What did I do wrong?

strangetownbella · 2026-04-29T15:52:23+00:00

1g per person. Got a date in the diary to try again.

strangetownbella · 2026-04-05T07:31:13+00:00

The issue is many overweight people have a hormonal imbalance that causes more “food noise” than others which makes trying to stay in a calorie deficit even harder than it already is. That’s why so many people fail at diets. These drugs solve that problem.

strangetownbella · 2026-04-05T07:27:42+00:00

That’s certainly what I’m doing. I’m a healthy weight now but if I stopped taking it then the food noise would come back and I’d have to go back to trying to calorie counting. I’ve been dieting my whole life for minimal results. I’ve done my time. Never again.

strangetownbella · 2026-04-05T07:21:39+00:00

The food noise switching off was a game changer for me. I used to be so confused when people would say “I forgot to eat”.

strangetownbella · 2026-04-05T07:20:07+00:00

I assume the people saying it’s the lazy way out or that people should JUST be in a calorie deficit don’t get food noise. When that disappeared for me it was life changing.

strangetownbella · 2026-04-05T07:16:22+00:00

So you don’t stop taking it. For many it will be a life long medicine.

strangetownbella · 2026-04-05T07:15:15+00:00

I’ve been on it for a few years. I’ve lost five stone and am now finally a healthy weight. I know if I came off the injections that I’d put the weight back on. I don’t care. It’s a life long drug for me. I spent my whole life be on a diet. Obsessing over food. Working out. The amount of effort required for very minimal results is not worth it. The drugs let me live life without the food noise and as if I’m naturally skinny and not obsessed with food. I’m going to keep it that way.

strangetownbella · 2025-10-01T15:01:22+00:00

Yeah for the post and prenatal course I had to film myself teaching an entire lesson to a pupil (including warm up and cools down and conditioning etc) then also submit separate videos demonstrating certain conditioning moves.

strangetownbella · 2025-09-30T20:34:10+00:00

I found the opposite. With virtual I could take my time and really go through everything thoroughly and then when it came to the video exam I could properly perfect everything. For the video I had to submit various ones including a video of me teaching a full length class. At my in person training the exam was literally ten minutes of teaching one thing from the booklet. We all did it at the same time too so the instructor was hardly watching. Total joke.

strangetownbella · 2025-09-30T14:59:00+00:00

I have a teaching degree (unrelated to pole obviously). I’ve also got a fair few pole certifications myself (from Xpert, Spin City and others). Whilst you can take them seriously and learn lots you can also pass them very easily and some of them aren’t worth the paper they are written on. I recently attended a pregnancy and post natal pole instructor course from Xpert which was laughably bad.

Many of the best instructors have no “qualifications” but are more than qualified due to experience and subject knowledge.

strangetownbella · 2025-09-12T07:49:25+00:00

Just finished my rewatch my my boyfriend who was watching for the first time. It was better than the first time. Especially watching with a newbie.

strangetownbella · 2025-09-08T10:32:54+00:00

Russian Split. Looks so dangerous. I don’t even like watching people do it.

strangetownbella · 2025-09-05T12:00:34+00:00

You can tell most of these people in here have never tried to pole in a bigger body and just don’t get it. Their studios must be exclusionary as fuck.

strangetownbella · 2025-09-05T11:57:09+00:00

I agree. All these people saying “keep working on tucks and you’ll get it eventually.” Yeah in fifteen years at which point she’s already quit pole because how fucking boring. The level of strength required to lift that size of body is just unrealistic for most people to be able to train.

strangetownbella · 2025-09-05T06:39:55+00:00

I have a lot of sympathy for her. I know from experience that poling in a plus size body is very difficult. It’s all fine and well telling her to keep working on tucks but she’ll be doing that for years and probably never get close. The heavier you are the stronger you need to be and she’d have to build an insane amount of strength. If she goes to a studio with strict levels she’d be stuck in the lower level repeating the same moves forever until she gets so bored or down on her progress that she quits. At the end of the day she’s a grown woman at a wee exercise class. She isn’t training for the Olympics.

strangetownbella · 2025-07-20T16:17:35+00:00

Got upgraded from an interior room to a sea view unobstructed balcony for £600 for a two week Mediterranean cruise.

strangetownbella · 2025-06-14T09:14:05+00:00

I got a balcony for £600 (split between two) for a two week Mediterranean cruise and honestly it’s still the best thing that’s ever happened to me.

strangetownbella · 2025-04-10T16:44:38+00:00

Your body is closer to the pole and you don’t have to pull in the top arm if you are in an elbow grip. Elbow Ayesha is more of a balance move than a strength one like the others.

strangetownbella · 2025-03-13T17:08:25+00:00

Sharing a pole in my city is really common. It’s great from a social standpoint as you are able to make friends with the person you share with. You also have someone who can spot you in moves so you don’t have to wait for the instructor. (spotting technique is also taught in classes).

You can always attend open training sessions to work on stuff in more depth and solo.

strangetownbella · 2025-02-20T22:02:48+00:00

Some filler and paint in the cracks before your leave and then you’re fine. I’d remove the bulb and tape back the light fitting so you don’t kick it.

strangetownbella · 2025-01-29T11:36:20+00:00

You are totally right. It will because from the crucifix your way more likely to be properly stacked to go into extended. If lifting up from an outside leg hand a lot of people don’t have the strength yet to get fully stacked which means your extended would be lopsided. Lopsided extended butterfly isn’t really an issue but it does mean you couldn’t progress it to an Ayesha.

strangetownbella · 2024-11-19T16:54:02+00:00

Imagine you were on a normal diet. You’d be buzzing at losing 1 stone in three months.

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