Weigh In #17

Hmm. Am slightly disappointed with my loss this week. Yes, I lost 3 pounds. But I didn't weigh in last week so technically that's only a 3 pound loss in 2 weeks. Not the 2 pounds a week that I want! Oh well, I did have a weekend in Edinburgh, a meal out for my parents' 40th wedding anniversary and a couple of rather large pieces of English Cheesecake Company cheesecake (SO GOOD). But I've been 100% on plan since last Tuesday so was hoping for a 4 pound loss. Hmph.

Still, I've now lost over 40 pounds and only need 1.5 off next week to get my 3 stone award. That should be do-able, fingers crossed.

Onwards and upwards!

Starting Weight: 227 pounds
Current Weight: 186.5 pounds
Weight Loss This Week: 3 pounds
Total Weight Loss: 40.5 pounds
Target Weight: 140 pounds

 46.5 pounds to go!

Weigh In #16

Oops! I completely forgot to post my weigh in for this week! Bad blogger. Tut tut.

Well I lost 1.5 pounds, taking me down below 190 and leaving me with less than 50 pounds to lose. Finally! I was slightly disappointed with my loss, until I remember that I'd had about 135 syns. So really I should have gained. The majority of those naughty little syns were consumed on a night of dinner, drinks and debauchery with my friends Tash. It was completely and utterly worth it though.

I'm off to Edinburgh this weekend and then off out for my parent's 40th anniversary meal on Monday. So I am dreading weigh in already!

Must stay strong. Must stay strong. Must stay strong!

Starting Weight: 227 pounds
Current Weight: 189.5 pounds
Weight Loss This Week: 1.5 pounds
Total Weight Loss: 37.5 pounds
Target Weight: 140 pounds

 49.5 pounds to go!

Size 12

Today I bought a skirt. It's a SIZE 12.

Actually I bought two in a size 12 and one in a size 14.

This is unbelieveable.

I haven't been a size 12 since I was at school. Bizarrely, despite losing quite a lot of weight, I didn't think that I'd dropped any dress sizes. Admittedly my work clothes (in sizes 16 and 18) are hanging off me but I just didn't consider that I might be able to buy a smaller size. Years of conditioning myself to head straight for the biggest size in the shop has obviously made me crazy.

I picked up the size 16s and was about to head for the changing rooms when I had second thoughts and grabbed smaller sizes. I was in shock when they fitted. I still am.

Admittedly the size 12s probably only fit because of the style of skirt (elasticated waist and jersey type material) but I'm still over the bloody moon!

My credit card is crying as we speak.

Weigh In # 15

I'm astonished that I've lost 3 pounds this week. I was praying for 1 pound! Mainly because I had two nights of drinking at the weekend, although I did stick to gin and slimline tonic. Oh, and I did write down every single syn. My willpower has gone into overdrive recently and I'm crediting this loss to that!

Two examples:

1) I found the most incredible cookie recipe. I then proceeded to make two big batches of gorgeous chewy cookies. One was milk chocolate and ginger and the other was brazil nut, ginger and pecan. They were incredible. The old me would probably have eaten the whole lot. But I didn't. I had two cookies from each batch. And, again, I counted the syns.

2) I was out for lunch with some friends on Sunday. At a bar that does incredible burgers with mountains of shoestring fries and coleslaw. I had a chicken salad, no dressing. It killed me but it was worth it to lose 3 pounds!

I am officially in the zone.


Starting Weight: 227 pounds
Current Weight: 191 pounds
Weight Loss This Week: 3 pounds
Total Weight Loss: 36 pounds
Target Weight: 140 pounds

51 pounds to go!

Picture perfect?

Ooh thankyou so much for all the positive feedback on the last post. It's nice to know that what I'm writing is of use to some of you! If there are ever any questions you'd like to ask me then feel free! My email address is over on the right there and I'll always find the time to reply, although it might take me a little while. I can't profess to be an expert on weight loss or Slimming World but I do have years (and years, and years!) worth of experience of numerous diets so I know what tends to work (and what definitely doesn't).

I'm going to try and start posting here a little more regularly. I'd particularly like to post some of my favourite recipes and little tricks I've found that really seem to speed up my weight loss. If there is anything else you'd like to see on SGW then drop me a line and it shall be done!

With this in mind I thought I'd show you a couple of pictures of myself. One from the start of this particular weight loss journey in December 2009 (in fact I think I actually put on about another 7 pounds after this was taken) and one from Barcelona, taken about a month ago.

You might need to click on the picture to see it a bit larger to get the full effect. I think I look quite different though. I know they're completely different photographs but look how fat my face is in the first one! And my arms! Oh, my big fat arms! Thankfully they're reducing in size quite nicely now.

I've actually lost about another 7 pounds since the Barcelona photo was taken too, so I'm hopefully looking even more different.