As life improves in ways we might not have ever expected….
Morning friends and thanks for popping in to the world of Magnet here on this relaxing Sunday afternoon.
Apologies for being later on parade than I had anticipated but like I said a few weeks ago, it was time to start doing this all at my own pace and on my own schedule so that I could enjoy continue enjoying writing the blog instead of looking at it as a bit of a chore.
So what is on the cards today? Well if I am honest, not very much.
I have a few jobs to do and will probably pick up a couple of Christmas presents as I am out and about, if only to save me ordering from the on line stores then having to wait at the mercy of the delivery man….
Yesterday was a nice day with great company and I managed to get a few jobs done even with the foul weather and cold conditions preventing any warmth from creeping into my bones. In fact, if I am honest I am cold as I sit here writing this, yet I am in my lovely warm apartment.
If a normal person were to walk in here now they would probably be alarmed at the temperature the thermostat is currently set at and insist I turn it down, yet I can not.
If I did, I would start to shiver.
Yet that was not always the case. I remember a film called Crazy People starring Dudley Moore and Darryl Hannah. It was a daft yarn about an executive who supposedly went crazy as he wrote “honest” advertising slogans. One of the slogans that always stuck with me was “Do you perspire on relatively mild days?” and “Yes! I want to go to the Bathroom!”
I did not realise until recently that I was actually one of those people. I didn’t “sweat buckets” but it certainly could make me uncomfortable on those relatively mild days and I found that I didn’t always need to wrap up against the colder elements such was the central heating I carried around in the shape of my fat stores.
Well now I have lost weight and even though I still have a little way to go, I am finding that as soon as the temperature drops, my body is in almost in shock at how cold it is.
This is something I have not experienced in years. That cold chill that runs from the neck was a welcome thing when I was hot, carrying extra weight and not enjoying the overheating. Now I am at the other end of the scale and cold all of the time, I’m not sure how to take it. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE a nice sweater to wear and now I am slimmer I can cut quite a dash in the latest fashions, but this is something that I am not used to. I was the guy who wore a T shirt as long as there was no snow on the ground. Now when the wind blows I want to put a scarf on….!
But I suppose I shall enjoy the fact that I will just grin and bear it because when the sun puts his hat on at next year’s summer holiday, I don’t suppose I shall be moaning about it then as I manage to keep my body temperature at a normal level simply because I am not carrying an extra 140lbs of fat around….
Changes.
Some good some bad, but ALL better…!
‘Till tomorrow,
Stay out of the fridge.
I am experiencing the same chill factor. I used to always be warm or hit. Now, I am looking for an extra sweater or jacket.
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It’s so weird isn’t it Sandi-Lynn?
We never consider these things but they are very real. However, I prefer a lower body temperature to sweating and not being comfortable….
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Yes but are you typing away in your sauna pants !
I don’t remember the film but it sounds like a good pairing.
It does get better + when you get those little moments of pure joy it gets you excited about future again 🙂
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Can’t always wear the sauna pants Emma, they need a rest on laundry day…. 😉
I am very much looking forward to the future because this is only one of MANY changes there will be to my life I am sure!
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Curiously I was always unnaturally cold even when 200 lbs. It is either my low blood pressure or I am a vampire. Glad life is a bit more chilled out, physically and emotionally. 🙂
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Most definitely a Vampire Kerry.
It’s the only thing that makes sense…..
I too am glad. I am relaxed and looking forward.
Thing are getting better and better everyday!
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I am so pleased. You deserve all of life’s good things!
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Thanks Kerry. You are very kind to say so.
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I’m cold 100% of the time from November – April. Two words: fingerless gloves. I call them my indoor gloves.
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Thats a bit Christmas Carol, Bob Pratchett with his lump of coal!!
Oh, no!
I think I am going to have to watch it now…!
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I put a pic of them on Twitter a little bit ago. I don’t think they’re too Cratchit-y. 😉
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Cratchit-y! I think the Oxford Dictionary has a new word heading its way…!
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I never owned a winter coat in my adult life. Now? I own 4 and am still freezing at times. So funny!!
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Crazy isn’t it!
I am enjoying being able to buy warm coats, but I will wear them out too quickly because I hate to take them off…!
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I have only one thing to say to you. Thermal underwear. That is all!
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Good shout. I have looked for the all in ones with the bum flap but cannot find them anywhere. It has to be original ones or none at all!!
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I’m a devotee of Damart 😀
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Is it an all in one though…!
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It can be – I favourite silk 🙂
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Saucy minx 🙂
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That’s it all positive !
Definitely not bum flap thermals for your bike they would not be wizard proof.
I’ll bid you a gd evening as I’m getting silly.
PS used to love “Magic Merlin”
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I think you are aren’t you…. Magic Merlin!!!
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I love this post! The changes our body goes through in weight loss are amazing! Enjoy your new look dear Cameron!
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Thank you for loving the post and I will certainly try Lynz!!
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I love that I don’t sweat like I have been working out all the time….I am finding getting cold a little, well very unusual…I am the one who always needed a fan on me, and the one who never wore a coat….know I wear sweatshirt jackets and even been wearing leggings….part of my overheating was hormones and once I got rid of those and a crap load of weight I feel I am almost human…..LOL and I bet you look very dashing in a sweater..!!! kat
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That is SO great Kat! And yes, I do rock a sweater quite nicely if I say so myself….!
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you always make me smile….LOL
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🙂
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