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Well, on the day I was slated to have surgery, I hit the weight I was aiming for at last, and the city gets scheduled to go into lockdown Monday morning. And wasn't I clever to have cancelled the surgery two weeks ago and scheduled two grocery orders last week? But this probably means no acupuncture for a month unless I can convince her that, as I live alone and am allowed to have close contact with one other household, she can be it. And since my elbows just did their 'once a year ballistic' routine, where they freeze and do lightning jolts of pain, I hope she'll agree.

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Best of luck with lockdown and with the acupuncture.

Congratulations on hitting your target! Yesterday my scale told me that I have lost another 500g, so I am just 1.8kg from mine!

Thank you. I was actually expecting a lock down sooner or later. Rather wish it had been sooner but oh noes the blowback would have affected our premier's popularity.

Congratulations to you!

Of course, now the goalposts have moved and I want to drop another 5 kilos before surgery.

Oh, I hear you! Now I am thinking fitness and body recomposition, as the work-out community calls it. I don't like the loose skin or additional bits of extra fat lurking about, I need to keep on keeping on with the triceps etc etc etc. So I still want a BMI of 20, but it's got to be based on lean muscle, and good cardio-vascular health, not just on being slim but flabby.

Good luck with your new goal!

Thanks for the good wishes.

I wish body recomposition was possible at my age but I'm sure it's not. Loose skin is unavoidable, even without weight loss. However my loss has been so slow that I don't (yet) have great swathes of it.

Body recomp in the general sense - more muscle, less fat, better cardiovascular endurance - is possible at any age (even without being one of those Japanese grannies who trot up and down a mountain every morning before breakfast...), but yes, loose skin is one of those things that can only recover so far.

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