Success in Sussex – also known as a bathful of blubber

Wow, what a success story to report! 

We were all quite nervous last night, waiting to be weighed and measured, but needn’t have been at all.  Sadly one of our group, Julie, couldn’t make it, but between the remaining six of us, we had lost the equivalent weight of a six year old child!  Is that amazing or what?  Russell explained something about fat weighing half as much as water and so the equivalent volume we had lost would fill a bath with blubber.  Now that is a disgusting thought, but hey, better to have it in the bath than in the body.  A psychologist would probably say that visualising all that horrible fat being washed down the plug hole is a metaphor for us washing it all out of our bodies – I’m sure there must be something deep and meaningful about it anyway!

In terms of size, the six of us had lost 52 inches which is astounding.  The total is made up the inch losses from bust, waist, hips and one thigh from all of us.  To be honest none of us understood why we only count one thigh, as we all have two of them and as none of us are now unbalanced and wobbly, so we must have lost the same off each thigh.  But them’s the rules apparently.

Personally I was extremely pleased with my own results – a loss of nearly 9lbs and 10.5 inches – just the one thigh though!  Considering I really didn’t get into this properly for the first few weeks as I struggled too long with trying to drink two litres of water a day, I’m amazed.

And all this without a diet, without getting into that awful mental condition that goes with dieting and without being starving hungry or exhausted all the time.

I honestly don’t think I could have done it without Russell and the rest of the group.  The support and encouragement from them all has been wonderful.  We’ve been treated like the thinking, intelligent women we all are, not patronised or spoken to like we’re children, and that respect has been mutual.  Russell is a natural at this and I think we’ve all become very fond of him.

So hat’s off to Russell, Pete Cohen and Freedom Leisure.  This has been a truly rewarding experience and one that we all intend to continue – we’re waiting for Russell to confirm the time for us all to meet next week for a catch up and exercise class.

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