I started on social media pre covid when there were tutorials on anything you wanted to learn, bloggers of any subject, and everyone who had social media loading up photos of themselves and life flowed.
During COVID, everything went weird.
I suppose aesthetics wasn’t important when people were fighting for life.
Maybe the people staying home safe were designers?
I’d started learning how to make jewellery from a professional jewellery tutorial and how to do my makeup properly from a renowned makeup artist.
All that went away including exercise.
I was asked to do my bit to bring hope and help other women like myself.
Then the Dors Dozen turned up and I’ve been busy doing my bit on social media since.
We had an illegal eviction, so living here has been hard and miserable, but the first Christmas I put together a Christmas show on YouTube that was Tom Jones, Dolly Parton and some ancient Japanese music.
We had a chicken-ready meal and got some Chambord.
We thought it was liqueur, but it actually mixes with champagne.
This simple idea got us through our first Christmas.
Suppose this is where the idea for weekend film choices came from during COVID and post COVID-19.
The Dors diet got me back on my feet, so I then went on to share what I had found with other women who couldn’t go to the gym because of the lockdown.
I had an idea to put my ideas into a kind of self help calendar for slimming and fitness and then someone suggested a fashion calender.
Sometimes it gets a bit hectic, but it seems these are the times when our bodies are changing and pushing through blocks.
Janes July
I was trialling this out during the heatwave and hit an exercise plateaux block, but also dropped a few pounds.
My body decided it was having a week off and having none of it.
But this week it said go on then and I tried it again.
Absoloutly loved it.
I only did the low impact, but I used to do that at the gym anyway.
Especially loved the texan cowgirl segment and then when Jane Fonda says how good it feels in the cooldown, I got it back!!!!
Felt great all night and slept really really well!!!
Just hope it is working for everyone else!!!
The best thing is the different levels, it means it reaches to advanced exercisers too.
We should be careful with high impact and follow the new knowledge.
I’m not planning on jumping at all now I know the risks.
My goal is just to slim down into my old dress size, so if I can do that with low impact will just do that.
I got stalked about being size 8 by a celebrity revolting.
She made me really paranoid about myself and lied.
Not being funny but I said I never tried to be famous as I thought I wasn’t anything special. She was obviously employed for hers looks so was better looking than me anyway.
She still went on to pick on me and I had to put weight on.
Instead of buying new clothes in my new dress size I had to squash into my size 8 dress.
When I put weight on I can’t get dresses as I go bigger at the top but my hips stay small.
Hopefully, I’ll go back down to my old size that fits with fashion.
If you fit hourglass you don’t have this problem and should buy hourglass clothes, but if you are a different shape you have different goals. What is the problem with this?
When I was stalked by someone in a jeep once, then the police turned up at my house to breathalise me?
I invited them in and took the test as I said I wasn’t drunk?
They tell you what you are and write it down.
I came up slim build with yellow hair.
Think that is why I coloured my hair brunette again.
Not sure who was in the jeep, but the police were on my side.
I’ve always supported the police as I’m a law abiding citizen, which they could obviously see.
We discussed this at my illegal eviction.
At that point the teaching profession was dwindling, there was no NHS and the police profession was going under.
Glad I got out of teaching.
Well, whatever all that was about I don’t know.
I used to do the neighbourhood watch scheme with this nice lady who looked after my cat when I went on holiday, we had the police around all the time.
People don’t do that anymore they take their dogs on holiday and make it hard for the cleaning staff of hotels.
I actually believe in rebuilding communities and having more police and a better police force.
I think everyone wants that except the bitch that stalked me I suppose.
Life Begins Again
Well whatever covid was it seems to be going now and things are starting to work again.
I’m going to keep going with what I’m doing during the transitional phase, then leave everything there for reference.
Like everyone I have plans and dreams, maybe we will all get to live them soon.
Conclusion
When life tests us and people we don’t like get involved in our lives somehow without our consent or control, the only thing we can do is maintain our integrity and fight for survival.
Covid has been a horrible time for everyone, but it has made us pull together as a human race and push to make things right again.
I’ve surprised myself with what I am capable of.
In the grand scheme of things I’m not very important, but I have found I can do more than I realised and I hope my little contribution is helping.
If you are my body type, I think we have had quite a bad time of it lately, just for being born a certain shape which isn’t our fault.
Hopefully what I’m doing is helping you too.
If you aren’t my body type, I have found I am helping you lose weight also due to my simple easy weight loss methods.
I’m really pleased as I am a people person and want to help everyone.
When I was little I wanted everyone to like me and couldn’t understand why some people hated me. In counselling, I got told not everyone would like me and I just had to stop pushing myself on people.
Hopefully, by just putting stuff out there randomly, people can decide if they like me or not and I can help just the women who like me.
I suppose life is hard for us all really.
All we can do is try our best and keep moving forward.
Hope you are enjoying Jane’s July too and getting results!!!
n.b.
Will keep doing this and just see what happens and go with the flow now it is starting to flow again.
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