Weigh-In Week 23

This day was always going to arrive. 2 lbs (0.91 kg) Gain! Very dissapointed, but it was unrealistic to think I was going to go all the way to 14 stone (90 kg) without a gain along the way.

No Awards this week! :(

 

That brings the total to 5 stone 13 lb (83 lbs / 37.65 kg).
Started at 28 stone 13 pounds (405 lbs / 183.71 kg)
Currently 23 stone 0 pounds (322 lbs / 146.06 kg)
1st Short Term Target 26 stone (364 lbs / 165.11 kg) (Achieved this 18/04/2011)
2nd Short Term Target 22 stone (308 lbs / 139.71 kg) (Should reach this by 18/08/2011)
Long Term Target 14 stone (196 lbs / 88.9 kg) (hope to reach this by 01/02/2013)

 

The losses have gone as follows:

Week 1: 4.5 lbs (2.27 kg)

Week 2: 3 lbs (1.14 kg)

Week 3: 6 lbs (2.72 kg)
Week 4: 4 lbs (1.81 kg)
Week 5: 5.5 lbs (2.5 kg)
Week 6: 2 lbs (0.9 kg)
Week 7: 2 lbs (0.91 kg)
Week 8: 6 lbs (2.72 kg)
Week 9: Maintain
Week 10: 5.5 lbs (2.5 kg)
Week 11: 7 lbs (3.2 kg)
Week 12: 3 lbs (1.36 kg)
Week 13: 3 lbs (1.36 kg)
Week 14: 5.5 lbs (2.49 kg)
Week 15: Maintain
Week 16: 8 lbs (3.63 kg)
Week 17: 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
Week 18: 4 lbs (1.81 kg)
Week 19: 8.5 lbs (3.86 kg)
Week 20: Maintain
Week 21: 4.5 lbs (2.04 kg)
Week 22: 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
Week 23: 2 lbs (0.91 kg) GAIN

Ok, so I had a gain ..... I'm pretty dissapointed, but everyone warned this would eventually happen, and I'm just glad it happened when i know of a couple things I can put the blame on. So here are my "Weak excuses" :P
1. Tuesday I went to London for some late night work which meant I was busy and awake and ended up having 4 meals that day. One of them though, the 4th meal is excuse no 2, which is pretty bad! :(
2. KFC chicken on my way out of London. I completely miss judged how much dinner to take with me, and really should have had somethign to eat before leaving. Either way it left me hungry after the work on my way out at 1:30am with not many options. Instead of trying to find a 24hr supermarket and find some fruit or something healthy, I tookt he easy unhealthy option and bought KFC. My only saving grace was just eating the chicken. No Fiillet burger and no fries.

3. Wrecked sleeping patterns form the late night work on Tuesday. I find getting a good nights sleep helps my weightloss. Tuesday night I got 3 hours in the driver seat of my car at the service. I don't knwo why I didnt sleep when i got home...it seemed like a good idea to just work as long in the day as I could, then have a nap and get back to a usual sleep cycle. Instead I worked all day, then crashed in bed at 17:30, then awake at about 22:30 then back to sleep at 03:00. For most of the rest of the week I only got about 5 hours sleep a night. I'm eventually getting back to a healthy 7 or 8 hours a night in the last 3 days.
4. For most of last week i didn't use my compression socks and the dodgy left leg with all the problems was fairly swollen come Sunday. Only Today is it getting back to normal size. I imagine the swelling adds weight?
5. Most of you will not only know by now, but have taken the oppertunity to mock me about my incident with the tree......for those who have missed the oppertunity ..... On Saturday morning I set out on my Long Distance cycle. Aiming for a nice 40 km trip, thinking I might try get all the way around Nottingham. about 27 km in and ironically less than a mile from the Hospital, I had taken a short cut across the front of a traffic circle instead of going all the way around, and was attempting to at pace cross the relatively quiet road to be on the left hand side of the road again. Ahead was clear, and I started drifting toward the middle, while looking behind me to check for cars. Unfortunately there was a car, and I turned back toward the pavement, unfortunately between steering and my head turning back, I over steered, heading with a bit too directly toward the pavement. While I could have easily lifted my front wheel onto the pavement and carried on going, unfortunately at this particular point, Nottingham City Council had decided it was a good place to plant a tree.....about 50 years ago, so, unable to steer to avoid it, I went crashing into this massive tree shoulder first! I didn't lose conciousness, but I was stunned and in serious pain. I ended up getting taken to the hospital in an abulance that a passer by called for X-Rays and a check up. Luckily I managed to come out of it with no broken bones and only minor injuries: Bump on my head (luckily I wear a helmet, but that was trashed and has since been binned), Bashed up shoulder (no ligaments torn by the looks of it), Bashed up thigh, a nice big open wound on my ankle, and scratches on my arm and leg, and lightly bashed ribs. So the excuse is that my Shoulder, leg and ribs are a bit swollen and I'm sure that adds some weight. ;) Please be sure you mock me on Facebook. Everyone else has! :)


So weak as they may be, I am sticking with those excuses. However, This hasn't demotivated me, and I am still focused and motivated to keep working toward 14 stone (90 kg). Also, my parents raised me well....I've fallen off, trust me I WILL be back on the Bike! :)

Goals for this week:
1. 100% Optimised eating this week! (No KFC!)
2. Super-Speed as much as I can! (Loving the Melon and Lemon!)
3. Still reduced, but regular and reasonable portions of carbs. (This has become easy and regular for me to manage now.)
4. No Cycling this week because of the shoulder, but will be walking 3 days this week at least. Went for a walk this morning and the leg was fine, but my back and shoulder (from my tree incident) were bothering me a little, but not enough to stop me from walking!

We going on our week holiday to Devon on Saturday, and while most Slimmers take their holidays off from slimming, I will be trying to continue to food optimise 100% and fit some holiday treats into my Daily/Weekly Syn allowance. I have even found 2 Slimming World Groups in Bideford Bay that I can go weigh in at on Tuesday.

We go away for a week to a different holiday resort every year. And every year I am too overweight and unfit to join in ALL the activities. While I am still very over-weight, I am at least 5 or 6 stone lighter than the last 6 - 8 years, and with all the exercise I have been getitng up to, I'm fit enough to join in on ALL the activities this year! :) For possibly the first time, I intend to have Happy Holidays! :)