Are boobs just body fat?
Where have my boobs gone?!
I posted a picture of myself from 10 years ago on Facebook yesterday, looking a little chubbier than I do now. I guess I was about 3/4 of a stone heavier than I am currently (that’s about 4.7 kilos heavier). Definitely rounder in the face, arms less lean…and I know at the time the only real exercise I did was dancing on a Friday and Saturday night!
So one of my instructor friends said she’d seen this picture and had struggled to ‘see’ me in it. Have I really changed so much in 10 years? (I was 28 at the time.)
Yes, I have, and what really gives it away are the boobs. ‘I had boobs then,’ I said to her. ‘Otherwise known as body fat,’ she replied. We giggled, but do you know what, she’s blimmin’ well right. I have no idea what my body fat percentage was back then, but I imagine it was about 10% more than it is now! Now, I’m more muscle – hoorah!
Boobs, who’d have ’em hey…?! 😉
Cricket!
Cricket….it’s a Brit thing, but it’s also good exercise. Batting, bowling, runs…..I think I could get used to it. It’s a fab outdoors team sport, and has shades of baseball to it, so I can see it catching on in America! There is also a lot of standing around tho, and one does feel inclined to eat the grub on hand at the change of an over, so it’s not all good!
Claire Bolden McGill is a British expat who lived in Maryland for three years and moved back to the UK in August 2015. Claire wrote about her life as a British expat on the East Coast and now works in travel and hospitality PR in the UK. She still finds time to blog about her repatriation and the reverse culture shock that ensued – and she still hasn’t finished that novel, but she’s working on it. You can contact Claire via twitter on @clairebmcgill or via her blog From America to England.