Weigh-In Week 47

Better late than never....Are you ready for it? A massive 8.5 lbs GAIN this week! :(

No Awards this week.

Started at 28 stone 13 pounds (405 lbs / 183.71 kg)
Currently 18 stone 10 pounds (262 lbs / 118.84 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) (Achieved this 08/12/2011)

4th Short Term Target 16 stone (224 lbs / 101.6 kg) (hope to reach this by 29/03/2012)

Long Term Target 14 stone (196 lbs / 88.9 kg) (hope to reach this by 30/06/2012)

The losses have gone as follows:

Feb11 (4wks): 17.50 lbs (7.94 kg)
Mar11 (4wks): 15.50 lbs (7.03 kg)
Apr11 (4wks): 15.50 lbs (7.03 kg)
May11 (5wks): 18.00 lbs (8.16 kg)
Jun11 (4wks): 17.00 lbs (7.71 kg)
Jul11 (4wks): 10.00 lbs (4.54 kg)
Aug11 (4wks): 19.00 lbs (8.62 kg)
Sept11 (5wks): 14.00 lbs (6.35 kg)
Oct11 (5wks): 6.50 lbs (2.95 kg)
Nov11 (4wks): 13 lbs (5.90 kg)
Week 43: 6 lbs (2.72 kg)
Week 44: 1.5 lbs (0.68 kg)
Week 45: Maintain
Week 46: 2 lbs (0.91 kg) GAIN
Week 47: 8.5 lbs (3.86 kg) GAIN

I went completely off plan for Christmas and the GAIN is thoroughly deserved, but I can't really say it was worth it. I enjoyed as I always have over Christmas: Crisps, Bread, Chocolates, Toffees, Peanut Brittle, Ice-Cream, Trifle, Custard and even had some Crackling with my Christmas Dinner! The meats were not particularly lean, and I enjoyed some Gravy. Although I had some Salad and fruit meals, there was a lot of between meal snacking where lately I would have had fruit, over Christmas I was having fattening Snacks, including Bread....My Nemesis!! :( Sadly even after the shock of the Gain, I still allowed myself 1 more day's "BREAK" for New Years Eve and enjoyed our usual Chinese New Years Eve meal. So, now it's all over and a LINE HAS BEEN DRAWN....It's time to get back to plan and firstly, lose these extra pounds ASAP with some seriously strict Food Optimising and Exercise, secondly, break these cravings to snack on bread and crisps. Once thats done I can focus on losing the rest before 30 June 2012 for Karen's Brithday.

I have adjusted some of my targets time schedules because: `
1) December completely derailed previous goals with a net effect of a 3 lbs (1.36 kg) GAIN.
2) Igoring December, if I look at the previous 2 months, October and November, things my losses have definitely slowed down.
I will continue to lose as quick as I can, but having goals that were purely based on the initial rate of weightloss which is not faster than my current rate of weightloss is not goign to help. I think I have kept my New goals challenging enough to keep me interested, but reasonable considing where I am in the overall plan.

Positives and Negatives of the week:
+ I had a great weekend with the family.
+ The boys, the XBOXes and I have bonded! ;)
+ Karen and I have enjoyed the movies! :)
- That was one hectic GAIN! :(
+ Sad to say, but if I had stayed off plan all week like I did over the weekend, it would have been a LOT worse!

Goals for this week:
1) Strict 100% Food Optimising!
2) Get over the snacky cravings!
3) Back to usual Cycling and Run schedule working towards my Duathlon. (11 Weeks! :S)

I'm hoping for at least a 5 lbs loss this week and hopefully more next week! Have to pull these GAINed pounds back!