Weigh-In Week 51

Good loss of 6 lbs (2.72kg) this week.

Awards this week:

11.5 Stone (161 lbs / 73.03 kg) award!



Started at 28 stone 13 pounds (405 lbs / 183.71 kg)
Currently 17 stone 5 pounds (243 lbs / 110.22 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 Various Celebrations
Week 47: 8.5 lbs (3.86 kg) GAIN Christmas
Week 48: 6.5 lbs (2.95 kg)
Week 49: 7.5 lbs (3.40 kg)
Week 50: 1 lbs (0.45 kg) GAIN
Week 51: 6 lbs (2.72 kg)

It's been a great week. Perfectly on plan, great amounts of intense exercise. I'm actually a little dissapointed to have only lost 6 lbs (2.72 kg). I felt like it could have been a double figure week! :P I realised last week that I was only 12 lbs (5.44 kg) away from losing 12 stone (168lbs / 76.20 kg) in 12 months (52 weeks)! So I desperately wanted to lose 8 or 9 lbs (3.63 or 4.08 kg) this week to set me up for a easy 3 or 4 lbs (1.36 or 1.81 kg) loss on week 52. Instead I've sliced the 12 lbs (5.44 kg) down the middle with a 6 lbs (2.72 kg) loss, leaving me another 6 lbs (2.72 kg) to lose this week! Oh Boy! :S

Although it's not on the official Slimming World Scale yet, after my run this evening before weigh-in I got on my home scales and for the first time dropped below 110 kg (17 stone 2 lbs / 242 lbs). It's such an amazing feeling passing these mile stones that quite honestly for years now have been something that was pointless to even hope for!

I've actually had quite an emotional week this week. I have ended up crying 2 out of 4 runs this week. I seem to be spending a lot of time reflecting on the last year while running and can't seem to stop the tears! On Saturday I ran past the Hovis Bakery and the smell reminded me of driving past Star Bakery early mornings enroute to the beach front for a run/swim with my parents. Then realised that I was only 2 weeks away from seeing my Dad again for the first time in 6 years! Then worked out that it was exactly a year since I started losing weight for that exact reason....to go see my Dad! The timing is so weird that it seems like a dream! The results that I live with ona  daily basis seem like a dream! As I pounded my way down the forest path, heart racing at about 140 bpm, EVERY part of me realised...this was no dream it was all real!!! Tonight as I ran in the dark I thought about what it was going to be like to see my Mom and Dad at the airport in Jhb when I land....again tears! It actually all sounds so silly as I type it, but I am just a big over flowing bagfull of good emotions at the moment!

Positives and Negatives of the week:
+ It felt really easy to be on plan this week despite a number of temptations.
+ 11.5 stone (161 lbs / 73.03 kg) lost!
+ Dropped below 110kg! (17 stone 2 lbs / 242 lbs)
- Wanted to lose more, but meh, I'll take it! :P

Goals for this week:
1) Strict 100% Food Optimising!
2) Mega Exercise week!
3) Lose 6 lbs! Need to get that 12 stone award next week!