been eagerly awaiting Sacha’s next prompt! I enjoy her various twists in her writing games that she challenges us to!
The challenge?
Get a timer, set it for 120 seconds and when and ONLY when you are ready to do the challenge, scroll to the very end of the post to see the one word prompt. Write hard and fast until your time is up.
Well, I opened the email for the post at work, and had to impatiently wait until now to actually reveal the prompt!
Then I obediently opened a word doc, set my timer and did the big reveal!
I shall give you my entry first, before the prompt word though!
Warpaint
Slowly she applied it, layer after layer.
The concealer and foundation, then the eyes.
Eyebrows painted on.
Cheekbones highlit and honed to perfection, and a pout to match.
Looking in the mirror, she admired her warpaint, an armour of sorts.
Enough to shield her from the battles she used to face, when people stared at her in horror…
The prompt word was
Armour.
And that was in 120 seconds, honest!!!!! (Or maybe 125…!)
I Have NOTHING To Wear!
16 Apr 2016 105 Comments
in Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Big Boobs, Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, No Clothes
Seriously! I have nothing that fits in my Indian clothes collection!
Not in my overcrowded cupboard….
Or even in my under-bed storage!
I have many outfits, collected over the years, in varying sizes as, like most women, my weight has fluctuated over the years. But today, icing on the cake time!
My bust is too big!
Honestly, every top I put on, I felt like I couldn’t breathe, as this expanse of bosom was squished down into too tight fabric!
Yes, so I know I put on a little weigh, but such an increase in the boobage department!?!
I finally found one outfit to wear today, to our Nagar Kirtan parade, celebrating Vaisakhi (a post about last years is here) but it was rather thin, so even with a cardigan, and shawl, I was freezing!
I know many women would be happy to see the increase, but it’s not always convenient, and I love my old clothes too much!
( And no, no photos of the evidence, I was way too embarrassed!)
Anyone know of any reduction exercises? “I must, I must decrease my bust!”
And a little haiku to highlight my issues!
Outfits spilling out
From my bottomless closet
Still, nothing to wear!Ritu 2016
SoCS April 16/16 – No.
16 Apr 2016 30 Comments
in Challenges, Thoughts Opinions & Memories Tags: Blog, Blog Post, Blogger, Blogging, Linda Hill, no, SoSC
For Linda’s prompt, click here.
Your Friday prompt for Stream of Consciousness Saturday is: “no.” Try to think of a specific number, as “no.” is often used as an abbreviation for “number,” and write about it. Or, use it as a word. Have fun!
Lucky No…
My lucky number
No. 7
Or is it No. 3?
Possibly 8, 20, 29…
The list goes on…
Dates that are important to me become my lucky numbers.
No. 13 – now, isn’t that meant to be unlucky? Even that I find luck in, as our festival of Vaisakhi falls on 13th April!
In fact I need to get ready now, we have a huge procession and fair today to celebrate! The whole if our town comes out, no mater what colour or creed, to celebrate with us!
Really, if I sat down and thought about it, I could probably find ‘luck’ in almost every number!
What is your Lucky No.?
