The Right Track
Weigh Day #12
Weight – 128.05 Kilograms, 20.16 Stone, 282.3 Pounds
Weekly Weight Loss – 1.3 Kilograms, 2.86 Pounds
Total Weight Loss – 9.65 Kilograms, 1.51 Stone, 21.27 Pounds
BMI – 39.3 (Obese), Total BMI Loss – 3, Check Your BMI
Weekly Summary
Getting Back On The Right Track
The last weigh day felt like make or break. A little over the top granted but given the disaster of Christmas, I was beginning to feel I might be faltering. Yesterday, I was going through weigh days and felt I should have lost more. Then I reminded myself of the old cliché ‘How long is a piece of string?’ Everybody wants to lose too much, too soon!
The one thing you have to remember is this is long term and to keep going. I hit the dreaded wall over Christmas, but I learned a lot and feel very refreshed for the challenge ahead. I’ve weighed myself correctly (not wangling the figures!) and feel like I am getting back on the right track.
Great to lose more weight and be back in the habit. The week was good, with no slip-ups, back into the groove of three good meals a day. Keeping busy to take my mind off food.
Weigh Day #12
I can’t believe it’s weigh day 12! Delighted with the progress so far. No one ever said it was going to be easy! I feel like I’ve lost a month because of Christmas even though I was pretty good right up till the glorified Sunday. But, as I reported, the weight loss I’d been recording was a little false and once I’d poured some liquor down my throat, everything went wrong.
Nothing wrong with dwelling but also important not to let it drag you down.
That matters not one whit now as I’ve eaten pretty normally and not touched sugar since Sunday. Even then, I only had two small pieces of cake. The transition back to my pre-Christmas diet was not as difficult as I envisaged. Spirits are most certainly much improved from last week.
Sugar Squashed
Losing The Taste
I’m delighted to get the dreaded sugar addiction out of my system. I’m now going to think long and hard before I overindulge again. Whilst I do feel like I’m a month behind schedule, naturally I’m delighted with the loss so far. I’m feeling fitter, eating better and walking quicker. I no longer have that horrible desire to eat sugar. Luckily, this can be soon flushed out the system.
Last week, I got the sugar bug again. This was an after-effect of Christmas. Thankfully, as predicted, it takes a couple of days and it gets out of your system. I stuck with the plan and stayed away from the biscuit jar!
The Night Shift
Getting Through
Speaking of the biscuit jar, last night I did the weekend night shift. The shift of dietary nightmares! Somehow and I’ve no idea how I did this, I managed to steer clear of the cookie jar! I think that is a sign of where I am at with food. Ditching the sugar makes life a lot better even when it gets tough. I took some pre-made food and had my second and last meal around 11 PM. I’m not lying the biscuits were in my mind but as the night wore on, I found myself craving for them less and less.
When I have to stay awake all night which thankfully is not too often, the temptation for something sugary to keep me going is always there. Last time I cracked, gobbling biscuits with hearty glee. This time, I planned and went into the shift with the mindset not to crack. Not easy but I achieved this!
As I always say, take each little step at a time. I’ve got results. I have a long way to go but results are results. I feel like I am in my stride now and can do this. I kept busy most of the night working on this website. I eventually got home around 5-30 AM and slept till lunch time.
Back On The Right Track
Keep Going!
I knew this challenge was going to be tough. But, given the year I endured in 2023, I am glad to at last getting some weight down and studying food management and food science more and more inspires me to get the desired results. Making the start was the hardest part.
I got a timely reminder of how easy it can be to fall back into old habits. I’ve concluded I’m happier when not consuming alcohol or wolfing down sugar. However, having had those two as part of my life for nigh on my whole life, part of my brain still says to me that it won’t hurt to indulge a little now and then. Christmas taught me this is bollocks.
Super Sunday!
Feeling Great!
Once I’d climbed out of my pit, Larice made a delicious lunch. Don’t often eat salmon but this set me up nicely for the day.
Afterwards, I went for a wander with Bowie as Larice was busy all day cleaning the house and doing housewife-type things. Only too happy to oblige. Even though I’d been up all night and had less sleep than usual, I felt great today. I’ve concluded that it simply must be the sugar which really drags you down.
There was a lovely, earthy, organic feel to the walk today. The local park was full of parents and children playing. The weather threatened to rain but didn’t. Dog walking gives me valuable time to think. It felt like Sundays when I was growing up, with barely a soul about and everything feeling quiet, chilled out and relaxed. Or maybe it was my good mood!
We’re having a lovely Sunday watching a TV show called Loudermilk, no we’d never heard of it either! I had to drag myself away to finish this. I’ve not been so relaxed in front of the tv and not craving food for a long time. And we are going to have a takeaway tonight because we’ve earned it. My usual, donnar meat in kebab with peri peri fries!
The Week Ahead
Renewed Optimism
As I always write this is as much about lifestyle as weight loss but the latter naturally is the most important for me right now. I’ve put the nightmare of Christmas firmly behind me and got back on the right track. I needed to do that for my own sanity. Yes, it’s an easy job to just give up and not bother but I needed a stark reminder of where I was before I started this.
As for the week ahead. More of the same!!!!
