Losing it all right except where I want it to
By suspenseful
@suspenseful (40192)
Canada
December 23, 2009 8:08pm CST
I bought my first pair of jeans, and now it is getting loser and loser. So I thinks to myself, well maybe my waist is finally coming down. After all, I heard that one of the danger signs that heralds diabetes (my father had is) is a large waist and you know what the health people say,"lose that weight and your problem will be over," so I gets on the scale and now it is after supper and of course, I am a little under 195 lb, but that does not matter since I usually gain about 5 lb during the day. So I measure my waist and it is 38 and a half inches but my hips have gone down to 46 and a half inches from 49 inches. Thus whereas I lost just one and a half inches off my waist, I lost a whole three inches from my hips.
What is going on here? True my poundage is decreasing, but in the wrong places and the way I am going when I get my waist down to 34 i will look like a post and the only thing that will distinguish me from a guy is that I do not have a beard and I have an ample bosom.
And they say just lose some weight, and your waist will be below 35 inches and your fear of diabetes will be gone forever. Oh and I am also eating healthy.
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8 responses
@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
24 Dec 09
Ya know, about 23 yrs ago I lost 40 lbs. I lost the weight from my knees to my waist - just that way - I had hoped to lose some in the chest too, but no such luck!
I think you may find that you are losing that way too - and don't despair, that you are going to lose the middle too - hips are in a large way determined by the shape of the bones, lose the padding, but you will retain the "shape" if you exercise...
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
I like my top part the way it is, but it is the waist that matters if you have diabetes in your history. And since I am on the borderline, I want to lose it there.
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@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
24 Dec 09
hi suspenseful you go girl, you are doing it right and it will be so much easier to control it if you do become completely diabetic. for a lot of people you will lose fat off your hips quicker than your waist but it will come off. I applaud you for your persistence and hard work. You may well avoid diabetes
yet. Do not worry about the way it comes off as it will come off your waist eventually. my gosh I am 107 and would love to get down even to 195 so you are on your way, and I am glad for you
as its not easy but its so worthwhile. Tell me how you did as thats my one and only resolution.this year I will lose fifty pounds and I mean to do it too.
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
I did at chromium to my diet. I found that is not in the beef you get at the supermarkets, but in the beef that is range fed. Now if I had gotten organic meat, that would have helped, but the chromium helped. Only you have to have about 500 mg a day for it to work. So it was something lacking in my diet, plus cutting down on bananas,corn, and stuff with white flour plus getting rid of artificial trans fats, making sure that there is no corn syrup in anything, etc. I can tell you that the chromium was the last help and the trans fat was the first. So it was gradual.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
I have this big flab under my arms at the back that I want to get rid of. Luckily no one sees it, because I do not ak around in a bathing suit or evening gown the kind those 1930 girls in the movies used to wear. 
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
26 Dec 09
I always had an hour glass figure. I still have the top part. It has not gone flat yet.
@dragon54u (31633)
• United States
24 Dec 09
That's wonderful, congratulations!! Although you're not losing where you want to, it will all even out in the end. I always lose in my bust first and my bottom last and I need that reversed! Our bodies are pretty strange sometimes.
Are you eating anything special? How are you losing, what's your secret?
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@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
I am taking chromium. I was not losing anything until I started to take that. I had already eaten lots of veggies and whole grain bread when I could get it. I figure that there was something lacking in my diet and that was the reason why I was borderline diabetic There is another herbal medicine I take Gymnema Sylvestre and that has gotten my sugar down faster then with the pill my doctor gave me. He does not know about it. There are other remedies I have not tried yet. But those were the ones that helped. I also do a lot of work around the house, etc. but then I always did it. I think that part of my problem is being born in a cold climate where I should have been born in a warm climate around the Mediterranean or in Italy where there are a lot of more fruits and veggies growing. 
@gitfiddleplayer (10362)
• United States
24 Dec 09
At least you are loosing weight during the holidays, that's something.
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@ramos7881 (344)
• United States
24 Dec 09
I also have to congratulate you on this! I would have to agree with the first response also in that you should probably leave it alone for awhile. You said you are eating healthy - your body is going to take care of itself if you are giving it the tools needed to maximize its function (i.e. adequate nutrients, water, exercise). You are doing great!
I have been trying to lose weight for several months now and have only lost 5 pounds. I know how to lose weight, the problem is that I always choose convenience over health. For example, if I would rather have a few extra minutes sleep, I will just drive through somewhere for breakfast (or grab candy on my way out the door). And it is like that all day long. I'm still working on it though, trying to find ways to make sure that I have healthy choices available all day so I don't have to buy out of the vending machine or from a fast food restaurant. (So far I have bought a 24 oz water bottle that I carry with me so that I am not tempted to buy sodas - but hey that was 5 pounds lost).
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
26 Dec 09
The trouble is that it does not matter if I eat healthy, I still could not lose any weight. The doctor gave me some diabetic pills because my sugar was high and it ran in my family (sort of, try this, it might help) and I did not lose anything. I could eat salads and non fattening food to my heart's content and I would not lose, and I also could eat junk food and I could not lose, but my weight would stay the same. It was not until I started to take Chromium that the weight started to come off. yet it did not come off of my waist, everywhere else, but not my waist. I figured I was built this way.
I can understand someone eating candy and junk food and gaining weight but you are not supposed to gain it when you eat healthy, are you? So that means that for some people like me, it is something that is lacking or has been taken out of the regular diet. Too bad organic is so expensive. They have not taken anything out of that yet.
@jezzmay (1845)
• United States
24 Dec 09
This also happens to me, when I began to loose
weight, it came off in my hips and legs first.
But now I am loosing weight in my upper body.
It seems like you never loose where you want
to. I have lost 40 pds in the last 3 months.
I too eat healthy, I am making it a life style.
Have a great Christmas.
@suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
And I used to have an hour glass figure and it came off proportionally everywhere else. But I do wish it would come off my waistline. It seems that is the danger point as far as diabetes and pre diabetes is concerned. I do eat a lot over the holidays, but it has not affected my weight. But I do take chromium and herbal substitutes and they help.
@cyrus123 (6363)
• United States
24 Dec 09
Congratulations for losing all this weight! It would be in the wrong places, though, wouldn't it, lol? I especially congratulate you for losing it at this time of year. With all the goodies, parties, get-togethers for the day itself, etc. it's really hard to watch our weight. I know you feel a lot better. I don't worry about it until after the holidays, myself. I wish I could help you as far as the jeans are concerned. Maybe some of these other mylotters can, though. Kathy.
? I especially congratulate you for losing it at this time of year. With all the goodies, parties, get-togethers for the day itself, etc. it's really hard to watch our weight. I know you feel a lot better. I don't worry about it until after the holidays, myself. I wish I could help you as far as the jeans are concerned. Maybe some of these other mylotters can, though. Kathy. @suspenseful (40192)
• Canada
28 Dec 09
I still eat a lot, but I am quite busy with my husband having als and me having to move the Hoyer to lift him up from one chair to his wheelchair, plus dressing him, rolling him over in bed, plus doing the snow shoveling. And I do take chromiumu that helps. I will have to check the waist of the jeans from the Additionelle site to see if my waist is a bit smaller. I do know they cut them a bit large around the tummy for large sized people. Or they are hip huggers and I had no idea. I am not exactly a jean person anyway.
