Walking and Weighing

One of the main issues that I've been dealing with is being told that as part of my health issues is that I must lose weight and reduce the size of my waist  Now that is a fair one as it could be said that the middle age spread had set it and had become quite established.  Part of me thinks, and Madam agrees, that I was dealing with it by the use of Shapewear and corsetry.

With the health issues things explained to me and then spending time with a consultant to outlined the way forward from a medical point of view there was a set of targets set that I had to do so that it would minimise, and possibly repair, some of the damage.  Initially the report was to get to my BMI weight. which was a target of 68kgs - so lose 20kgs and to lose 4 inches off my waist.   So effectively lose 20% of my existing body weight.

However the consultant revised the target based on doing a more detailed look at my height, build and frame and realise that 68kgs would be too much of a drop, 75kgs would be more appropriate.  A younger life of working in construction and starting as a labourer meant that my stocky frame and muscle build meant that a simplistic BMI target would not be appropriate.

There was a requirement to reduce the stress in life, which has been an ongoing process anyway.

So the enforced reduction to Semi retirement and then to progress to full retirement would be the first part.  

Next was how to lose the weight, well that started with sitting down and looking seriously at everything that I was eating, and when I was eating.  So an implemented change to the diet, cut out sugar, processed meat, cheese (which was a nightmare as I do like a bit of cheese). 

The consultant was then telling me to increase my physical activity - cleaning the house in heels apparently wasn't cutting it.  Jogging was out as I have a dodgy knee so it was a case of doing some walking and Master John managed to borrow a 'rolling road' and bicycle from one of the people that works for him for me to use.  so some short local walks and 45 minute sessions of cycling on a daily basis got things started.

As the initial weight dropped off it meant that I could start doing longer walks which seemed to be the best method of reducing weight, it also meant that I needed to do less on a static bike where you end up cycling no where and also it is not easy or comfortable to do while wearing a chastity!

The other key part of this initial weight loss was dressing the part.  Madam thought that it was appropriate that I dressed appropriately so heavy denier tights and a long sleeved bodysuit became my exercise uniform at at time the addition of a shapewear body mean that I was dressed appropriate as a submissive with a target to meet.

With the move to the new house I hit a bit of a block in the weight loss and was very much stuck at the 80kg mark, no matter what I was doing was having no effect.  Thankfully I was given some advice and guidance and with a few changes to diet again and also changing the fitness regime managed to get things going after a block of no movement for 4 months.

So with a new walking regime in place it got things back on track, it did mean that some of my shapewear no longer fitted and then as we approached spring and summer it was no longer possible to keep wearing the tights and bodysuit as the weather was just too warm to wear anything more than shorts and a Tshirt.

Thank fully I'm managed to get to the 75kg target, but unfortuately trying to manage myself at that level is difficult and what I found is that this second phase has resulted that I have dropped to 70kgs and that has come with problems of tiredness and one or two other issues where the Consultant wants me to put weight back on and my doctor at the time wanted me to get to continue to the BMI target of 68kg - the result is that I'm finding myself shattered come the early evening (thats an improvement where earlier this year I was completely done in by 3pm!!).

It now seems that the Consultant was correct that getting a weight at 75kgs gives me the right balance and also means that there is right energy levels, but maintaining that is challenging - there are other issues that now appear to complicate matters but they have only been found by solving the first health issue.

So What Now? - well I am on the mend, the weather has cooled so I can now get back to walking in my hosiery and body suit but my shapewear collection needs to be updated.  I'm still a work in progress but getting better.

I'm still alive - and still caged.

 Good Morning All,

its been a long time, sorry for that, but unfortunately my planned retirement/ life slow down became more of a forced change of pace, as Madam mentioned in her last post.

Well there has been some improvement in my health which has been great, but it has been rather slow and at times confusing on how best to recover.

We have been in the new home for a year now and it is getting to a stage where we are happy with it, there is still a lot of work to be done but this is something that does keep me busy/ occupied.  I would have had the main works complete but......well you can understand that it has been a bit of a struggle

But what about our FLR, well it is alive and well but we have made a few adjustments, nothing drastic or massive so. where we now live is very nice but we are do have neighbours closer that we had at the previous house but we do have the benefit of some hedges and a few trees that help to obscure the view and does pretty much allows us to have privacy but we still have to be a bit more careful and subtle about what and how we do things.

On chastity, I spent a number of months having control over my key as I was going back and forth to doctors and to hospitals on a regular basis often not knowing what was going to be done in terms of tests and scans.  However there is a certain discipline of only removing your cage just before leaving the house and attending an appointment and then getting back through the door of the house and refitting the cage.

But as things are starting to settle down and there are less visits on the medical side, the keys are now firmly back in the possession and control of Madam.

We have also had to settle into new routines, we are now close to all of Madam's family, generally they are all within 20 to 30 minutes of us (depending on the time of day due to traffic.). We've had to create a set of ground rules which is that they need to give us warning if they are coming over to visit.  The problem that we had was that for some members of the family they thought this was optional and I have to say Madam was bloody furious with her Mother when she would 'just pop' over, creating chaos to our plans and activities.  Thankfully I was able to stall Mother in Law in the living room while Madam hid in the bedroom and changed her outfit!!

Thankfully we seem to have them trained but it has been a struggle.

I'm also very grateful to Carol and Kerri for the way they have helped myself and Madam over the last year.  Madam has been away for a couple of weekends with Carol as a couple and it has done her the world of good and back in May Kerri took me away for a weekend in Bruge, which is a lovely place, while it was a more Vanilla type of break it was good to be wandering about the historic city with a very lovely TV girlfriend on my arm (or perhaps I was on her arm???) but there was frustration as we had both been caged by our respective Mistresses before departure.

So there we are, I think I'm on the mend and being the home maker/housekeeper while Madam is keeping very busy with her work.  while I may not be in a maids uniform all day I am maintaining standards by being dressed appropriately for someone of my status in a FLR.

There you go, an update and hopefully I can start to get back into a routine of blogging and updating you on what we are up to.  

Thank you for staying with us despite the long period of silence, it was all down to me and my lack of energy.  Hope to hear some feedback and to start on the next post.

billie xxx

 

On my way back - more to come

 

 Afternoon everyone - if there is anyone still out there viewing the blog - I'm still here and currently starting to get back up on my feet again.

Health and the regime of the new home has cause my absence from blogger but I'm hoping that I can start to work my way back into to things and start posting a little bit more.

Hopefully chat with more of an update soon

billie xxx

An Update from the Luff House

 From Madam Alice:

Afternoon Everyone,

we know that we have been very lax in our posts over the last 12 months, and for some people we have been very poor in our communication and responses to emails, for this we and particularly I am very sorry.

while we have made the excuse of the change of job, house move and our renovations - and these have been all true through to the end of 2025, the major issue that has now become obvious to me is that Mick/ billie hasn't been very well.

As many of you know he has had an ongoing health issue but we believed that we had that all in hand and managed with his weight loss, change of diet and also the retirement to reduce stress and also the strain of travelling.  We believed that all of this had things levelled out and the blood tests showed that we were starting to stabilise the condition

The problem is that Mick has continued to loose weight, more that the specialists would like, and while losing 6 inches from his waist is good, it is more that he was asked to do.  Also his energy levels have crashed and he is constantly tired.

The problem was that he has been driving himself hard to do work at our new home and while we believed that this work may be the cause of him being extremely tired at the end of each day, it appears that it isn't and that there is a bit more to it than that - more blood tests have been done, he has been told to rest and to try and get some more weight back on - and keep it back on.  The aim is to get his body back in balance and physical energy back on an even keel, it is proving a challenge for him.  I'm working from home a bit more to keep and eye on him and he has been banned from doing jobs and tasks for my family as they were consuming a significant amount of his time and energy, event to the point that he almost had an accident coming back home after helping a family member due to being so tired and drained.

To that end for the last month or so he has been put on enforced rest, slowing things down for him and also try and adjust make him feel and be better.

Sometimes I do despair with him but at other time I am always surprised how much he will commit to help others often to his own detriment, well yet again I have put my foot down to try get him to focus on himself and to accept that sometime he needs to selfishly focused on himself so that he has a quality of life and quality of health.  It will be a bit of a journey for him and us, but hopefully we can get him on the road to improvement.

Thanks to all of you if you have stayed with us and if you are expecting emails and responses you now know why there has been a bit of a delay or silence.

I hope that you will understand and please be patient with us.

Alice 

 

Stockings and trainers! Is this a fashion trend?

 Afternoon everyone, well we are well and truly into the new house.  While initially we were living and sleeping in the lounge while we started the redecoration and some of the conversion work, we have now actually been able to sleep in one of the bedrooms.

Madam's bedroom is well underway as that has been the priority and I seem to be smelling continually of paint at the moment.

With Madam very settled into her job and me being very focused on the renovations of the house, we decided to take some time out yesterday and go out for a sunday lunch in a local pub.  The aim was to give both of us a break from the work at home but also to start to see what there is locally to where we now live.  

While we know the area well geographically, and we are getting a handle on places to go walking, our knowledge of place to socialise and good places to eat are significantly out of date as the last time we really went out socially in this area was over 25 years ago.....and there has been some significant changes in that time.

so with a few online checking of reviews we headed to to chosen venue, a couple of miles away in a near by village.  The place was quite busy which was a good sign and it had a very good mixed crowd - old and young.  

Drinks were ordered and we watched some of the meals come out and they looked pretty good, so food was also ordered.

Lovely......

as we chatted, just normal vanilla stuff, Madam noticed a few younger women in skirts and wearing tights or stockings.  nothing unusual, particularly as the weather has changed to being a bit cooler and Madam was also wearing stockings and a Tweed skirt (oh how country folk we looked....) but where Madam was wearing a pair of knee boots with a block heel, she pointed out that these others were all wearing trainers.

This created a bit of a conversation between us, was this a trend? is it a fashion that we had missed.  

as we had our food there were a few more small groups and couples that came in and again several of the girls were wearing hosiery and trainers.  Quite a few of the younger women wear wearing fishnets.  

Then I noticed the next thing quite a few of them had seamed stockings/ tights, certainly more than just one or two.  At this point our conversation became even more serious as both Madam and I noticed that none of them had a straight seam amongst them.

Look we all know that keeping seams straight, particularly on stockings is a constant challenge, and when I'm required to wear seams it is an easy win for Madam if she is looking for something to pick me up for, but quite a lot of those that we saw yesterday were quite badly crooked and it was almost as if they hadn't straightened them when they put them on.

It gave us an interesting point to discuss, particularly as we both like our stockings and we both know what is involved in keeping them straight.  

So the question is - is this a trend and fashion to wear Stockings and trainers? and if they have seams does it matter if they are not straight? or is it simply a case that some people just don't care if they are straight?

The lack of attention to detail certainly annoyed Madam.

Changes but still here.

 Afternoon everyone,

Apologies for the very long gap in posting but the work life balance has been completely out of balance at the moment.

Some of you may know that we have moved house, or to be more honest, we are still in the process of moving.  Having gone through the stressful process of selling our house as well as finding a new home nearer to Madam's work.  Well we have found and purchased a home but be have a few more weeks before we can move in.

In the mean time we are staying with Madam's family, and daily life is very vanilla.  Most of our belongings are in storage and we are effectively living out of a number of bags.

At the moment we are staying with the Mother in Law (MoL) and it is becoming quite stressful for Madam, and it's not great on my side as I have a "Shadow" as I try and work from a small desk in her conservatory.  There is nothing remotely FLR about our current situation as the MoL would pick up on it immediately and she is quite a straight laced individual.

So what is the plan, well we move in to the new house in middle of september and while it is in very good condition we do want to make some changes, such as convert a small bed room to an en-suite for the Mistress Bathroom as part of it as a walk in dressing room.

Also the spare bedroom would become my room.  The kitchen needs work and there is the need for a home office for Madam and also one for me, we know what we want but we also know that we will do it over a period of time.  Madam wants me to be busy as I progress to a "semi retired" balance of work and home life.

Unfortunately it does mean that we'll be busy and the blog will take time to get back to what it was but bear with us and keep popping back to check for updates.

Madam sends her regards to all readers and is equally annoyed that we haven't got the stability that we had hoped for but hopefully that will change very soon. 

Purging the Wardrobes

 

Its' been a busy old period here in the midshire of England as Madam and I go through the process of trying to sell our current property and look for a new home back in our original home area of Leicestershire.  We have been faced with quite a few challenges least of which has been dealing with estate agents, If we hear one more time about how a specific property will be perfect for us and then promptly find that it is a 1 bedroom former Air B&B located 2 streets from Madam's sister I'm sure Madam will rip the throat out of the agent!  Bless her!

So while I have been very busy with doing renovations, repairs and decorating to make our current house meet all the expectations that a potential buyer might want and playing host to those that come for viewings, Madam has been enduring the occasional stay with her Mother when she is working up in the leicester area.

One of the things that this move has done is force us both to do a serious look at our wardrobes and drawers.  the reason being is that we are down sizing, we know that we are and we are also realistic to accepted that for both of us we will need to reduce the size of our wardrobes.

For me it has been straight forward for my vanilla work wear, there has been a few items into the Charity bag but generally it isn't too big a collection.

For Madam, she has had to look at what she needs for her work wear, in terms of Office smart and Office casual.  what has become clear is that she has had a clear out of quite a few shoes.  Her casual and social wardrobe is the one that has taken a serious hit as she went through it being quite ruthless and she thinks that she has quite a sensible clothing collection now.

What has taken quite a cull for both of us has been the FLR wardrobes and in particular has been my underwear drawer.

There has been a reappraisal of things such as thongs - when did I last were those? and anything that has a heavy lace front to it.  why the lace front? well the current Chastity cage allows my foreskin to pop out the end of it and it is like wearing a bloody cheese grater!  so those have gone!

We have also been realistic enough to look at some of the other items, particularly the Basques, for both of us that don't fit anymore.  Both Madam and I have lost weight and as such there is a few of the basques that just don't work anymore.

We have also looked at some of the outfits and also done a bit of rationalisation on things and got rid of things, either due to wear and tear, not fitting or in Madam's case "Did I really used to wear that? Oh no, time for that to go!"

It has been quite good to have this clear out and also to understand better what we have.  it also means that we also now have a better handle on how much stuff we have to move or to store (there is a real risk that we will be moving out before we have our new place so things will be going into storage.)

The other side of this selling your home process is the fact that we have people coming around the house to view it for a potential sale and as such we have had to make sure the place is "very vanilla" and that the overt signs of our FLR have been discretely tucked away.  I'll be honest it is a bloody pain but we are making head way.

We just need to find the right place to move to....and the chances are we'll do that without the overly helpful advice of the bloody estate agent!