I expect that it will even out, I think we all have different weight distributions, we lose it all over but it's going to be more noticeable in the places we weren't really that big so haven't much to lose.
If I lose weight, I lose my boobs because they are naturally small .if I lose a lot like I did before diagnosis then then it looks absolutely dreadful . ( the skin there isn't elastic when you've had children and are now a grandmother)
Your hands and face fortunately have bones for support and not really that much fat so a small amount will make the difference. I agree about the moisturising of the face it can't do any harm and there are certainly people with good skin who swear by it. I wonder though if that is just lucky genes (creams on the outside, unfortunately can't effect the elastin that enables the skin to stretch and contract, genetics can)
@ Brunneria, May I ask if you were doing the walking before? I've just done a rough calorie/exercise count and that 5km or so a day makes quite a big difference to your net calories (providing you aren't now down to eight and a half stone.
I know that I cannot eat the amount of calories I do,albeit using a different diet, without at least that amount of daily exercise and maintain let alone lose weight.
Hi,
The exercise thing is very interesting to me. And I am about to bore you with it too.
I've had back problems for years, and from 2010-2012 I was limited to about 2,000 steps a day. And in quite a lot of pain.
Then I went to a chiropractor, who discovered that my sacro-illeac joint was out (where the spine meets the pelvis). he corrected it in a single session, with a single follow up. Bless the man.
Oddly, that level of in-activity had no impact on my weight at all. I was fat, but stable.
A few months (2012) later I changed job. And now walk to work and back most days. Only half a mile each way. It aggravated my back, but after about 6 months, the pain eased, then disappeared.
I was delighted.
Weight still stable-ish. A little gain, if I remember correctly.
I was low carbing, but not high fatting, through all of this.
Then, in Summer 2013, we got the dog - partly through the belief that enforced walking would help my back further.
It has.
So, from mid 2013 to now, I have been walking to work and walking the dog = approx 7,000 steps a day (he has very short legs)
I might hit 10,000 steps on the weekend, when we take him on a longer trundle.
No weight loss until I hit this forum (Feb? 2014) and starting very low carbing, and increasing the fats.
It has been slowly melting off since. And when I say slow, that is about 20 lbs since Feb 14
My own observation is that the quantities I'm eating are a maintenance amount, without the walking.
and they are a weight loss amount, with the walking. PLUS the increased fat.
I can only assume that the exercise reduces my (massive) insulin resistance, just enough to access my stored fat. But that is, of course, speculation.