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fiberaddictDidn't get home until *4* PM yesterday. I'm part-time. I am SUPPOSED to get off at *12* on Mondays. Once again, it was FA's office staff that didn't do their jobs - yes, the online service used for Invoicing had a glitch that caused problems. IF the office staff had actually LOOKED at the stuff before they approved it, *I* would not have had the problems I had. :sigh:
ANYway...Hearth is to blame for my current obsession. It's HER fault, you see - I was happy with the thought of a new corset-bodice for Highland Games, yes, just 1. SHE decided to get an underbust, and she asked me about them. I had to do some research (because I have avoided underbusts.....most of the ones worn to the Games are...well, they make the women wearing them look like cheap floozies. (Sorry, but...yeah.) *I* don't wish to look like that, so I stuck with overbusts-worn-as-bodices.)
Turns out, you can use an underbust to help re-train your ab muscles to flatten out. My abs...are hopeless. 2 large kids (and even larger weight-gain with them - I tended to gain 50+ with each kid, and I lost 40 on the table, usually. Yes, I'm serious - I had SERIOUS problems with water retention with both kids.) and rough pregnancies mean my abs have totally lost any retraction properties they may have once had. So...the thought of trussing 'em up? Makes sense.
I am NOT going to get into waist-training (not the way that term is used, I mean. It's.....scary.) I do want to get my abs to tighten back up - and sit-ups ain't working. So.....I've got my eye on an underbust; I'm going to pick up some cheap cotton camisoles to wear under it, and I'll see how corsetry goes. I'll never get back to my 24" waist - I'll be happy to reach 28" again. I'm currently at 31", so 28" is quite do-able, without going to extremes. (Or buying more corsets. :grin:)
SG is on board with it; he gave me the "You've got to be kidding me, we're not into THAT" eyeball when I asked about buying a corset and wearing it every day...I gave him the parental "Don't even GO there, I'm not crazy" eyebrow right back. When I assured him this was just to get rid of the belly pouch, and NOT to reshape myself to look like Barbie, he was OK. (The fact that this will be UNDER-wear, as opposed to outer-wear helped, too. There's a time and a place for bodice-wearing, and going to the local Post Office isn't it. :lol:)
The plus side: it'll reduce my appetite. It'll also improve my posture. Down side: I won't be as flexible...but I can live with that. I gotta do SOMETHING - I've cut out grazing completely and am only eating 3 moderate meals a day, but the weight-loss has plateaued. Yes, I need to add more exercise, but I simply can't do anything when it's cold - my wrist is swollen and painful today (and it's only 48*! Yesterday it never got to 40*......:owie:) and it hurts to do ANYTHING with it. Walking outside is problematical......so I sit. :sigh: Our weather's been so odd - it's been in the 70's, but with COLD winds (the thermometer reads 70, but you add in the wind chill and it's approx. 50. Weird!)
So....Hearth is to blame for this. She'll also get the credit for any weight loss that occurs from it, so it's all good. :grin: (And for the love of all that's important, do NOT go searching for terms like "waist training" or "tight lacing" or "wasp waisted". You'll be scarred for life.....some of these women are to be pitied.....they wear corsets 23 hours a day, and are trying to reduce down to 18" or so. :shudder: You reach a point where it's just no longer attractive, it becomes sick. And they look almost not-human any more....)
ANYway...Hearth is to blame for my current obsession. It's HER fault, you see - I was happy with the thought of a new corset-bodice for Highland Games, yes, just 1. SHE decided to get an underbust, and she asked me about them. I had to do some research (because I have avoided underbusts.....most of the ones worn to the Games are...well, they make the women wearing them look like cheap floozies. (Sorry, but...yeah.) *I* don't wish to look like that, so I stuck with overbusts-worn-as-bodices.)
Turns out, you can use an underbust to help re-train your ab muscles to flatten out. My abs...are hopeless. 2 large kids (and even larger weight-gain with them - I tended to gain 50+ with each kid, and I lost 40 on the table, usually. Yes, I'm serious - I had SERIOUS problems with water retention with both kids.) and rough pregnancies mean my abs have totally lost any retraction properties they may have once had. So...the thought of trussing 'em up? Makes sense.
I am NOT going to get into waist-training (not the way that term is used, I mean. It's.....scary.) I do want to get my abs to tighten back up - and sit-ups ain't working. So.....I've got my eye on an underbust; I'm going to pick up some cheap cotton camisoles to wear under it, and I'll see how corsetry goes. I'll never get back to my 24" waist - I'll be happy to reach 28" again. I'm currently at 31", so 28" is quite do-able, without going to extremes. (Or buying more corsets. :grin:)
SG is on board with it; he gave me the "You've got to be kidding me, we're not into THAT" eyeball when I asked about buying a corset and wearing it every day...I gave him the parental "Don't even GO there, I'm not crazy" eyebrow right back. When I assured him this was just to get rid of the belly pouch, and NOT to reshape myself to look like Barbie, he was OK. (The fact that this will be UNDER-wear, as opposed to outer-wear helped, too. There's a time and a place for bodice-wearing, and going to the local Post Office isn't it. :lol:)
The plus side: it'll reduce my appetite. It'll also improve my posture. Down side: I won't be as flexible...but I can live with that. I gotta do SOMETHING - I've cut out grazing completely and am only eating 3 moderate meals a day, but the weight-loss has plateaued. Yes, I need to add more exercise, but I simply can't do anything when it's cold - my wrist is swollen and painful today (and it's only 48*! Yesterday it never got to 40*......:owie:) and it hurts to do ANYTHING with it. Walking outside is problematical......so I sit. :sigh: Our weather's been so odd - it's been in the 70's, but with COLD winds (the thermometer reads 70, but you add in the wind chill and it's approx. 50. Weird!)
So....Hearth is to blame for this. She'll also get the credit for any weight loss that occurs from it, so it's all good. :grin: (And for the love of all that's important, do NOT go searching for terms like "waist training" or "tight lacing" or "wasp waisted". You'll be scarred for life.....some of these women are to be pitied.....they wear corsets 23 hours a day, and are trying to reduce down to 18" or so. :shudder: You reach a point where it's just no longer attractive, it becomes sick. And they look almost not-human any more....)
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Date: 2012-02-14 07:23 pm (UTC)(And for those of you skeeved out, think of the fact that my ribcage expanded by 2" for each of my giant babies, and then retracted again eventually on its own).
Anyway. It's YOUR fault, because I wouldn't have ordered the thing if you hadn't poked me about it. Two friends in two weeks sending me to the same site? I had no choice, none at all. -winks- (And MY DH ****loves**** corsets, would lace me up every morning in a heartbeat - assuming I wanted to be laced at 5am).
I'll take a pic when it comes in.
- Hearth
anna says
Date: 2012-02-15 02:00 pm (UTC)Re: anna says
Date: 2012-02-15 02:44 pm (UTC)I've worn corsets for years as costuming, and they are comfortable IF you have the right size and you're laced correctly. Can't comment on the reshaping issue, although I've seen photos. The extremists...,,well, tight-lacing does work.
Re: anna says
Date: 2012-02-15 03:29 pm (UTC)The scary girls have their waists pushed down to their abdomens, which I don't want.
The weight thing is because you eat less - much like bariatric surgery, you have less room.
I like TTapp for belly muscles. I sooo need to get back to that. I figure eventually for skin I'll have to trot 'round and get a tummy tuck. But you don't do THAT until all you have left is skin.
-Hearth