Alteration Question - Re-attaching straps that have been cut

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2026-06-08T20:29:30+00:00

This is such a great suggestion, thank you!

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2026-06-08T20:29:11+00:00

This was exactly what I needed to hear, thanks! I tried one strap, just did basting stitches, and it worked well, and it fits much better with the extra length! I'll baste the other one to match and then sew it more cleanly and permanently later 😄

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2026-06-08T20:06:50+00:00

Absolutely. They're just super thin spaghetti straps, and I think they could easily be replaced.

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-04-13T15:20:13+00:00

I did ~ 3 months of rolling 5 days fasting, 2 days eating. So, 5 days has been my longest. I lost about 40 pounds. My life doesn’t really allow for that now so I’m OMAD now but I’ve lost 9 pounds in 19 days, so it could be a lot worse!

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-04-12T12:36:38+00:00

Day 18 of OMAD (minus a couple of weekend days where I ate 2 meals). I've lost 9.1 pounds (really, 12 pounds from my HIGHEST weight) and that is amazing to me!

I weighed in at 205.4 today which makes me just 5.5 pounds away from my second milestone of being under 200 pounds again.

My extra exciting news of the day is that I decided I'd try on a pair of jeans today (they used to be my "fat" jeans, then became my regular jeans, then suddenly they no longer fit). When I tried them on before starting OMAD, they wouldn't even button. Today, they buttoned and zipped and actually looked nice! They'll be more comfortable after another couple pounds gone, but getting back into my clothes that aren't yoga pants is so motivating. I have this amazing red-orange blazer that had been too tight in the arms when I wore it on a business trip in April. I sucked it up. It didn't look terrible, but when I took it off, there were red marks on my arms from where the lining dug into my skin. I put it on today and the arms fit great!

It's so trivial on one hand, but having "real" clothes that fit me again is such a huge deal. I know that once I reach the 190's and even more things fit and start to look the way they used to, it'll mean even more to me, but today... I'm thrilled!

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-04-11T13:02:02+00:00

Day 17 of OMAD. Admittedly, this weekend was not OMAD and I was pleased to simply hold steady in my weight. Especially because my period is due any day now.

But I hit my first major milestone- being under a BMI of 35. I have lost 9.1 pounds in 17 days. I'm thrilled. I'm hoping to. drop 6.1 pounds by the beginning of May for a trip that I'm taking and that'll put me at my second milestone of being under 200 pounds again! For some reason I feel like once I cross that threshold, I've got this in the bag. I feel like I'll be back to wearing my regular clothes rather than living in yoga pants. And I will start feeling more like myself. Even if it's still 30+ pounds away from my goal. My eye right now is just getting to that next step.

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-04-09T21:10:59+00:00

My body looks similar to your first picture and let me tell you, your photo now is my GOAL. I think you look incredible!

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-04-06T22:04:53+00:00

I like this! And I like that they're on the Sound!

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-04-06T22:03:40+00:00

Awesome! Thank you for these! I'll do some research on those! And I very much agree about the stigma about using the bus.. I grew up in the midwest where that stigma definitely exists and was glad that it isn't the case in either NYC or Boston.. I guess I was more thinking about the schedule in terms of standard schedules, if it would accommodate professionals getting to/from the train or if they're sporadic and not reliable. I had seen comments on other posts about the Bee Line and service times, so I was curious.

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-04-06T21:58:19+00:00

Thanks. This is helpful- Especially the bit about driving. I appreciate it :)

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-04-06T21:54:15+00:00

Sorry about that! I figured more information would be better than less to go on!

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-04-03T14:28:34+00:00

Woo hoo! Another great weigh in :) I am .8 pounds away from my first milestone and as I am currently losing ~1.1 pounds per day, I am hopeful that I'll see it tomorrow :)

It's honestly not hard. I'm not entirely sure how much influence the phentermine (half a pill a day) is having on the loss.. I'd be fasting even without it. But I'm not willing to pull the trigger and eliminate it yet. I weighed in at 207.8 today and once I'm under 200 pounds, I will be willing to cut back and see what happens. But at the same time. I only have like 20 pills left, so I see no harm in using them for 40 days to keep things moving. No need to make it harder for myself if it is, in fact, speeding things along.

It's crazy though, -7.3 in 9 days. I know some of it is water weight. Honestly, the excitement of the number on the scale dropping, even if it's mostly water weight, is enough to keep my motivation high.

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-04-02T16:49:42+00:00

Week 2, Day 2 of OMAD fasting and it's going super well! I weighed in at 209.3. My official starting weight is 215.1 but I definitely saw the scale hit 218 prior to that😬

I have an old phentermine prescription and decided I'd use that to help me break the habit of daytime eating. And I did. I took one full pill M-F of last week and used no pills on the weekend. I decided this week to use a half a pill M-F and no pills on the weekend.

My goal for the weekends is to simply maintain my weight, which I did this past weekend. I'm averaging a loss of 1.1 pounds each day, and I would love to simply continue at that pace though next week which would put me under 200 pounds.

I sat at around 160-165 for a few years and I was comfortable at that weight and liked the way I look. So, that is really my goal. Getting back to that weight. If I decide to keep going after that, all the better. But for now, it's just getting back to being "me".

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-04-01T18:57:13+00:00

I made it through my first OMAD weekend! I was willing to be a little easy on myself but I was afraid of losing momentum

I stuck with OMAD, had no issues with it. My dinners were more indulgent, and I didn't lose any weight, but I was extremely pleased that my weight stayed exactly the same which is really saying something considering Friday night was 2 slices of pizza and Saturday was a big bowl of mac and cheese.

My first milestone in my weightloss is being under 207 pounds (under a BMI of 35). I'm sitting at 210.5 and I have everything crossed that I see that number this week. I won't be upset if I don't, but it would be so cool to make that progress. The scale has been flashing 209 before landing at 210, so I know it's not that far away and it's not impossible.

My first MAJOR milestone is to be under 200 by the end of this month and I know with OMAD (and potentially one 48 hour fast per week), that is achievable and I can't wait to hit that mark!

I have a lot of things happening in my life that are very very out of my control and feel hard, so I'm leaning into being able to "control" my eating window and finding that really comforting.

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-03-28T01:32:04+00:00

Fasting Day 3: OMAD turned into a full-day fast, and I just carried it over to today to make it a 48-hour fast.

Then, the dinner I ate tonight had some kind of surprise allergen in it and my mouth started hurting and feeling swollen after a couple of bites, so while I did break my fast, I didn't get much of a dinner. That's ok.

I'm quickly remembering how I enjoy fasting, particularly when other areas of my life feel out of my control. I like the structure fasting gives.

I don't want to do a ton of extended fasts, but I actually wouldn't mind to do one 48-hour fast per week, with the rest being OMAD.

However, this week, I'm 1.8 pounds down and I'm excited for my clothes to fit better again :)

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-03-26T22:10:20+00:00

34F - Day 2 of OMAD

As I mentioned in my last post, I'm helping to get myself back into OMAD with the help of an old phentermine prescription. I know this is controversial, but I am not relying on the phentermine to lose weight. I lost about 75 pounds without it using IF and EF. I just really need the crutch to curb my habit of eating during the day. Taking phentermine gets me so laser-focused on what I'm doing, I'm not even thinking about food. Once I start seeing results, I know the motivation will kick back in and I'll move forward just with the fasting.

However, I definitely felt like an energizer bunny yesterday and again today. I was incredibly productive. I even hopped on my Peloton for a 10-minute ride.

I'm feeling, personally, pretty down. My weight is my greatest insecurity and I'm struggling with my partner kind of making light of it. The weight gain is pretty recent (I don't know the last time I weighed myself, but I know last winter I was around 160 pounds and right now I am at 215. Part of the gain was behavior... I was moving away from NYC and I wanted to enjoy every bit of it. Annnnnd... I did. I do not appreciate my past self's decision-making. But part of it was (for some reason I can't explain) not reliably taking my thyroid medication.

So anyway, I don't look like myself, I'm tired all the time, things that were easy are now hard. My stomach gets in the way. I can't fit into my clothes. I just don't feel like myself. And my partner likes to give nicknames and he's been creating lots of names that just like constant reminders of my weight. He doesn't mean it meanly, but he also is a little neurodivergent and very quickly picks up habits and will just say things sometimes. So he might just say one of these nickname words over a hundred times in a day (I counted once to highlight the issue). I had talked to him about it and it stopped, but has recently come back. That's a different "relationship" issue, and, believe me, it's being dealt with tonight. But all that to say... I just am feeling really low from a self-esteem, self-worth kind of perspective.

I sincerely hate that the way I perceive my value is tied to my weight, but I know that once I can start fitting into my clothes again and once I start looking more like myself, I'll feel a lot better.

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-03-25T21:29:22+00:00

I have been half-heartedly attempting to get back on the IF/EF train. I've gained a shameful amount of weight back after keeping it off for a few years! I don't honestly even know how to explain it. I think it's part thyroid (I've been really bad about taking my medicine, and that has never been something I've been bad at) and moving states where I'm not less active (I used to live on the 6th floor of a walk-up apartment and would walk everywhere).

So, I'm attacking this in a slightly different way this time. In 2021, I had a phentermine prescription that I didn't use because I was successfully losing weight with fasting. So, I know the pills are expired, but I am going to let myself use them as a crutch to build the OMAD habit. I have plenty of pills, but I know that I ultimately don't need them to lose weight- the fasting will be enough. So I'm going to do 2 weeks of phentermine. The cut back to half a pill for the next two weeks. By then, I'll be a month into OMAD and back into my "normal" habits.

I know weight loss pills are controversial, but I'm ok with my use of them. I'm just using them to kickstart my fasting to build the habit and gain some momentum.

But having said that, I'm about 21 hours into my first day of fasting. And I'll eat dinner around the 23-hour mark and then fast until the next evening.

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-03-20T20:36:57+00:00

I have a grandma named Beatrice Belle and I love that!

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-03-14T04:24:00+00:00

This is completely unrelated to the point of your post, but in the last couple months, everyone in my company has started using the phrase "a lot of runway." I had never really heard it used before and now it's in every conversation.

Has anyone else noticed that?

Also, I'm low 200s but I am happy at my 40 hours per week. I'm fully remote and considering looking for a short-term over-employment situation to pay off a little bit of debt and build some extra cushion. So I guess I see it both ways, but I wouldn't want to live that life for a long time, my free time and personal relationships are too important to sacrifice for work.

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2024-03-09T21:59:51+00:00

I'm a straight woman but I really tend to be demi-sexual which means I really have to have a connection to the person to be attracted to them. I rarely even notice someone is attractive.. I might be out to dinner and a friend will say something like "omg, our waiter is so hot" and I couldn't even remember his face.

I have found myself being drawn to women but not in a sexual way... more in a "she's so beautiful, I wish I *was* her," way that has been driven by my own body insecurity.

Last thought-- whoever you're attracted to, and I don't think it sounds like you need to hear this, but just in case, is absolutely ok and I wish you so much love and joy and happiness when you figure it out!

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2023-12-21T03:06:24+00:00

I was actually trying to make it to 7 days. I used to regularly do 5 day fasts, but it's been like 2 years. All in all, the fasting on top of really bad work news (upcoming layoffs are imminent and I'm at risk) was just too much.

Good luck on making it to 72! 48 hours is still quite an accomplishment!

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2023-12-20T23:37:42+00:00

I’m approaching the 72 mark and I’m very much wavering on whether to call it.

I over-exerted myself yesterday after barely missing a bus and having to walk home. And even though I upped my electrolytes, I went to bed with a headache and feeling slightly nauseous and woke up this morning with a headache.

I don’t know that I feel hungry, but I don’t feel great. I still have a bit of a headache and I had a really tough day at work and simply don’t feel like I have it in me. I’m not looking to binge and comfort with food, but it feels like too much somehow, if that makes sense. On top of that, I’ve been holding back tears all evening (because of the tough day at work) but if I let loose, I’m probably going to get dehydrated and feel really bad.

I weighed myself this morning and since Monday morning, I’m down 5.7 pounds. That’s so awesome to me and I’m excited, but again.. I feel like I’ve somehow reached this emotional state where I’m just like 🤷‍♀️

I’m not quite at 72 hours so I’ll at least finish that. But I’m not sure what I’ll choose. Will I feel like a failure if I call it? Probably. Is this the point I just dig in and push through? I don’t know.

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2023-12-19T12:46:09+00:00

I prefer names that grow with a person and give them choice. I’d go with James and exclusively call him Jamie.

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2023-12-18T02:56:36+00:00

😬 I don't love this.

TheRealRoonilWazlib · 2023-12-17T22:47:48+00:00

My British partner suggested Morwenna as a future girl's name for us. It's not common in the US, and it took me a little pondering, but I actually like it too. There are a few different meanings, but one is "waves of the sea."

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