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When “ankle-length” isn’t: How to measure your jeans inseam before you buy
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. Every pair of pants I buy is too long. Even the petite ones sometimes. Which feels a bit personal. I found these amazing Levi’s Eve jeans in South Africa. The waist fit. My bum looked great. They were perfect, right down to the part where they…
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Weight Loss Through Mediterranean Diet
As a petite, something that is really important to understand is that it takes time to lose weight. For Rose*, she lost a total of 18kg over a period of three years through a combination of boxing training, trail running, HIIT and the CICO method. It was weight loss through a Mediterranean diet, with lots…
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60lb Weight Loss for 5’1 Petite
In today’s inspirational weight loss story about how a 5’1 petite lady had a whopping 60lb weight loss (that’s around 27kg) in two years. Weight loss, no matter how you do it, requires discipline, determination and an ability to see that the short-term pain will bring long-term results. There are lots of places on the…
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Weight loss surgery has dramatic results with a total loss of 190lb (86kg) in just two years!
This is a story about weight loss that started with weight loss surgery (gastric band) and sometimes weight loss surgery is looked at as ‘the easy way to lose weight’ and that couldn’t be further from the truth. Weight loss, no matter how you do it, requires discipline, determination and an ability to see that…
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Losing 39lb (18kg) reveals a gorgeous hourglass figure
This is a story about genetics and hard work. Having always been overweight, Chloe* lost a lot of weight (50lb / 23kg) in year 8. However, she lost the weight through calorie depravation (which is very different to calorie restriction, known as the Calorie In, Calorie Out [CICO] method). As it usually happens, she gained…
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PCOS weight loss. How calorie control and exercised reversed PCOS symptoms.
Most of the time, weight loss is only focussed on the number on the scale. And sometimes, whether it goes up or down, determines how you might be feeling that day. That’s why I love the concept of ‘non-scale-victories’ (NSV). Things like being able to do the button up on your jeans or a colleague…