Weigh-In Week 30

Only slightly dissapointed with a 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg) Gain.

No awards this week.

That brings the total to 7 stone 13 lbs (111 lbs / 50.35 kg).

Started at 28 stone 13 pounds (405 lbs / 183.71 kg)
Currently 20 stone 12.5 pounds (292.5 lbs / 132.68 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) (Achieved this 04/08/2011)

3rd Short Term Target 18 stone (252 lbs / 114.31 kg) (hope to reach this by 04/12/2011) This is also my Running weight target as suggested by the Podiatrist.
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
Week 24: 9 lbs (4.08 kg)
Week 25: 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
Week 26: 5.5 lbs (2.49 kg)
Week 27: 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
Week 28: 0.5 lbs (0.23 kg)
Week 29: 11.5 lbs (5.22 kg)
Week 30: 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg) GAIN

Slight dissapointment with the gain this week, but (here come the excuses! :P):
 1. it was my birthday, and whiel I don't necessairly celebrate my birthday in a big way at all, I do "treat myself" with food (ate out on the night and a slice of cake after.
2. Saturday and Monday were Sherwoods Pines days. Saturday with Mike and the boys, Karen packed sandwiches for lunch. 3 slices of bread later..... :( Monday was with the family, Karen packed sandwiches. 4 slices of bread later..... :( Bread and I are not friends!
3. The week after a big loss is often a difficult 1 to have a good loss on, so with points 1 and 2 added to this weeks pressure, I was almost fighting a losig battle!
It could have been soooo much worse though, but My awesome exercise routine and all the riding in the forest probably limited the damage! :)

Goals achieved this week:
1. On Tuesday morning I set a new personal best 5 km time of 39 min 22 seconds, not only beating my last PB by over a minute, but eventually dropping below the 40 min mark (average pace of < 8 min / sec)! I was sooo happy to achieve it! Literally punched my fists in the air! I have been chasing a time of sub 40 min for about 3 or 4 months now, although I was held back by a very long bout of tendonitis!
2. I have passed the 100,000 Calories burned mark! Since starting my exercise in February walking a mere 200m a day, I have burned a massive total of 100k calories! :o That is the equivalent of 34 lbs of fat! :) Yay me!

Goals for this week:
1. Back to normal 100% Food optimization. No Holidays and no birthdays in the way to distract me! YAY Back to normal life again!
2. I have a charity track cycle tomorrow night and I have set my self a target of averaging 24 km/h over the 2 hours that I am allowed on the track. While that may seem slow, it is faster than my fastest average speed which I only improved today from 23.3 km/h to 23.7 km/h. I do however have the benefit of what should be a nice smooth surface, no traffic or pedestrians, and no intersections to navigate/wait at, so fairly confident my target is attainable. :)
3. Saturday will see me out at Sherwood Pines again, burning up the Red Route. I have set a target to do it 4 times Saturday which will be a total of about 52 km of single track mountain biking! :D Saturday will also be my first recording of "Mountain Biking" stats on Runkeeper as I've been realising how the Trail riding has been ruining my average weekly stats! It will cause a drop in my weekly cycling distance, but should give a more true reflection of my weekly cycling stats and at the same time allow me to track my Trail riding stats. :)
4. Monday I am planning on to recording "Running" stats on Runkeeper again. I have been keeping my unofficial runs on Mondays recorded as walks so they counted as part of my walking targets (distance), however from Monday, due to my improved pace an the comfort I have been experiencing while running, I've decided to record it as an official run so I can start setting some running targets. The first "long term" target is to get my time below 35 minutes which is an average pace of 7 min / km.

Looking forward to what should be a good week week. I set a mini target of 4 lbs. Initially I wanted to set it at 1.5 lbs to lose at least what I gained this week, but I think 4 lbs is achievable considering my gain, and how well / uncomplicated this week is looking! Happy Slimming!