Well I finally did it!
2.5lbs off this week, taking me past my 12st 7lb target by half a pound!
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The last time I was this weight was in 2007. I'd been taking Xenical, monitored via the doctors surgery, and although I was at my lowest adult weight, it was never my intention to quit or even maintain at 12st 7lbs. I just happened to meet the wrong man, and started a relationship that revolved around food, and lots of it.
Obviously the weight slowly crept back on, and by the time we'd split up and I'd got my life back together (involving some comfort eating and even more social eating/drinking) I was 6 stone heavier.
So it's taken me a couple of years of messing around with Xenical, Weight Watchers, Calorie Counting and finally Exante, to finally get back to what I was back then.
And how does it feel? Bloody brilliant
To turn the clock back, and finally know that I'm not re-losing weight that I've lost and gained so many times before, is just a lovely feeling.
I always thought that if I ever got back to this point again, that I'd stop. I remember feeling confident and comfortable in my own skin at my lowest weight, and I could barely even imagine getting back to this point, never mind surpassing it.
But now, since I've started getting close to my goal weight, I've been feeling that I'm not done yet. I'm obviously still 'obese' at 12st 6.5lbs, and I know it sounds daft but I just get the feeling that if I told people that I'd got to my target weight, they'd think 'Oh is that it? You're still a fairly big lass...shouldn't you carry on for a while?' Not that anybody would say that to me (or think it probably) but in a way I feel like fraud having a goal that's a lot of people's start weight!
So I've got my London trip coming up, followed by a week off plan....so I know I'll be back over target afterwards.
Then it's back to Exante to re-lose the gain and hopefully a bit more before I go to Chester with The Man in April.
I think now I've met this big target my goals from now on will be small - It'd be nice to get into the overweight category, which is something like 12st 2lbs for me. So that's the next next plan.
All in good time though...The Man is planning to stay on Exante until about June, so there's no reason why I can't carry on that long with him.
once I've dealt with any London weight gain, I'll probably slow down a little - allow myself to be a bit more sociable where food/alcohol is concerned. But you're not getting rid of me yet!!!
Onto other news, The Man had a little gain this week (1lb). Things are still tough for him, and so he's been having a few added extras - chicken, nuts, cocktail sausages, bits of chicken/beef or whatever.
We spoke about it earlier though, and in my opinion, it would be impossible for him to gain a pound of fat by eating Exante products and a couple of extras each day. It's more likely that the salt in the nuts and processed meats has made him retain water - hence the gain.
He doesn't mind even if it is a true gain though (maybe the cals/fat in nuts?) - as he said himself, he knows that he can lose 4-5lbs on a good week, so he can easily pull it back.
And to be honest, it's so easy to completely blow a diet like Exante when life gets in the way, so he's doing brilliantly to stay vaguely within the rules.
And I think that's all my news! Sorry for the essay folks!
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