Silly Season!

Yes its here- the silly season- or rather, I am silly in the season! Lots of "silly" food choices, but not too stressed, as I have still done plenty of exercise and made good food choices most of the time, and have managed to maintain two weeks in a row.

I've signed up for a new contract at my gym which includes 20 personal training sessions for the year, so hope to use them for a New Year weight loss blitz. The goal is to be 68kg for when I go to England on the 18th of May to visit Scoop's (bf) rellos. I sat down and did the maths yesterday and worked out that if I lose 0.5kg each week until then, I will be 0.5kg off my goal when I leave- so if I have a few weeks of good losses, I should easily get to goal! If I do get to goal, I would have lost 20.5kg since they last saw me.... wow!!!

I went clothes shopping on Tuesday night and bought some strappy summery tops and shorts- types of clothes I have actively avoided wearing since I was teenager because of my size! I look pretty darn cool in them if I do say so myself. I usually hate trying on clothes and checking out my bum in the changeroom mirrors, but for the first time in my weight loss journey, I can really start to see a difference in that area... bring on 2007 and 68kg!!

No loss- but I should expect it

No loss this week, but to be positive, there was no gain either! I just wasn't dedicated to the No Count principles this week, so I know what I have to do to lose next week- eat better!

I have some challenges this week, in that I am going to a wedding reception in Newcastle on Saturday night. While I have decided that I will probably let myself off the hook for the reception what I will be aiming to do is to stick to No Count for the rest the weekend. I tend to just let loose for a whole weekend if I am going away- I figure it will be a lot less damage if I only relax the principles for one meal!

The rest of the week leading up to weigh-in is very normal, so should be ok to be disciplined for the rest of the week.

I've started the "Couch to 5K" running program yesterday, and it felt fab! Looking forward to the end of the 10 weeks when I can just walk out the front door and go running for 30 minutes. If you told me as a teenager that I would have a go at running off my own bat, I wouldn't have believed you!

Well what do you expect!

I lost another 0.5kg this week, which is good and bad... I keep thinking I should be losing a 1kg each week, but I continue to be a bit "relaxed" with my healthy eating, so as my title says, what do I expect? Weight loss to be easy?

I should be happy I am losing weight still! I often think about the people I read on the Weightwatchers message boards who hit plataeus, who try their hearts out to lose the kgs but do not see their weight change- I would find that so disheartening! They are truly strong to keep at it when they don't get the results.

On the positive side, I am on track to get to my revised Xmas goal of 77kg. I really have to be disciplined this week, as the week leading up to Xmas is fraught with temptations! If I can restrain myself this week, I should still be ok to splurge a little at Xmas.

Another point to note this week is that I now have exactly 10kg left to go to get to goal!!!! Woohoo!

Slow and Steady Wins the Race

I lost 0.5kg this week, which was what I was aiming for (considering I did have a splurge for my birthday last Friday) but I am still mildly disappointed. I jumped on the scales yesterday, and it said I was on track for a 1kg loss. But I guess thats the pitfall of daily weighing- there are going to be times when your body does vary, and you're sometimes going to disappointed on official weigh-in day if your saw a better loss earlier in the week.

I'm finding healthy eating pretty easy for me at the moment, so I hope to lose 0.5 kg each week leading up to Xmas, so the goal is to be 77kg for Christmas day! I think that's pretty realistic. I don't have too many days when I would be seriously tempted by bad food planned before Christmas, so fingers crossed I get there. I am just so excited to be in the 70s still- such a long time since I was in this territory!!! Hopefully over Christmas I hope to get some pictures up on this blog which would be cool.