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Was at the gym this morning....

Was great fun.... half an hour round trip walk to the gym and back, and whilst there, did 40 minutes on the cross trainer (this does seem to be getting easier....), then as I said I wanted to do some weights, we went to the weight room....

Did quite a lot of bench presses, which I always like, then got introduced to this weird 'climbing frame ' thing.

This was really fun... you sort of climb in, then raise yourself up and into it, and either facing foward or backwards, can get into various positions for doing differnt thing..... one you sort of rest on your forearms, with your back against the rear of the 'frame', and then do leg raises, points, etc, and knee raises; I guess a lot like situps, but in a differnt postion, and some more like ordinary leg raises, but again in a differnt position, all the time, doing a lot of weight supporting/lifting on the arms....

Then, twisting back round the other way, basically chinups or pull ups type things, and variations on that, including a very weird one, that words a odd bunch of muscles sort of on the back of the top of the arm, just up from the elbow... - I really should know more of the names of various muscle groups but I don't

Then a whole host of stretches and some more force against the bodys own weight tuype things, plus then using a strange pully weight thing... - ou sort of pull the weight, on a cable, towards you with both hands; as the elbows are in an odd pointing out pose, that works some slightly differnt bits of teh arms too....

- I'd have happily carried on a lot longer, but was told I'd done enough - OK so maybe the instructor was right... - I've some odd twinges in one of my legs now - that could of course be the two or so hours walking yesterday, or the over two and a half hours walk the day before, of course,

off out soon for another evening walk with W, after he's showered; I showered earlier after the gym.... - my tee shirt and hair were wringing wet

My jeans don't fit! - went out into town after gym (another twenty minutes walking), via the bank, then to Boots to get some achne err, achnie spot cream to add to the antibiotics to try clear them up
Anyhow, then went into the shop to find some new jeans...

Found a pair.
Black... and Four inchs smaller waisted than the ones that I had been weiring..... - 4 inchs, in less than 4 months....

Oh, and had a look in my drawer of 'clothes that don't fit because I've put on so much weight', earlier... and took out two blouses. one I'm wearing now, the other hanging up, to wear soon

Oh, and the dress I was wearing ages and ages back, I put on today for the first time in ... like err... months and months and months. and not only fitting better, but... - clothes do fit better it seems if you've got a waist, and clearly defined hips and bum areas, distinct from each other

Back to gym Friday, for the loverly H (a female gym instructor)- I bet she's a sadist in her spare time

Right, walking time soon... and maybe ... just maybe... a on the way home

Calories so far today, 1100 - eggs for breakfast, avocardo with tuna for lunch, and stirfried chicken, veg and noodles for dinner - I'll get into those 30 inch jeans that 'I'd never fit into again', some day soon... maybe... even, by the end of the eyar at this rate... - body changing shape more now, than actual numbers altering on the scales, but I'm not increasing in weight, even if its not dropping very fast (or at all) at the moment - I can feel bones in places I forgot I used to have them, top of my femur, hip, all my ribs and spine etc

Hospital twice I think next few weeks, once for testosteorne injection, and then again for taking bloods and measurements etc, for my growth hormone trial - the one where I have to demonstrate improvement in some criteria, in order to meet the funding criteria ..

These jeans are getting lose now - so loose I don't bother undoing the buttons to take them up or down, just 'slide' them up and have to use a belt to ensure they dont' fall off - maybe not quite dropped the next two inchs off though, to go for the jeans a size smaller, so I'll try wearing them another week or two maybe, then go hunt down a new pair