I loved my SkirtSports cycling skirt (bike shorts attached under the cute skirt) but it looks like they don’t make the ones I have anymore. Lots of women I know wear the Nuu-Muu exercise dresses over bike shorts for cycling.
Great weight loss, dmd77! Congratulations.
My daughter has bigger thighs and a small waist and is a triathlete. Her story of trying to get her new (first) wetsuit on to try it on is hysterical. She said it was harder than her 6 mile run.
@dmd77, fascinating info. Is any kind of legume more helpful than another?
My kid lost weight, she is down to size4. That’s the smallest size she’s ever been. She’s been eating lots of cucumber, cherry tomatoes, watermelon. She also doesn’t cook often so she is limiting her food and did a lot of outdoor activities like walking, hiking, white water rafting. The bad news is her face look too thin, IMO. Not the youthful looking kid that I used to know. I’m going to fat her up when she gets home.
On my way to visit my mother and drive her a long way to a family funeral. I typically self medicate with potato chips when I’m with her ( because there is no alcohol in the house ). Staying at a cousins house while at the funeral destination. Wonder if there will be wine? Probably little hope of not gaining a little funeral weekend weight.
Missy pie, why not bring a small bottle with you? Also, try the small carrot sticks while driving. Sorry about funeral.
If missypie is going to the bother of bringing a bottle with her, why should it be a small one? 
I’m just subscribing to this excellent thread. I’ve lost ten or fifteen pounds in the last couple of months-- not sure exactly, but my pants are falling down even though I pinned out two inches-- and my problem now is to keep the weight off. I fear my weight-loss plan of eating candy corn, sesame sticks and cashews all day, plus pie when I could get it, while extremely successful at weight loss, will not work for maintenance. I will have to stop eating like I have never seen food before whenever I get the chance.
Also, I’m a flop at Las Ma’s challenge of getting down to the floor and up again without using hands or knees. Can’t do it at all. I suspect hip flexor flexibility is the issue.
Skinny pop is a good mindless car eating item. Or some grapes or cherries. Or a snack size bag of homemade trail mix - mini chocolate chips, cherrios, almonds, a little dried fruit. A little goes a long way!!
Also , wanted to post this 200 calorie visual that @fireandrain found and posted on the D/E thread:
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-200-calories-look-like.htm
Very eye opening!
Beat me to it, abasket! I came here to do that!
One of the smallest items in that link is peanut butter – 200 calories is not a lot of peanut butter. I’ve been snacking on peanut butter lately because it’s protein, but I do need to be careful about eating too much.
Hi all - back from vacation…otherwise known as two events connected by 5 days of driving! I decided that it was vacation and I would try and be careful but not worry about what I ate, drank, etc. In the end, I arrived home only up 2 pounds, so I’m pretty happy, especially with all the time we spent in a car. The best was ringing the doorbell to the home of a couple we had met on a cruise a year and a half ago. They had invited us to visit them at their lake home which was along our route. Our friend greeted me with, “OMG, you’re so skinny!” Well, she’s now my new best friend. In reality, after a few days together all 4 of us realized that this was a relationship that will prosper. It’s not always easy to meet “lifelong-type” friends at our “advanced!” ages, but this just works. Now I have my D home for another 3 weeks and more family arriving next weekend, but I am getting back on track. My sister, a workout fiend, looks amazing and she gave me some good workout/diet tips that I hope to incorporate. New goal is to lose another 10 pounds by my trip to Amsterdam with my mom in April. Hope everyone is enjoying the end of the summer - it seemed to fly by this year.
@“Cardinal Fang” I don’t think you want really flexible hips - you want stable hips for the most part -unless they are extremely tight.
Have you tried getting up and down this way? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iyOdjsg1Zw
Even the third step on that video uses hands.
The challenge is to get down to the floor and up again without using hands or knees. The woman in the video goes down on her knees, and then her hands, so she has not met the challenge or even come close.
OK I miss understood. The way they show it in the video - by the third progression -that is how a PT would teach someone to get up and down off the floor. Using your hands on your own knees. I thought you meant without using another object. Sorry
I imagine there are loads of people - even people who are active and fit who can’t get up and down without even touching their own body.
This article has a very nice video (with English subtitles) explaining and demonstrating the test, with scoring given.
I can’t!
Thanks -I understand better now.
The article states that some of it is cultural- which makes sense to me. It is not a skill we practice in our culture I don’t think. We don’t squat either. I had heard that getting up from the floor was a mortality indicator -but I didn’t understand that it was not being able to press off on your own knee - like I mentioned before. That is how we teach people in this country to get up. (In my experience working with movement)
I think that would be very challenging for many of the seniors and middle aged people I know. I wish the article had tips on how to develop the skill instead of just saying you should be able to do it.
Truly a challenge !
Do they have estimate life span if we get a 4 vs a 5?
@veruca : I was unable to find instructions on how to train the skill on the internet, so I spent some time thinking about it. I can sit down and get up, no hands, ankles crossed, from a footrest that is 12" high. I can not do it to the floor, nor can I get up off the floor. So… what I need is a series of benches or steps or cushions or whatever in progressively lower heights so that I can gradually develop the skill.